'Sick-out' closes more than 50 Detroit schools

DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- Hundreds of Detroit teachers stayed home Wednesday, forcing more than 50 schools to close in what school officials described as a sick-out to protest a temporary pay cut.

Schools urged to take bird flu seriously

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's schools, recognized incubators of respiratory diseases among children, are being told to plan for the possibility of an outbreak of bird flu.

Colleges educating more with less money

(AP) -- Just five years ago, public colleges and universities enjoyed their highest per-student levels of state and local government support in at least 25 years. By 2005, thanks to stagnant budgets and exploding demand, that figure had plummeted to a 25-year low.

Student group files suit against school district

DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- A student organization sued a school district Monday, alleging officials prohibited them from posting information about their Bible study group on the district's Web site.

Gift enables Columbia to open brain study center

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Columbia University said Monday it plans to build a center dedicated to studying the brain and behavior using a $200 million gift that is the largest received by the institution.

Archbishop: Don't teach creationism

LONDON, England (AP) -- The archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of the world's Anglicans, says he is opposed to teaching creationism in schools.

Rural college pushes iPod use for lectures

MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (AP) -- The campus of Georgia College & State University boasts traditional college fare: spacious greens, historic architecture and a steady stream of students with the familiar white headphones of iPods dangling from their ears.

Teachers resign amid cheating scandal

MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- A growing scandal over teachers who paid to get credit for courses they never took has cost nearly three dozen educators their jobs, and hundreds of others are being investigated.

Shedding light on slavery in the north

OYSTER BAY, New York (AP) -- A group of mostly white seventh and eighth graders sleepily sauntered into their school library one recent morning, soon to get a surprise awakening about a part of their town's history they never knew existed.

Campus artists get top-line facilities

WILLIAMSTOWN, Massachusetts (AP) -- The scientists got their laboratories, the jocks their plush weight rooms and climbing walls. Now, at last, the massive campus building boom of the last 15 years is getting around to the performing arts.

Cheat sheet for parents on testing

(CNN Student News) -- MEAP, ITBS, CRCT, TAKS. There are scores of acronyms in educational testing, but these four-letter terms stand for far more than No. 2 pencils and pages of tiny circles.

Cheat sheet for parents on testing

(CNN Student News) -- MEAP, ITBS, CRCT, TAKS. There are scores of acronyms in educational testing, but these four-letter terms stand for far more than No. 2 pencils and pages of tiny circles.

Cheat sheet for parents on testing

(CNN Student News) -- MEAP, ITBS, CRCT, TAKS. There are scores of acronyms in educational testing, but these four-letter terms stand for far more than No. 2 pencils and pages of tiny circles.

Cheat sheet for parents on testing

(CNN Student News) -- MEAP, ITBS, CRCT, TAKS. There are scores of acronyms in educational testing, but these four-letter terms stand for far more than No. 2 pencils and pages of tiny circles.

Cheat sheet for parents on testing

(CNN Student News) -- MEAP, ITBS, CRCT, TAKS. There are scores of acronyms in educational testing, but these four-letter terms stand for far more than No. 2 pencils and pages of tiny circles.

No school, no books, no teacher's dirty looks

(CNN) -- It's a child's dream. Wake up whenever you want, with nobody telling you what to do and when to do it. And here's the kicker: No school to rush off to.

No school, no books, no teacher's dirty looks

(CNN) -- It's a child's dream. Wake up whenever you want, with nobody telling you what to do and when to do it. And here's the kicker: No school to rush off to.

No school, no books, no teacher's dirty looks

(CNN) -- It's a child's dream. Wake up whenever you want, with nobody telling you what to do and when to do it. And here's the kicker: No school to rush off to.

No school, no books, no teacher's dirty looks

(CNN) -- It's a child's dream. Wake up whenever you want, with nobody telling you what to do and when to do it. And here's the kicker: No school to rush off to.

No school, no books, no teacher's dirty looks

(CNN) -- It's a child's dream. Wake up whenever you want, with nobody telling you what to do and when to do it. And here's the kicker: No school to rush off to.