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New Common Core teaching standards mean new standardized exams. NPR's Cory Turner took one himself and reports on what's changed.

Gov. Rick Scott is asking three-dozen parents, educators and business leaders to look at state education standards, testing, the state school grading…

Florida’s combative former House speaker is going to become the state’s education commissioner. The State Board of Education voted unanimously on Monday...

Even as overall aid increases, the share of that money going to education has stagnated — leaving least developed countries in the lurch.

State Education Commissioner Pam Stewart said Tuesday that she will be stepping down from her post on Jan. 8.

Susan Choi departs from research-heavy books to write about people and relationships — and winds up writing about love and sex. My Education looks at a graduate student who doesn't learn what she anticipated.

New rankings released by U.S. News and World Report say Florida is the number one state in the nation for higher education.

The U.S. Department of Education says it is launching a civil rights investigation into whether the Pinellas County School District is systematically...

Hillsborough County voters approved an education amendment that will provide hundreds of millions in additional school funding for over the next 10 years.

Pakistan's isolated Swat Valley is ground zero for a quiet experiment by the Pakistani army: a little-known program aimed at re-educating thousands of young men who were taken in by the Taliban. Using international funds and a contingent of army officers, Pakistan is trying to turn would-be terrorists into law-abiding citizens.