From vaping, the cost of supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow our series “WTOP Goes Back to School” on air and ...

A Detroit businessman is offering D.C. students cash in exchange for perfect attendance. Abner McWhorter III, chief executive officer of Detroit real estate firm Paramount Land Holding, said he will ...

In an effort to eliminate unexpected, non-tuition barriers that can often disrupt students’ educational pursuits, the Cuyahoga Community College Foundation has announced a donation of $1 million from ...

New trends take over social media in about as much time as it takes to make one post. When a man shared his thoughts on how grades don’t necessarily correlate with greatness, he had plenty of people ...

For many Cuyahoga Community College students, the more difficult test isn’t in the classroom — it’s finding enough money to cover food, housing or child care. A new $1 million gift from Medical Mutual ...

Lucy Messina and Easton Rapp are Southwestern Middle School’s recipients for this year’s Triple “C” award. The faculty nominates students who have shown “Character, Courage, and Commitment” throughout ...

More students in the District are reading on grade level than before the pandemic, according to test data shared Thursday. More than 37 percent of students scored proficient on standardized reading ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Statewide scores in the S.C. Ready test show some students in South Carolina continue to struggle.

D.C. Council member Adrian M. Fenty (D-Ward 4) said that "a voucher program would rob the public school system of some of its best and brightest pupils -- and some of its most committed parents" ...

Today, we remember the six D.C. students and teachers who were killed on 9/11 while on a plane for a field trip. 24 years ago, Leckie Elementary School teacher Hilda Taylor and student Bernard Brown, ...

Emma Yorty, left, and Zoey Wright, seventh-graders at Beth-Center Middle School, start the time-consuming process of cleaning the gravestone of a veteran at Beallsville Cemetery. The students are ...