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Zachary Golob-Drake, a 5th grader at the Patel Partnership School in Tampa Florida was elated recently when he won first place with a speech and an invitation to compete in the 4-H Tropicana Public Speech Contest. However, his assistant principal the
Schools in Meridian, Idaho went into full “prison mode” after a student who brought a folding shovel to Heritage Middle School in Meridian, Idaho prompted the school’s “resource officer” to call for a full lockdown.
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.
"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.
At the King Ecgbert School in Sheffield, teens who go to the loo are never really alone - video cameras are inside all 12 bathrooms. King Ecgbert as one of more than 200 high schools across Britain that have installed surveillance cameras in bathroom
The Chicago teachers’ strike will head into its third day on Wednesday, after the latest round of talks ended Tuesday night without a deal to bring teachers back to work, and the head of the Chicago Teachers Union describing their progress as “glacia
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Salary figures provided by the Chicago Public Schools show teachers here have the highest average salary of any city in the nation. According to the Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago teachers rank second behind New York City.
26 Chicago Public School employees are accused of lying on federal school lunch forms, allowing their 45 kids to receive free or reduced-price lunches at 40 schools across the district. 12 principals were removed from their schools
Quotas limiting the number of male students in science may be imposed by the Education Department in 2013.
There is this old saying that little knowledge is dangerous. I re-capsulized and modernized this old aphorism to mean the Ignorance of the Learned [IOTL] – a formidable threat to National Security. In educating the American pe
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Dear Mr. Hancock and Lovers of Freedom: On November 6th, 2012, there are dozens of Unified School District override questions, on the ballot, throughout Maricopa County. I need assistance in producing a very strong, forceful argument, "Agains
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Yet another school has jumped on the RFID tracking of their students.
The bracelets, donated to public schools, measure how well the skin conducts electricity, which varies with its moisture level.
The parents of a 13-year-old boy in Virginia Beach who was suspended for touching the American flag say that their son was unfairly treated because he is black.
After a judge in Texas sentenced a 17-year-old girl to a night in jail for missing school, critics across the country responded by condemning the court’s decision.
Via KHOU-11/Huffington Post: "Diane Tran, a 17-year-old honor student in Texas, was forced to spend the night in jail last week after missing too many classes
“If you let one of ‘em run loose, what are you gon’ do with the rest of ‘em, let them go too?” the judge offered as justification. "A little stay in jail is not a death sentence."
A School District plans to track students on its campuses using technology implanted in their student identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of its schools and all of its nearly 100,000 students.
It didn’t occur to me that the six-foot fence around the perimeter was meant to keep me in. That is, until the day I decided to leave.
It is time to end the public schools. I just heard about a little boy—a six-year-old in First Grade—who is being treated like a sex criminal by the drooling half-wits who run the Aurora (Colorado) school system because he quoted an
School officials said D’Avonte was suspended for sexual harassment after he sang and the line to a female classmate who was standing in a lunch line. It wasn’t the first time he’d serenaded this girl with this particular lyric.
A Pennsylvania school district on Monday moved to quash a subpoena asking for psychological and other records of one of the 10 boys Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky is accused of sexually abusing.
Nothing much happened last week. Except that Ben Bernanke told investors that the fix was in…and the stock market went up. The chief of America’s central bank told the world that he was prepared for more QE whenever it was needed.
In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that compelling students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance violated their First Amendment rights.
Why is it the State of Florida continues to listen to lobbyist’s and those who choose to have a financial interest in our children’s education rather than really caring about what is actually happening to our children? Many of us here in Florida h
My recent post on the question of food deserts and people's eating habits led me to a topic I haven't touched in a while: school lunches.
Education is the new Republican enemy. No more free thinking and empirical evidence, just the Bible, rumour and Fox News
Acting police chief, Dray Swicord, said he stands by an officer's decision to handcuff an elementary school student for safety Friday after she allegedly threw a tantrum. Swicord said the arresting officer is not under investigation for his action
