Accused of misconduct, 160 L.A. teachers are ordered to stay at home, but they continue to receive full salaries. (LAT)

Two diverse groups of students -- one from Harlem, NY, one from Long Valley, NJ -- retrace the Civil Rights Movement together.

Maggots and putrid odors don't prevent high school students from swarming to Forensic Science classes, a surprisingly alluring elective in the CSI era. (NYT)

A group of successful Indo-American tech execs in Silicon Valley provide scholarships to poor students in India. (San Jose Mercury News)

Men sentenced to the Florida School for Boys in the 1950s and 1960s are coming forward with haunting stories of torture and abuse. (St. Petersburg Times)

Immigrant children in public schools thrive academically in separate classrooms, but what opportunities do they sacrifice in return? (NYT)

Forced to leave school to work when he was 6, Alferd Williams, now 70, is back in the classroom -- learning to read with first-graders. (AARP)

How do Sam Calavitta's math pupils consistently ace their advanced placement exams? Watch their award-winning mentor in action. (LAT)

Dan Conley is a grandfather figure who entertains elementary school kids by spinning tales from his own life. (Spokesman-Review)

In once peaceful Swat, Pakistan, the Taliban is violently closing all schools for girls. A schoolmaster and his pre-teen daughter respond. (NYT)