Tallie Brinson warmed up on his trombone at summer band camp run by the Marching 100.

As New York’s governor promised to pursue a low-cost student loan program, it remained unclear how to set it up to ensure that it does not encourage unnecessary borrowing.

At Berea College, in Kentucky, the Ecovillage houses one-parent families. Josh Noah, 21, a senior Appalachian studies major from Mount Airy, N.C., fertilizing the Ecovillage’s vegetable beds.

Gov. David A. Paterson will seek a low-cost loan program to make New York more competitive with other states.

Sheldon Silver, left, the Assembly speaker, and Gov. David A. Paterson with Dean G. Skelos, the new Senate majority leader, on Sunday after a meeting.

Unconstitutional: The Supreme Court ruling that schools in Jefferson County, Ky., could no longer assign students solely by race has inspired a new approach to integration.

Newton Street School students during an awards ceremony, where they received certificates for their test performance.

The finding is a step toward forcing property owners to sell their land as part of eminent domain proceedings to make way for the expansion of Columbia University.

Charles B. Rangel

Graduation rates are widely considered among the most crucial indicators of whether a system is working, but New York State has not yet reported the percentage for the Class of 2007.

Tarshiba Clar, 17, of Miami, applies makeup before performing in “Hairspray.”

As fuel prices rise, thousands of students nationwide have suddenly decided to take college classes over the Internet.

Using a portable fingerprinting machine, U.S. consular officials were seeking to expedite the granting of study visas to three students in Gaza, despite Israeli concerns.

Jay O. Light, an expert in asset and risk management who has led the business school for the last three years, is one of at least three candidates being recruited as directors by the embattled bank.

To attract more veterans, Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio announced that the state would charge in-state tuition to all veterans attending college on the G.I. Bill.

Brandon Jennings, center, has signed with Arizona, but he is considering playing in Europe for a year.

DIGGING IN Michael J. Hogan will start his second school year as president of the University of Connecticut. In particular, he aims to improve standards at the graduate schools. “We’re supremely good among public universities and we’re on a track to get better,” he said.

A $20 MILLION GIFT Claudia Cohen Hall, renamed after the gossip reporter, is creating a stir at Penn.

A $740,000 severance package negotiated by the departing superintendent at the Keansburg Board of Education is being challenged in court.

Sara Goldrick-Rab and Michael Olneck, both at the University of Wisconsin, represent contrasting generations of professors, as younger faculty members tend to be more politically moderate.

For the second year in a row, a vast majority of New York City parents, teachers and students who responded to a Department of Education survey said they were satisfied with their schools.

The Apollo Group, an education company that owns the University of Phoenix, says it earned $139.1 million in the third quarter as enrollment grew by 11 percent.

Terell McCollum celebrated at the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice’s first graduation ceremony.

Jamarkus McFarland, a top Rivals.com recruit, working at Kmart. McFarland's life has little of the glamour pursued by some high-profile prospects.

The Vermont Law School has been denied some federal research money because of its policy barring military recruiters.

To improve their dropout numbers, officials in districts throughout Long Island say they are taking aggressive steps to keep students in the classroom.

Of more than 61,000 respondents, 85 percent disagreed with the statement that the Joel I. Klein’s emphasis on testing had improved education in their schools.

An evaluation of nine career academies has found that eight years after graduation, participants had significantly higher employment and earnings than similar students in a control group.

Alexandra Taveras, left, Jennifer Mendez and Jose Arroyo during an exercise in trust. The ninth-grade students took a day trip on the Hudson River aboard the Lettie G. Howard.

Christopher Julien, 7, was one of 14 first graders in the Gift of Time program at Hempstead Elementary in Spring Valley, N.Y.

Test scores in grades three through eight improved across the state, with particularly sizeable gains in urban areas.

Richard Kennedy, 9, has attended four schools in Flint, Mich.

The mayor of Gloucester, Mass., said there was no independent evidence that a group of high school girls had made a pact to become pregnant and raise their babies together, as a magazine reported.

A senior has been arrested on charges that he broke into the high school several times, hacked into administrative computers, changed grades and sent copies of test answers to dozens of students.

Two recent incidents have ignited the perpetual debate over how harshly a school should deal with an unruly student, and what responsibility parents bear for that youngster’s behavior.