Lyndsey Layton

Zuckerberg plans to eventually donate 99 percent of the Facebook stock owned by him and his wife, Priscilla Chan -- shares that are worth about $45 billion today, making it one of the largest-ever philanthropic commitments.

A majority of students in public schools throughout the American South and West are low-income for the first time in at least four decades, according to a new study that details a demographic shift with broad implications for the country.

Of the major shifts taking place in American classrooms as a result of the new national Common Core academic standards, one little-noticed but sweeping change is the fact that children as early as kindergarten are learning to use a keyboard.

Before an adoring crowd of religious conservatives, Sarah Palin mocked recent scandals swirling around the Obama administration, performing her own version of a "Saturday Night Live" parody.