He was charged with making and distributing child pornography, counseling another to commit an indictable offense and agreeing to or arranging for a sexual offense against a child. He has been free on bail since July 2013.
A new law combats cyber-bullying by giving administrators the right to demand access to students' social media accounts--even if the online activities took place outside of school.
At the online University of the People, anyone with a high school diploma can take classes toward a degree in business administration or computer science -- without standard tuition fees (though exams cost money).
Arizona became the first state in the nation on Thursday to enact a law requiring high school students to pass the U.S. citizenship test on civics before graduation, giving a boost to a growing nationwide effort to boost civics education.
A Waxahachie man who has autism was kicked out of college classes because he mistakenly hugged a woman he did not know and kissed her on the top of her head, according to the man's mother.
On Friday, January 9, US president Barack Obama traveled to Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee. Here, Obama announced plans to make an associate degree as obtainable as a high school diploma. Deemed "America's College Pro
"One Voluntaryist's Perspective" is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here.
A San Francisco filmmaker has created a controversial gun control video showing a young man stealing his mother's gun, taking it to school and handing it over to a teacher saying, "I don't feel safe with a gun in my house."
The clock is ticking folks...
High School: Islamic vocabulary lesson part of Common Core standards
Parents in Farmville, North Carolina want to know why their children were given a Common Core vocabulary assignment in an English class that promot
The US Attorney lacked enough drug conspiracies to keep him busy, leaving plenty of time to visit the students to explain the merit of cooperation. Not the getting along kind of cooperation. The giving up your mother to the cops kind.
Westside Community Schools have begun collecting student fingerprints for its school lunch program. The school district has moved to a biometric identification program, saying students will no longer have to use an ID card to buy lunch.
You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."
Students whose subject choices are not offered by the school complete what is known as a Personalised Learning Project (PLP). They set the objectives of the project, choose a staff mentor and then complete the project.
Students who are given the a
A student is suing the Loomis Union School District for harassment and abuse she received from the school director who scolded her and demanded a written "confession" for the student's giving 2 other students a flyer for a creationism-based sem
The following account comes from a veteran HS teacher who just became a Coach in her building. Because her experience is so vivid and sobering I have kept her identity anonymous. But nothing she describes is any different than my own experience in si
The Revolution of 2019 began, curiously enough, in fall of 2019 when Mary Lou Johnson, the nine-year-old daughter of a ranching family outside of Casper, Wyoming, came home from her sex-ed class at Martin Luther King Elementary with a banana, a packe
As recently reported by the Project On Student Debt, 7 in 10 seniors who graduated from public and nonprofit colleges in 2013 had student loans, with an average debt load of $28,400 per borrower. This represents a two percent increase from the averag
As a reaction to Barbie's famously unrealistic proportions artist Nickolay Lamm created Lammily – a new "average" Barbie doll that uses the measurements of a average 19-year-old (based on CDC data).
Mike Kai and David Aulicino were seniors at Yale in 2004 when they, along with 20 friends dressed as the fictional "Harvard Pep Squad," boldly entered Harvard's football stadium and convinced close to 2,000 unsuspecting Crimson fans to help spell out
Apparently this homework sheet given out to 2nd graders about "Being a Good Citizen" is teaching them that the government GIVES us our rights. And not just rights, but the government gives us "special privileges called rights."
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