Xuaco Pascual, a senior at Cosby High School in Chesterfield County, plans to make aerospace engineering a career and become an astronaut. He is taking...

Cosby High School senior Sabrina Nordan said she knows several people who try to hide their depression when they should be treating it. She was reacting...

Erika Stith didn’t know anyone when she arrived at the Capital One complex in western Henrico County for an all-day leadership forum two years ago....

Students from Virginia and four other states are putting their analytical and engineering skills to the test at a two-day robotics competition in Richmond....

University of Richmond professor Woody Holton is one of three winners of the 2010 Bancroft Prize for his biography “Abigail Adams.“ Holton...

The dean of the School of Education has been named Virginia Commonwealth University’s interim provost. Beverly Warren also will serve as interim...

Rick Hurley, the University of Mary Washington’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, will serve as acting president when Judy Hample...

Virginia Commonwealth University’s provost will step down from the university’s top academic post on April 1 but will remain at VCU with other...

Representatives from the Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts will have to delay sending acceptance letters to parents. The Richmond School Board still...

The Henrico County School Board yesterday unanimously approved a $402.4 million operating budget for fiscal 2011 that cuts more than 100 positions and...

The Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts will hold its first lottery for admission tonight at the school, 3411 Semmes Ave. in South Richmond. The charter...

The Henrico County School Board will approve a budget tonight that would increase class sizes and eliminate more than 100 positions. The board delayed...

The Henrico County School Board will approve a budget tonight that would increase class sizes and eliminate more than 100 positions. The board delayed...

Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts will have its first lottery for admission tomorrow night.

After campus demonstration, smaller group continues protest — with police escort — in orderly march to State Capitol, chanting “Down...

WILLIAMSBURG—With state financial support declining, the College of William and Mary is considering increasing its freshman class this fall to boost...

COLONIAL HEIGHTS—The crowd was sparse, but the conversation was lively. Input was flowing from those with a vested interest in the city’s school...

A couple of Chesterfield County supervisors are questioning the school district’s plan to provide netbooks for all teachers and administrators and...

HOPEWELL—First exams, then snow, slowed progress last month for a group of Hopewell High School students determined to design a cost-effective, user-friendly...

Henrico County school officials are preparing to change nontraditional programs that serve at-risk students. A review of the school system’s Department...

Virginia Commonwealth University is holding a tornado preparedness exercise this morning, which will mean the sounding of sirens on the Richmond school’s...

Today the final third of 33 school-division spelling bee results from the Richmond region are being published, arranged in alphabetical order by school...

The champions from 33 school divisions will compete this weekend in the Richmond Times-Dispatch Regional Spelling Bee to determine who will represent the...

Robbie Wendell is more than just a teacher within the Cumberland County school system. Part of the day, he works with at-risk high school students in dropout...

Caroline Hendrick, a third-grader at Crenshaw Elementary School, loves math and recently reveled in the opportunity to apply her knowledge at a Food Lion...

Evans Adams Dao Narron Shook Oppenheim Lund Fulani Campbell Reynolds Rosenbaum The winners of 33 school-division bees will face off Saturday at 1 p.m....

Hurley, who was to have retired May 1, will remain in his current position, the board of visitors announced Tuesday. Judy Hample and the board said last...

Columnist George Will is speaking Thursday at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland. His lecture on the Washington political scene will begin at 7:30 p.m....

Virginia Commonwealth University will conduct a tornado-preparedness exercise Tuesday, with students posing as storm victims as part of an emergency-response...