EVERETT, Mass. — One Boston nonprofit is bringing laureates into schools so young people can hear first hand about Nobel-winning work.

BOSTON — Robert Brown was the highest paid president of any private college in Massachusetts.

BOSTON — The Roxbury school has been named as a Turnaround Arts school, part of a White House education initiative.

PHILADELPHIA — The communities are among 16 that signed a collaboration compact designed to reduce tension between district and charter schools.

BOSTON — The women’s liberal arts college will offer free online classes through the nonprofit venture.

BOSTON — James McCarthy says he has a new vision for the school.

BOSTON — Fall River and Lawrence will take part in a three-year pilot program that aims to boost student achievement by lengthening the school day.

BOSTON — School officials said that the two cities are included in a national pilot program that will add 300 extra hours of instruction to the school year, starting next fall.

WASHINGTON — The initiative is intended to boost student achievement and make U.S. schools more competitive on a global level.

FALMOUTH, Mass. — The granddaughters of pioneering geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan have donated his Nobel Prize and artistically decorated Nobel diploma to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole.

BOSTON — The move is being welcomed by some parent advocates.

BOSTON — A new study by Boston researchers partially debunks the idea that new medical school graduates are so burdened with loans that they can’t afford to go into primary care.

BOSTON — Since the third week of classes, at least 91 percent of buses have been on time compared to less than 80 percent last fall, The Boston Globe reports.

BOSTON — We begin following a student who, like most high school seniors, is facing one of the most important financial decisions in her life: how to pay for college.