Two weeks ago, Gawker contributor JK Trotter published evidence that the City University of New York was offering General David Petraeus a $200,000 salary for conducting a seminar on "developments that could position the United States...to lead the world out of the current global economic slowdown." Faced with only three hours a week of real work, the disgraced former CIA chief was set to be paid about eight times the salary of a first-time adjunct professor at CUNY, and all without having to teach a full course load. Today, it looks as if that deal has been scrapped.

Tufts University, a former clown college that rose through the ranks to become one of America's most prestigious safety schools, likes to have fun on its applications. For years, it's been asking prospective students to submit quirky YouTube videos demonstrating how their quirky YouTube videos are better than other applicants' quirky YouTube videos. In 2010, it invited applicants to "create something" out of a sheet of paper. It's fun in the way your old job made you wear a sombrero on your birthday "because we like to have fun here!" It's just really, really fun.

California lawmakers today approved a bill that would allow transgender public school students to choose which restrooms they use and which sports teams they join based on their gender identity rather than their chromosomal gender. The bill is now headed to Governor Jerry Brown for his signature.

Americans are currently drowning in student debt. Debates over this issue tend to descend into arguments over whether college is "worth it." Meanwhile, debt-hobbled graduates scrounge unsuccessfully for living-wage jobs. Oregon has a better idea.

Every once in a while you run into one of these fresh-mouthed young high school graduates declaring they're going to "change the world" with their "apps" and their "new paradigm" and their "great idea for an electronic dance beat." News flash, kiddos: you're mediocre at best, just like your old man.

A domestic violence victim has come forward this week after being fired from her teaching job at a San Diego Catholic school because she was deemed a liability for having an abusive ex-husband.

Before he took the stage to give his salutatorian speech at the Bell County Expo in Belton, Texas, on Thursday, Mitch Anderson had never told anyone he is gay. That had changed by Anderson's third paragraph, when, after extolling the merits of "learning how to love and celebrate yourself," he broke the news unequivocally: "I feel the moment has arrived for me to be publically true to my personal identity," he said. "So now, I can say, I’m gay."

It's a dream come true for most kids: The teacher is too lazy or hungover to teach, so he or she pops in a movie instead.

European students are unclear on the concept of plagiarism.

Besides forcing young college graduates into a decades-long penurious existence as veritable indentured servants to institutions of higher learning, there's another downside to our nation's $1 trillion student debt: it's stopping young people from starting business. Businesses! The lifeblood of Republicanism!

A social studies teacher in Illinois is facing possible dismissal after he informed his students of their constitutional right to skip self-incriminating questions on a drug and alcohol use survey administered by the school.

More than 40% of American college students are enrolled in a community college. The problems facing community colleges resemble the problems facing public schools more than the problems facing larger universities. In particular, racial segregation and inequality.

As higher education in America grows both more expensive and more necessary (as an entry fee to a middle class life), community colleges— the last affordable path into college— grow more important. But they're not getting any more well-funded. Quite the opposite!

While many of America's classrooms remain criminally regressive when it comes to their sexual education policies, today Illinois has helped put a kibosh on some of that bullshit by stepping slightly into the 21st Century.

Jeff Bliss, the Duncanville High School student who became an overnight legend after he told off a teacher for doing her job poorly, spoke with local news outlets for the first time since his rant went viral.

Fed up with being given yet another unimaginative packet of worksheets to mindlessly fill out in lieu of an actual lesson, one high school student from Duncanville, Texas, tells his teacher as much, and is kicked out for it.

New York elementary school P.S. 244 has become one of the first in the nation—and the first in New York City—to give students an all-vegetarian lunch menu. Was it the feces-covered turkey burgers that put them over the edge?

A substitute homeroom teacher in Seoul was recently terminated for allegedly masturbating in front of high school students after allegedly hitting one of them for listening to music in class.

An Albany English teacher has been suspended for asking students to write an anti-Semitic essay in the voice of a Nazi.

Michelle Rhee, the controversial former head of DC's public schools, won't admit her child goes to private school.