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Obama tells Morehouse College graduates to shun excuses during commencement speech (VIDEO)

Could electroshock therapy work — for learning math?

Reflecting on the pursuit of equality and non-discrimination on LGBT Day

Whites-only scholarship still offered at Columbia University

The Associated Press, IRS scandals build unlikely bridge over bipartisan divide

Boston student accepted to UCLA after Twitter campaign

When information is a crime

Elizabeth Warren: Charge students same loan rate as banks (VIDEO)

Stephen Hawking confirms he is boycotting Israel conference: report

Young and restless in Ivory Coast

Will a decades-old poisoning case be the next US-China flashpoint?

Dragon King dinosaur fossils found in northwest China declared a new species

GlobalPost announces foundation-supported initiative to fund 27 fellowships for young journalists in under-reported parts of the world

New York elementary school adopts all-vegetarian menu

Ohio student hospitalized after shooting himself in a classroom

20,000 students sue California schools over English Instruction

South Korea’s household debt-to-income ratio hits 9-year high

Can you solve North Korean math?

Cooper Union charging tuition for the first time in over a century

Strapless dress ban at middle school has parents up in arms

Outrage of the Day: Korean teacher allegedly beats student and then masturbates in the hallway

China: Stephen Schwarzman launches scholarship program at Tsinghua University

BBC vs. LSE: When it comes to covering North Korea, how far is too far?

London School of Economics criticizes BBC filmmakers on student trip

Spelling Bee vocabulary test added to rules for 2013 (VIDEO)

Recent study sheds light on the UK's Byzantine class system

For Cuba’s traveling dissidents, an anxious return

The amazing story of how a school in Syria stays open

Chicago may close 10% of elementary schools to address $1 billion education budget gap

Oxford librarian gets boot after letting students "Harlem Shake"

Will Wikipedia replace the academic thesis?

Steubenville football players found guilty of rape

Obama library campaign heats up in Chicago, Honolulu

Foreign exchange student says he paid $4,000 to work at McDonald's

Are aid donors repeating mistakes in Myanmar?

Harvard secretly searched dean's email in search of cheating evidence

Bee attack in South Africa leaves 44 children injured

Why I loved Hugo Chavez

¿Como se dice R&D? South America’s still learning how

Coy Mathis, transgender 1st grader, banned from using girls’ bathroom

MIT put on lockdown following reports of gunman sighted on campus

Columbia reviewing science professor's strip show during lesson in quantum mechanics (VIDEO)

Papuan tribal leaders to author Jared Diamond: 'Don’t call us warlike'

North Korea: Google Earth reveals labor camp expansion

Who are the Knights of Malta? The organization turns 900 at the Vatican (PHOTOS)

Annette Schavan, German education minister, resigns over PhD plagiarism scandal

7-year-old Philadelphia boy finds loaded gun in his backpack

Here's the coolest new startup from the kids at Stanford

Argentina love hotels shoot for the stars

Duke ‘racist rager’: fraternity suspended over Asian-themed party

Speaking German in Texas (AUDIO)

India: War on whistleblowers

Boston bus crash: Dozens injured after visit to Harvard

Felipe Calderon Harvard fellowship: protest petition gathers steam

US college graduates: almost half are overqualified for their jobs

Mali: Timbuktu manuscripts not gone forever after all

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg donates more than $1B to Johns Hopkins University

The world's largest oceanarium: a look inside

South Korea in the red

New York City school bus drivers go on strike

Chinese kindergarteners say 'I do' in mass wedding ceremony

Mallory Hagan, Miss New York, wins Miss America pageant

Aaron Swartz's family: Decisions by MIT, Massachusetts Attorney contributed to his death

Aaron Swartz, Reddit co-creator and internet activist, dead at 26

California on track for budget surplus, spending increases

Pakistan also has a rape problem

Hannah Godefa, Ethiopian-born teen, named UNICEF ambassador

Brazilians head home for a taste of the BRIC boom

Chicago teachers sue district for alleged discrimination against black teachers

2,012 words of 2012

Why Chinese immigrants choose America

IQ study: Using number to measure intelligence 'a myth'

At last, Philippine contraception wars near final act

Mo Yan gets no love from literati

India: Condoms coming to a hut near you

Test results show American schoolchildren lag behind Asian, European peers in math, science

Philippines: Can power and cash absolve a bloodbath?

'Magnetic highway,' new layer at solar system's edge, discovered by Voyager 1

Longer school day for some US students in 2013

South African schools with 'inappropriate' names face change

Indonesia's fastest growing HIV demographic? Housewives

AIDS fight: 7 organizations making a difference

Latin American equality: free markets or a left-wing success?

Asia: Hopes rise in fight against HIV/AIDS

FAMU asks judge to throw out hazing death lawsuit

Myanmar's government-sanctioned Dos and Don'ts

Fighting neglected tropical diseases in Africa

BBC Facing Major Shakeup as Credibility Slips

Foreign students at US colleges: enrollment up 6%

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