Education

Severn School officials say they have removed a student from the school after he posted a picture of himself holding a gun, along with a threatening caption, on social media. 

A 16-year-old girl reported that she was raped at a Johns Hopkins University fraternity over the weekend, according to law enforcement sources. University officials ordered the fraternity to cease activities as Baltimore police investigate.

The attorney for a 16-year-old student accused of planning to attack his Towson school says he will try to get the teen's case transferred to the juvenile system.

Mac Ford's qualifications for landing the job as the first male varsity lacrosse at Notre Dame Preparatory School are off the charts.

A Columbia construction company will build the first ever residential hall on the campus of Capitol Technology University in Laurel.

Carroll County Public Schools Superintendent Stephen Guthrie was named Maryland Superintendent of the Year by the Public School Superintendents' Association of Maryland.

Bowing to concerns from educators across the state, the Maryland school board voted unanimously this week to delay requiring students to pass new end-of-year tests in high school English and Algebra I in order to graduate.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore saw the biggest jump in private donations in 2013 among some of the state's largest charities while the University of Maryland at College Park experienced the largest decline in gifts raised last year, according to a recent survey of the nation's 400...

Harford County's top police official would like to move as quickly as the current school year to have cameras placed on the exterior of all public school buses in an effort to catch and fine drivers who don't stop when a bus stops to pick up or discharge students.

Towson University professor Andrew Reiner is concerned that the desire to be "liked" online has bled into the real-life interactions of some of his students. He wants to change that.

A Washington rabbi who serves as an associate professor at Towson University has been suspended with pay by the school after being arrested and charged with voyeurism by D.C. police last week, school officials said Tuesday.

A female student was assaulted by an unknown male early Sunday on the campus of McDaniel College, school officials said.

Morgan State University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County will receive millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health to develop ways to attract and retain more minorities in the biomedical sciences, NIH officials announced Wednesday.

Afterschool activity aims to reduce learning gap in computer science education

University of Maryland, College Park has identified cases of viral meningitis and viral syndromes on campus, according to an email school officials sent to students this week.

Howard County Executive Ken Ulman joined local officials Friday to tour the Dasher Green Head Start Center in Columbia touting the importance of prekindergarten classes and the need to make them full-day programs.

Democratic gubernatorial Anthony G. Brown derided as "ridiculous' a charge Thursday by Republican rival Larry Hogan that the lieutenant governor is planning to raise tuition rates at community colleges.

Students in Glenelg High School's robotics club typically take off the first three Sundays of their six-week build season when it begins in January.

Local education leaders are pressing the state to delay using tougher, new exams as graduation requirements in Maryland public schools, saying the state can't predict how well students will do on the tests.

Twice over the past year, an aging Head Start school bus has broken down, forcing Alejandro Martinez to skip a day at work so he can stay home and care for his two children enrolled in the program.