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Critics said the proposals for 'study materials' to be amended so that men and women are no longer depicted in their traditional roles would mean the withdrawal of children's classics, such as Enid Blyton's The Famous Five series, Paddington Bear or
I was driving in the car with my daughter, she's in 1st grade and she heard a political ad on the radio, then she told me she had voted in her class.
The Moraga School District in Moraga, California alleged that a 12-year-old girl, who suffered prolonged sexual abuse at the hands of two different middle school teachers in the 1990s, was “negligent,” “careless” and “was herself responsible for the
The Chicago Public Schools are constantly being scrutinized for improving test scores and academic standards. But who’s watching to make sure the school’s kitchens and lunchrooms are being kept up to safety standards?
The following boggled my pea brain. It seems that every day--no, every hour--there is something mind-boggling in the news about the demise of thinking and common sense in the USA.
In a blog on the Department of Homeland Security website, Secretary Janet Napolitano said her department is working to develop the next generation of leaders in cybersecurity beginning in kindergarten.
The Justice Department is taking a stand against an educational policy in Mississippi that incarcerates kids for just being kids.
A bully security guard with bad boy-style shaved head pounced on a skinny, young girl in a school cafeteria in Palmdale, CA. The girl had committed a crime by dropping a piece of cake on the floor. She cleaned it up, but a security guard repeatedly b
An 11-year-old California schoolboy named Colman Chadam has been banished from his school and forced to transfer to another school because he carries the genetic mutation for cystic fibrosis.
An 11-year-old California schoolboy named Colman Chadam has been banished from his school and forced to transfer to another school because he carries the genetic mutation for cystic fibrosis.
With the rise of the internet reformation, many students are discovering they can educate themselves more thoroughly and cheaply online. Minnesota is looking to put a stop to that by making free online courses illegal.
For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation’s history, where individual freedoms, privacy and human dignity have been sacrificed to the gods of security, expediency and corpocracy, look no farther t
The lunch police have struck again.
The state-enforced public school prison with its social conditioning is colossally bad for the student, and when poor result shows we blame the student with a psych-based diagnosis and give him a chemical straight-jacket to "help" him.
US high school has suspended four students who needed a boost of caffeine.
A school district in Texas came under fire earlier this year when it announced that it would require students to wear microchip-embedded ID cards at all times.
There's no question college graduates are swimming in student loan debt, which is estimated at more than $1 billion nationwide.
This past January, almost exactly 20 years after its publication, Tucson schools banned the book I co-edited with Bob Peterson, Rethinking Columbus.
Lake County School Board officials are considering attaching cameras to school cafeteria trash cans to study what students are tossing after officials found that most of the vegetables on the school menu end up in the trash can.
Students and parents at two San Antonio schools are in revolt over a program that forces kids to wear RFID tracking name tags which are used to pinpoint their location on campus as well as outside school premises.
Do students at your local public high school graduate with an understanding of this? If not, you might want to question the value of the institution.
The masses were to be taught to be mindless consumers, to be good citizens who unquestionably served the state, and to be productive and skilled workers and managers in industry and government.
In a seemingly counterintuitive move, a Texas school district has changed its policies to allow opposite-gender faculty to paddle students after a controversy regarding two high-school girls being paddled by a male vice principal.
All we can say is that the need for the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too has never been greater.
Mountain Home Career Academies High School has taken a big gamble over the last decade. It transformed itself from a traditional high school into one consisting of three academies--engineering, communications, and healthcare.
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Reading scores on the SAT for the class of 2012 reached a 4-decade low, putting a punctuation mark on a gradual decline in the ability of college-bound teens to read and answer questions about sentence structure, vocabulary and meaning
This is a place where we depend on being able to speak our minds and offer controversial opinions in a free and open place, [a professor] said. Among a percentage of faculty is this will create a climate of fear and intimidation.
"Won't Back Down" pushes so-called "parent trigger" laws espoused by rightwing policy groups and privatization advocates
The problem arose when the custom $185 textbook ran into licensing agreements for pictures. This, for some reason, didn't cause educators to abandon the project, but instead publish it and make it required reading.
