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A new national survey shows a huge disconnect between parent perceptions and student performance.

Opera is sometimes seen as a loud spectacle, featuring bellowing sopranos in horned helmets. This week the Cleveland Orchestra plans to counter that stereotype with a quiet, mysterious meditation on love and death. And one of the main characters is fog in the orchestra's production of Claude Debussy’s Pelleas & Melisande.

"It's basically a coin flip as to whether you'll do better than your parents," a Stanford economist says.

Cleveland weatherman Scott Sabol isn't going to shave until the Cleveland Browns win a game. The team is currently 0-12.

IKEA exiled designers to a research station in Utah modeled after a living situation on the planet Mars. They hope the experience will inspire them to create similar spaces around the world.

Ever wondered what it feels like to get into one of the moon suits that Ebola workers wear for protection? At a TED Talk, Bill Gates gave audience members a chance to climb in and see.

Journalist Graham Holliday moved to Vietnam in the '90s and immersed himself in the culture through food. That meant getting "a little bit" poisoned, finding the best Bún chả — and meeting his wife.

The euro has dropped in value against the U.S. dollar by more than 20 percent since last summer. But even as Americans find bargains in Europe, flights to get there remain pricey for a few reasons.

When Christian Hoffman was a computer science student at Carnegie Mellon University, he saw a film that changed his life forever, Pixar Studios' 1995 classic, Toy Story. "Toy Story came out as I was taking a computer graphics class. I pretty much knew right there that that's what I wanted to do," Hoffman said. He'd seen many Pixar short films up to that point, but had no idea what Pixar was at the time.

In the summer of 2015, Akron theater goers were shocked and confused by the historic E.J. Thomas Hall closing its doors. The University of Akron was undergoing serious fiscal challenges and needed to change the operations of its theater. Part of saving E.J. Thomas was partnering with Playhouse Square in Cleveland to produce the annual Broadway series in Akron. "We were looking to flip the model and see if we could do it a little bit more economical and efficient," said University of Akron's Vice President for Finance Nathan Mortimer.