It was a good ride while it lasted. But for the Prince George's County school system and the Maryland General Assembly, the days of easy money for public education are over.

Rocked by a fresh outbreak of anti-government violence, officials in China's far western Xinjiang region are urging expanded free education to staunch support for Islamic separatists.

Florida ranks 10th in the nation in overall quality of education, according to the annual report card released by Education Week on Wednesday.

Pregnant women with low levels of education are nearly twice as likely as their more educated peers to give birth prematurely, researchers from the Netherlands report.

JEFFERSON CITY — D. Kent King, the state education commissioner who raised the bar for thousands of Missouri students, died Wednesday at his home in Rolla after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 65.

The Kentucky Board of Education appointed an interim commissioner and decided to hire a national search firm to help it select the state's next education commissioner during a special meeting yesterday.

A bill that would restore money cut last year from Mississippi's higher education systems could set the stage for the Legislature's first battle over dipping into the state's rainy day fund to cover agency shortfalls.

Rocked by a fresh outbreak of anti-government violence, officials in China's far western Xinjiang region are urging expanded free education to staunch support for Islamic separatists. The appeal appeared to acknowledge that force alone will not vanquish pro-...