A 14-year-old girl plunged to her death from an elite Upper East Side private school — and police are looking into whether it was a suicide or accidental fall.

Girls, on average, find more success at school than boys. The data are clear; the reasons behind it, less so. Are boys today simply less likely than girls to see the value of succeeding academically?

Chris Desmond receives funding from UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund Accelerating Achievement for Africa's Adolescents Hub,Grant/Award Number: ES/S008101/1 Kathryn Watt does ...

Francis Scott Key High School students will perform one of the most beloved and true-to-life stories about high school students in the spring musical “Mean Girls.”. “I don’t think I have ever, in my ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. When it came time for Ali Sweeney to send her oldest daughter, Anna, to middle school, she worried her child ...

Every year I choose a university student to accompany me on my win-a-trip journey, which is meant to highlight issues that deserve more attention. My 2024 winner was Trisha Mukherjee, a recent ...

Juana Corio Raymundo, 66, with her daughter Juana Brito Corio, 38, and granddaughter Cecilia, then 14, in their garden in the village of La Pista Nebaj, Quiché, Guatemala. "We are strong women in our ...

M.L. and S.M., 16 and 17, watched as their competing in girls sports sparked a raucous debate at their Riverside high school. The battle, echoed nationally this week, has made them feel targeted, they ...

Rachel Silver has received funding from the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Alyssa Morley has received funding for ...