Missouri has passed a law making it illegal for state teachers to friend their students on Facebook.Governor Jay Nixon signed Missouri State Bill 54, which bans students and teachers from communicating and being "friends" on the social networking site. The law was created to prevent inappropriate relationships between children and teachers.

After two young moms recently abandoned their newborn babies -- one of whom did not survive -- New York officials are proposing that high school curriculum include lessons on what mothers can do if they give birth to a baby they don't want.

Redwood Heights Elementary School, in Oakland,  is in the hot-seat after the school decided to education students about gender diversity.

ASHBURNHAM (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - Parents in Ashburnham are questioning a school proposal to buy 150 new iPads for children in kindergarten.

NEWARK -- The Christina School District Board of Education heard Tuesday from several community members who held very different opinions about the board's decision regarding staff at two low-performing schools.

The rising cost of Higher Ed is getting some press.  

After leading the world in college graduates for decades, the United States has slipped to ninth, and a new initiative Vice President Joe Bidenannounced earlier this week aims to help reverse the trend.

WILMINGTON -- A tenured Widener Law School professor whom a faculty committee this month recommended against firing for using violent and potentially offensive imagery to describe a legal concept to his class is now facing a second formal inquiry on the same charges.

To improve its public schools, the United States should raise the status of the teaching profession by recruiting more qualified candidates, training them better and paying them more, according to a new report on comparative educational systems.

If you associate the era of the American Revolution with individual liberty, you're right in more ways than you probably realized. In the lead-up to the War of Independence and during the revolution itself, prosecutions for prostitution, sodomy, and drunkenness were rare. Divorce was easy. Women entered a wide range of professions. Members of different races mixed freely in raucous taverns.

"SEAFORD - When 15-year-old Memoree Adkins saw the envelope, she knew what was inside. "I started jumping up and down," Memoree said. The eighth-grade student at Seaford Middle School was accepted into a new high school program called Delaware New Tech Academy at Seaford Senior High School. She hopes it will help her learn more about a career in graphic arts. Her mother hopes the program will engage and prepare her daughter so that she's able to have a positive high school experience."

"Fairbanks researchers say they've uncovered the oldest cremated human remains ever discovered in northern North America at a site near the Tanana River in central Alaska."