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How Poor And Disadvantaged Students Will Fare Under The New Education Law

When it comes to the success of students in poverty, UCLA's Pedro Noguera says that "schools can't do it alone."

San Diego Companies Partner On Prenatal Testing

Through a new partnership, the San Diego company behind a leading prenatal test for Down syndrome hopes to offer expectant mothers more information about their pregnancies.

A student is welcomed to UC San Diego School of Medicine in the traditional "white coat" ceremony, Friday, Sept. 4, 2015.

UC San Diego Program Creates Nontraditional Medical School Path

As a new class begins UC San Diego’s medical school Tuesday, there are some students who didn’t follow the traditional path to get there. A new program is helping students attend the school who otherwise wouldn’t have gotten the opportunity.

Boy Scouts work on canoes at camp Maple Dell outside Payson, Utah. The Mormon Church is considering pulling out of its 102 year old relationship with the Boy Scouts after the Boy Scouts changed it's policy on allowing gay leaders in the organization.

Mormons Face A Painful Loss If The Church Severs Boy Scout Ties

Scouting has been the official program for Mormon boys for more than 100 years, but that may change after a vote allowing openly gay leaders. A Brigham Young professor says a split would be wrenching.

Sans Artificial: General Mills Scrambles To Reformulate Lucky Charms

The company has pledged to ditch artificial colorings and flavorings from all of its cereals by the end of 2016. But those iconic rainbow-colored marshmallow charms might take longer to revamp.

William Masters originally hired Virginia Johnson, then a divorced mother of two, to help him conduct research interviews. They married in 1971.

Pioneering 'Masters Of Sex' Brought Science To The Bedroom

William Masters and Virginia Johnson became famous in the 1960s for their research into the physiology of human sexuality. In Masters of Sex, biographer Thomas Maier explores the duo's research methods, which for years remained shrouded in secrecy.

Constance Carroll is chancellor of the San Diego Community College District.

City College Opens New Math And Social Sciences Building

San Diego City College is undergoing a $500 million expansion, and the second building in the project opened on Friday.

A Bolivian farmer harvests organic quinoa in his fields in Puerto Perez, Bolivia. Some researchers are working quinoa farmers in Bolivia and Peruto try and develop internal markets for threatened varieties — for example, in hospital and school feeding programs.

Your Quinoa Habit Really Did Help Peru's Poor. But There's Trouble Ahead

Headlines once warned the global quinoa boom was putting the nutritious crop out of the reach of those who grow it. New studies put those fears to rest. But bad news may loom for Andean farmers.

Conservative groups have spent more than $1.1 million against Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., ahead of her GOP primary on Tuesday.

How A Tea Partier Became Its Villain — And Why She Could Lose Tuesday

The political evolution Rep. Renee Ellmers has undergone since 2010 could cost the North Carolina Republican her job in Tuesday's special GOP congressional primary.

Two teams debated the value of online education in an Intelligence Squared U.S. event at Columbia University.

Debate: In An Online World, Are Brick And Mortar Colleges Obsolete?

Proponents of online education say it's flexible and economical. But skeptics say "college by Internet" is a pale substitute for real-world exchanges with instructors and peers inside the classroom.

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