GRANTS totalling more than £600,000 have been helping groups and organisations improve in York.

Nineteen of Minnesota's most struggling schools will receive nearly $25 million in federal grants to improve student performance.

Half of for-profit college students receive government-funded Pell Grants, and those students make up for 20 percent of Pell Grant recipients -- even though the schools only serve six percent of the country's student population.

DoSomething , headed by Fast Company columnist Nancy Lublin, has recognized five young social entrepreneurs with $10,000 grants--and one with a prize of $100,000. Fast Company will profile one of these enterprising youth each day this week. Click here to read the other winners\' stories. Its the morning ...

Two Dodge County school districts are the recipients of federal grants for educational programs.