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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) _ A Massachusetts jury has awarded $300,000 to a man who said his sixth-grade Catholic school teacher in Massachusetts sexually assaulted him in the mid-1980s when he was 10. The unidentified man's attorneys say the New Bedford jury made the award last month...

While New Bedford students won't be forced to take MCAS or PARCC tests, they also won't be told they can opt out. At Monday's meeting, the New Bedford School Committee voted to not send parents information about their right to refuse standardized testing for their child...

New Bedford Public Schools is hosting its annual Teacher Career Fair from 9:30am to 12:30pm, on Saturday, April 2 at Keith Middle School, at 225 Hathaway Boulevard.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) _ Harvard University is retiring the official shield of its law school following complaints over its ties to an 18th-century slaveholder. The university's governing body announced the decision Monday, supporting a campus committee's previous recommendation to remove the shield...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) _ A committee made up of faculty, students, alumni, and staff has recommended that Harvard Law School ditch its seal because of its ties to an 18th century slaveholder. The committee announced Friday that it recommended to the university's governing body that the seal be dropped...

Mashpee Middle-High School was evacuated Monday morning after a bomb threat was sent to the school.

Children start learning at a young age. However, learning how to hold a gun for a young child is most likely not going to make it onto a parent's teaching bucket list.

New Bedford High School is now one of nine schools in the state of Massachusetts to offer its students a capstone diploma.

There's a new interim leader at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.

A consciencious student at UMass Dartmouth's School of Law is making a large effort to provide relief to the residents of Flint, Michigan. Many residents of the community have been exposed to dangerous levels of lead that has contaminated their water supply...