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The Southern Song portion of the Song dynasty, lasting for 153 years (from 1127 to 1279), was a crucial period in the history of China’s cultural development.

Ontario has designated the third week of every November as Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week.

The United Nations marked World Teachers’ Day today with top officials calling on governments to make up a projected deficit of over 10 million teachers by 2015 and stressing the crucial role teachers play in recovery from natural disasters and conflict.

Maryland is now the first state in the country to bar high schools from automatically releasing students' test scores on a widely used aptitude test developed by the U.S. military to identify potential recruits.

Plans to provide National Citizen Service pilots for 16-year-olds next summer have been announced by Prime Minister David Cameron.

A primary school in Britain has banned football after its pupils were found copying the cheating and fouling tactics displayed by international stars in the World Cup.

There's an electronic resource out there that's providing college students with inventive new ways of maintaining their GPAs without required reading, tedious essays or hours of studying. It's the Internet, and it's led to a new kind of cheating that educators are trying to combat with technology and another look at what counts as plagiarism.

When classes resume in the fall, the University of Maryland University College will be offering several courses in understanding terrorism, including "Counterterrorism" and "Terrorism, Antiterrorism and Homeland Security." Utah Valley University in Orem is looking for an assistant professor of emergency services. Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., advertises that its environmental engineering majors will be equipped to tackle such frightening issues as global warming, acid rain and pollution.

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who has six kids, says that motherhood is the 'greatest adventure of all'.

When summer ends, many teachers will face a new reality: A number of states have passed new laws and policies that tie teachers' job security to how well their students do in class. Some teacher groups dropped their longstanding opposition to this idea, and now say it will be good for the profession. Still, many teachers fear the new evaluation systems are part of an attack on their profession.