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You can rub shoulders with the brightest faculty and students in the world right here in New York. Cornell University was recently named the 13th Best University in the world.

Everyone will tell you about picking up extra pens and folders while back to school shopping. Will people tell you to pick up extra things that will help make your school day flow much better? Here's 5 items our Intern Josh suggests to add to your back to school shopping list.

As graduation ceremonies take place, did your child attend the best school New York has to offer? 2 of the top 100 schools in upstate New York are in our backyard. The Buffalo Business First magazine choose the best of the best from 431 school districts and 2 central New York schools made the top 15.

One woman's effort to provide lunches for students in need of sustenance has landed her in the unemployment line.

Want to buy a high school? There's one in Ithaca, New York for sale. Moravia High School features 446 classrooms, 2 parking lots and a unique clock tower. It's on Craigslist for a little over $225 million.

An 18-year-old senior at York Comprehensive High School of South Caroline was told he wasn't allowed to fly his American flag and POW-MIA flag in the bed of his pickup truck.

This was no ordinary ride home.

Forged in the fires of Mount Doom, the Ring of Power was stripped from the hand of Sauron following the final battle with the Last Alliance and became of a keepsake of Prince Isildur. Now corrupted by the One Ring, Isildur fell in battle, losing the ring to the river. From there, “Isildur’s Bane” fell into the hands of the creature known as Gollum and from there, into the hands of the Hobbit known as Bilbo Baggins. It was only through the efforts of the Fellowship of the Ring and the brave Frodo Baggins that the One Ring was destroyed forever ... or so we thought. Because the ring has fallen into the hands of a young Texas boy, who was suspended from school for wielding such an accursed tool.

What cities get the highest return on their education tax dollars and which get the worst? 5 of the least efficient cities for spending on education are in Upstate New York.

Every year Newsweek Magazine comes out with a list of The Top 500 High Schools in America. This year, two Oneida County high schools and one Onondaga County school made the list.

Ok, school has been back in for a couple of weeks now and we are getting ready for open house at Westmoreland Road Elementary.  Here is our chance to speak with our kids' teachers face to face and not through email.

The 'X-mas Jammies' family is back, and this time they're celebrating what every parent is looking forward to this time of summer: the beginning of the school year.