I was lied to. We were all lied to. Growing up, we were told that our permanent record would hound us for all the days of our lives. Our teachers and principals struck fear in our little adolescent ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - When Jim Phillips attended Catholic school decades ago, his teachers were no-nonsense, tough-as-nails disciplinarians who didn’t think twice about sending misbehaving students to ...

What you see at left is the front of her report card from the Manhattan Trade School for Girls, a vocational school she attended in the late 1920s, after she had finished the eighth grade. As you can ...