Jack Ma, born in 1964 in Hangzhou, China, faced over 30 job rejections and academic setbacks before founding Alibaba in 1999 ...

Japan's decision to make high school tuition virtually free, even for private institutions, is raising alarm among educators ...

Donald Keene's journey tracing the footsteps of haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in Basho's masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi," which Keene later trans･･･ ...

A rising number of Japanese schools are teaching many classes in English or other foreign languages. We take a look at why.

The first night school in west Japan's Shiga Prefecture opened in April 2025 -- one of a growing number in Japan providing ...

Advocates say the bills will give parents more power over their children’s schools. Critics say they don’t give parents anything they didn’t already have and will only strain their relationship with ...

For months, the family of Stephen James Hubbard could not find him in the Russian prison system. New text messages cast doubt ...

The Clay County School District said it is reevaluating its spending as it faces a potential $10 million budget shortfall ...

Soprano Nina Stemme sung her 126th and final performance of Isolde in Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” with the Philadelphia ...

Will we give this current administration our “anticipatory obedience”? Or will we scream into the night while this train we ...

As library/media specialist at Carrie Busey Elementary School in Savoy, Mandee Crow sees students evolve through the books they read. In her three years on the job, she has worked to curate those ...

“It was during back-to-school night, which was also the night of a Dodgers’ game,” said Dunsmore Principal Kelly Worley. “We found most parents didn’t come [to back-to-school night because] their ...