education

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Carroll College has received a four-year, $1 million grant to work with Montana State University and three tribal colleges to study the effects of environmental changes on the spread of infectious diseases. The majority of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant will be used to support summer undergraduate research for six professors and up to 18 students at Carroll and the

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Former Montana Tech chancellor Frank Gilmore has been named the new president of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The foundation was established in 1986 in honor of the former U...

If you’ve ever listened to a member of Congress speak and felt like you were being addressed as a child, it’s not your imagination. A new study shows congresspeople now talk at a 10th grade level — a full grade lower than they did just seven years ago.

You might not think selling a soft drink during a school lunch period is that big of an issue, but the truth is it could cost a school thousands of dollars.

The people at Amazon have emerged yesterday with their annual list of the most well-read cities in America.

What’s a student to do when she can’t get into her desired college program? Sue her high school, of course.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — University of Montana administrators have sent letters to prospective students in an effort to increase contact with students who may be hesitating in their decision to attend following sexual assault reports. Interim Provost Perry Brown tells the Missoulian the school a month ago sent out the letters to let them know about the school's high-quality education...

A while back, we told you about the Jewish girls’ school in Brooklyn that instituted a Facebook ban for its students, saying using the social media site violated its religious tenets. Now an elementary school in Australia is following suit, but its demand that kids delete their Facebook pages has an entirely different reason: it’s an attempt to wipe out cyber-bullying.

A California judge has prosecutors scratching their heads after she allowed what they say is a dangerous criminal to remain free before trial as long as he reads at least an hour a day and writes book reports.

As a way to help promote healthy eating among children, US Rep. Jared Polis has introduced legislation which would redefine the Department of Agriculture’s classification of pizza as a vegetable in school lunches.