Education

If there's one thing you can say about politics, it certainly brings out the best in people. As you can see in the above video, a political "debate" went awry when a University of Oregon Professor physically pushed two students subsequent to making "racists remarks" towards them...

You've surely heard it said that so-and-so has "dedicated his life to learning." But it would be hard to find anyone more dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge than 71-year-old Michael Nicholson, who is currently working on his 30th college degree.

Humorous academic superlatives are generally handed out in high school yearbooks. Maybe it's best to keep it that way because a "Catastrophe Award" for having the most homework excuses given to a third grader at Desert Springs Academy in Arizona is causing controversy.

This supercut video of movie characters reciting all 50 state capitals combines the best of viral videos with the basics of a fourth-grade geography class. Check it out below, and see how stars of films like 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' and 'Forrest Gump' handle capital cities from Pierre, SD to Montpelier, VT.

14-year-old Virginia high school student Brian Thompson thought it would be hysterical to run down the sideline during a football game dressed as a banana. We agree, kind of funny, but unfortunately the school and local police didn't find the stunt as amusing and had the kid arrested.

Forever 21 might think that girls are allergic to algebra, but this young lady proves that she's a math fiend by reciting the first 100 digits of pi. While solving a Rubik's Cube. With 15 books balanced on the top of her head.

Students enrolled in the New York University's freshman level Storytelling Strategies course got quite a thrill when 'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone showed up during their first class of the semester as surprise guest lectures.

According to Virginia Tech freshman Lance Diamond, his first week of college was ruined after he wore a pair of Rainbow brand flip-flops and a pair of Sperry boat shoes without first properly breaking the footwear in.

We've got ten good reason schools shouldn’t be cutting arts budgets: these great songs about their hallowed halls. After all, if they eliminated music classes, who’s gonna write songs about how cool school is?

As kids around the world continue to put off their summer reading lists and inevitable Trapper Keeper shopping trips, teachers are already prepping to head back to school. And it's very likely that one of those hardworking people could be the biggest inspiration your kid's life. While we ...

The University of Alabama Panhellenic Society produced this musical number to convince freshman to rush the college's sororities. While it's too soon to tell if this message resonated with the class of 2015, the video has already become a bona fide hit on the internet for all the wrong reasons.

If you saw the so-awful-it's-sublime movie 'Showgirls,' you likely remember the scene in which someone compliments Nomi's dress and she says, "Thanks! I bought it at Ver-sayce," completely and embarrassingly butchering the pronunciation of designer label Versace. If you'd like to recreate that moment for yourself, the YouTube channel Pronunciation Manual is here to "help." Read

At the Save Our Schools Million Teacher March in Washington DC on July 30th, actor Matt Damon was grilled on his feelings about public school educators. Damon, who attended public school in Boston as a youth and whose own mother is a public school teacher, made some impassioned remarks in defense of teachers.

An new Missouri law, aimed at protecting children from sexual predators, has made it illegal for teachers and their past and present school-aged students to friend each other on Facebook.

Dyslexia sufferers have a tough time with basic reading-- the learning disability actually causes those afflicted to view words differently than the rest of us. They sometimes see letters flipped upside down, mirrored or even rearranged within a word. A new typeface called Dyslexie is trying to change all that. Created by Netherlands designer Christian Boer, it thickens the bottom of some letters