Education

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

Twitter skills are going to score one student a full ride to The University of Iowa’s Henry B. Tippie School of Management. To win the $37,200-a-year scholarship, applicants have to answer one of their essay questions within Twitter's 140 character limit. The Trippie School's website does encourage that links to other social media "such as blogs, video, Facebook, or a web page" be includ

Apparently they do high school graduation a little differently in Taichung, Taiwan. Instead of just throwing on 'Pomp and Circumstance' and reading out a list of names, Ming-Dao High principal Albert T. Wang emerges onto a smoke-filled stage dressed in a full Iron Man costume and delivers a speech in not one, but two languages. His message: "Believe in yourself. You are also Iron Man." R

Leo Plass is a graduating senior. And we do mean “senior.”