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As another reminder of attempts to take educational choices out of the hands of parents, legislation has been introduced in Congress proposing ot amend the US Constitution to make public education is "right". House Joint Resolution 29,
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Student drivers caught not wearing their safety belt exiting the school will lose their Gallatin High School identification card as part of a new program implemented by the Gallatin Police Department and the school.
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A milk-truck driver stormed a one-room Amish schoolhouse, sent the boys and adults outside, barricaded the doors with two-by-fours, and then opened fire on a dozen girls, killing three people before committing suicide.
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The so-called European Human Rights Court has concluded that society has a significant interest in preventing the development of dissent through "separate philosophical convictions."
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The report calls for reining in tuition, improving access and graduation rates, and doing more to demonstrate the value of higher education. Asking Congress, state governments, and both public and private universities to work together to start making
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Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for $2.50 an hour -- in India.
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The latest crisis for the Detroit Public Schools -- an anticpiated plunge in student enrollment -- is driving talk in Lansing of drastic solutions to the district's long-term finanical crisis. Those solutions could signal the beginning of the en
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A scorching internal review of the Bush administration's billion-dollar-a-year reading program says the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted.
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The US spends more on primary and secondary education that most developed countries, yet has larger classes, lower test scores and higher dropout rates, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development required
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Screening the mental health of children for suicidal tendencies is a noble idea worth pursuing. Yet, when the screening is mandated by the President and is done without the knowledge and consent of parents, an eyebrow should be raised.
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Vermont schoolboy was within his rights to wear a T-shirt depicting George Bush as a chicken and accusing him of being a former alcohol and cocaine abuser, an appeals court ruled. Zachary Guiles' school violated the First Amendment when it ordere
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Federal officials stamped the words "failure" on hundreds more Arizona schools, but state officials called the decision illogical and absurd. A record of more than 600 schools, or nearly three times as many as last year, failed to meet fede
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The high school class of 2006 got stuck with a new, longer version of the SAT and didn't fare well on it. Average reading and math scores fell a total of 7 points -- the sharpest decline in 31 years. Experts agreed the dip in combined
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The War Against Boys, how feminist complaints that girls were “losing their voice” in a male-oriented classroom have prompted the educational establishment to turn the schools upside down
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Parents and public health policy makers have cause for concern about the finding of a study conducted at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. WebMD reports that all 12 children who were enrolled in a Ritalin trial "experienced an
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Parents and public health policy makers have cause for concern about the finding of a study conducted at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. WebMD reports that all 12 children who were enrolled in a Ritalin trial "experienced an
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One student said she was in the middle of shampooing someone's hair when law enforcement barged in and served a search warrant. What was going on was the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector Generals serving a search warrant fo
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9 black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children. Outraged relatives of the black children have filed a complaint with sch
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Year after year, Arizona schools chief Tom Horne withheld from the federal government and the public some of the state’s worst AIMS scores. Arizona took advantage of an off-the-books deal Horne says he struck with the U.S. Education Department in 200
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A high school valedictorian who had the plug pulled on her microphone as she gave an address referring to Jesus Christ sued school officials, saying her rights to religious freedom and free speech were trampled on. Brittany McComb, 18, was part wa
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Those in favor of simplified spelling say children would learn faster and illiteracy rates would drop. Opponents say a new system would make spelling even more confusing.
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During the US-Taliban era of cooperation from 1994 to 1998 ... a key Unocal consultant was a University of Nebraska academic named Thomas Gouttierre, director for the Center for Afghanistan Studies there. During and after the Afghan jihad, Gouttierr
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After the actors exchange pleasantries, the retired teacher begins lamenting about how teaching had changed for the worse over her 30-year career. they always preface their comments with the caveat that they are speaking in confidence and don’t want
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Cunning US teenagers have turned a disruptive noise technology to their advantage by adapting it to a cell phone ring tone that adults can't hear. Invented a sound generator that emits an annoying sound only young people can hear, and now markets
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(Now if this was a Private School.......) A radio reporter attempting to interview the principal of a publicly funded school backed by radical groups that lay claim to the Southwestern U.S says he was chased down and tackled at the campus today, appa
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Proponents say it gives options to low-income kids who might otherwise be stuck in failing schools, and that the competition for students is good for all Milwaukee's schools, both public and private. Critics, meanwhile, cite the money the program
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A California public school teacher recently sent us this NY Times "Daily Lesson Plan" designed to "educate" kids about the benefits of tracking people and things with RFID.
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Nettelhorst's principal made the decision to bring back recess - a rarity in Chicago, where a recent survey showed just 6% of elementary schools have a recess of at least 20 minutes. "There isn't anything happening here that can't ha
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A new Goldwater Institute report pulls together all sources of funding to give policymakers and taxpayers a true account of the total amount being spent on education. View per-student funding figures for schools in your neighborhood with this link:
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States are helping public schools escape potential penalties by skirting the No Child Left Behind law's requirement that students of all races must show annual academic progress. With the federal government's permission, schools deliberately
