According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, has 39,437 pupils and 2,500 teachers.
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Georgia School District Hopes Mandatory Mandarin Classes Can Boost Graduation Rate
A Georgia county looks to the world’s second-largest economy to fix its education system
The School Ranking List Harvard Doesn’t Top
Think you’ll be making top dollar with that Harvard diploma hanging on your wall? Sure, the Cambridge, Mass. university topped U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of the best colleges in the nation (again), and is third …
LSU Evacuates Due to Bomb Threat
The Monday after three schools across the country evacuated due to bomb scares, Louisana State University follows suit.
And the Best College of 2013 Is…
U.S. News and World Report has released its Best Colleges list for 2013, which unsurprisingly looks a lot like last year’s list.
Chicago Teachers Go on Strike: 5 Things They’re Fighting For
Striking teachers in Chicago threaten to leave 400,000 students in the citywide school system idle, as well as challenge Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s ability to work with city labor.
Students Who Skip School Don’t Get the Consequences, Study Says
Teens who skip school are less likely to graduate and attend college, but they don’t see it that way. Plus, education news on a school shooting in Baltimore, an apparent suicide at Columbia University and a new kind of college ranking.
Harvard Accuses 125 Students of Cheating on Final Exam
Columbia University Incoming Freshman Student Dead in Apparent Suicide
The school year at Columbia University is off to a sad start after an incoming freshman student either fell or jumped to her death from her dorm on Monday.
History Wins As Norway’s 100-Year-Old Mystery Parcel Is Opened
And the prize worth waiting a century for was…
NYU’s Brilliant Design Solution to A Building’s Suicide Problem
After several students jumped to their death inside the library, the university renovated the 150-ft.-tall space to prevent further tragedies
ACT Scores Show High School Students Are Not Ready for College
This year’s ACT scores show that only 1 in 4 high school students are prepared for college in all four subject areas the test examines. Plus, education news on Hispanic enrollment and the college students most likely to be in debt.
