An outspoken Democrat and former Republican governor of Virginia are advocating a public-private approach to paying for costly school renovations and say...

Virginia Commonwealth University has been awarded a $190,580 grant to work with Richmond groups to reduce poverty in the region. The Jessie Ball duPont...

More than 20 percent of community college students in Virginia do not have access to federal loans, according to a national study. The report by the Project...

The Steward School has always had the arts at the core of its curriculum. Now arts are the core of the school’s fall festival, too. The first fine-arts...

The Values Institute of America has announced the winners of its “Value of Sports” essay contest. Colin Smith of Moseley was the first-place...

The James River High School field hockey team will hold an alumni game Saturday as part of a daylong carnival to raise money for a former player. Carolyn...

School buses were pulling up empty yesterday at Tuckahoe Elementary School, and people couldn’t have been prouder. To celebrate International Walk...

Virginia Commonwealth University has named six finalists for dean of its Business School, including the interim dean and the retiring president of Disneyland...

The village now has a school. Classes started yesterday for about 100 students at South University in West Broad Village—nearly triple the number...

Sarah Fraher, principal at Elizabeth Davis Middle School, and her teachers used to consume hours going through Standards of Learning test data manually...

William Ashanti Hobbs IV, an eighth-grader at Elizabeth Davis Middle School, is not into trumpets and percussion, so he did not sign up for music education...

Higher education has slipped as a national priority even though it is key to both the country’s economic recovery and its standing as a world leader,...

Virginia receives $1.39 in state tax revenue for every dollar it invests in public higher education, says a study by a business coalition that is campaigning...

Virginia Commonwealth University’s library has acquired its 2 millionth volume: a Spider-Man comic featuring President Barack Obama. A public event...

Charles J. Phillips says he didn’t pay for his college education and you shouldn’t have to, either. Phillips, who wrote a book about how he...

George Washington wrote down this rule to guide his behavior: “Undertake not to Teach your equal in the art himself Proffesses; it Savours of arrogancy.“...

The Year of the Environment begins Thursday at Virginia Commonwealth University with a two-day E-Festival that includes a sustainability symposium and...

Carolyn Wilkerson worried yesterday that something was wrong when she heard her principal’s serious tone over the intercom asking teachers to take...

Carolyn Wilkerson, a science and math teacher at Tomahawk Creek Middle School in Chesterfield, was named the Central Virginia region 2010 teacher of the...

A program that helps foster-care youths continue their education has received a $300,000 grant from the Virginia Tobacco Commission. The two-year grant...

The state’s health and education agencies have produced online videos to help inform parents and educators about how to prevent the spread of the...

PETERSBURG—Thadd Williams is an aspiring filmmaker living in Los Angeles. His road to the mecca of the movie industry began 10 years ago at a brand-new...

A free workshop on how to pay for college will be held Saturday at John Tyler Community College’s Chester campus. The workshop for students and parents...

Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, will speak at the second annual Great Expectations Education Forum next...