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Yenifer Vasquez, back left, of Uncasville, and Versiemercedes Lee of Waterford, stop during the processional to put on their high heels during commencement at Three Rivers Middle College in Norwich, Wednesday, June 19, 2013.

International Connections Academy , an accredited, online private school serving students in grades K-12 in the United States and across the globe , is celebrating the graduation of its largest ever senior class at the end of this 2012-2013 academic year.

A shift to plant-based diets is one strategy to help the world meet its food demands by the year 2050, according to a new study that says crop yields are improving too slowly to satisfy meat-eaters' appetites.

School of Education Dean Hardin Coleman has been appointed to the Boston School Committee, a position he said he is excited for given his knowledge of and experience with successful schools.

Stanford researchers have developed a solar-powered retinal implant that could one day be used to correct blindness.

When it comes to clean tech, California is the clear leader, as the results of the U.S. Clean Tech Leadership Index report show.

"Healthier Living," a free, six-week program focused on managing ongoing health conditions, will begin on Wednesday, July 10, at 9 a.m. at SCAN Senior Resource Center, 6633 Telephone Road, Suite 100, in Ventura.

Larry Horton, Stanford University's longtime senior associate vice president and director of government and community relations, will step down at the end of this calendar year, he told the Weekly today.

But the vast majority of teacher preparation programs in the state are still failing to adequately prepare teachers, according to a controversial new report Tuesday that rated more than 1,200 schools of education across the nation.

With college tuition prices spiraling ever upward, it seems counter-intuitive that top schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University would also be racing to make their courses free online.

It's not often that M&G's retail bond team link to education pieces; they tend to be more interested in inflation threats and sovereign defaults.

After years of deep budget cuts, several states are poised to boost higher education funding, often in exchange for a promise by public colleges and universities to freeze tuition.

Former Cisco Systems executive Zeeshan Naseh has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Connectloud Inc., a Dallas-based technology startup, the company announced Tuesday.

On a newly built campus, in a spacious new auditorium, at the start of a school year, a dynamic new principal took the microphone.

Reward centre: It is likely that children with autism don't attend to voices because they are not rewarding or emotionally interesting say researchers Some children with autism have weak brain connections in regions that link speech with emotional rewards, possibly signaling a new pathway in treatment, say researchers.

Speaking at Stanford University's commencement on Sunday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg not only compared the push to legalize same-sex marriage to Martin Luther King's civil rights movement but said he believed all 50 states will eventually legalize gay marriage.

Daily News Photo by AISHA-ZAKIYA BOYD Charlotte Amalie High School graduated 274 students Sunday night during the school's 83rd annual commencement program held at the University of the Virgin Islands Sports and Fitness Center on St.Thomas.

The MdBio Foundation today announced the addition of three new members to its board of directors.

More than 4,000 students sat in the field at Stanford University's stadium, with their families and friends cheering them from the stands as they received their diplomas.

For a cost of only $1.75 per student, a self-defense training in an impoverished area of Kenya cut rapes among adolescent girls from nearly one in four to fewer than one in 10. A short and simple self-defense class for girls who live in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, dramatically reduced the number of rapes.