Bullying once was viewed as a childhood rite of passage, but now it is recognized as having lifelong implications for physical and mental health. Since 2006, October has been designated National Bullying Prevention Month.
After gaining speed slowly over the last two decades, a movement to start the school day later for middle and high school students just got a massive boost from California. When Gov. Gavin Newsom last week signed the nation’s first…
The ceremony had the feel of a church service. Standing at the end of a block lined mostly with empty storefronts, officials wielded a crackly PA system, their voices carrying over the din of coal trucks that rumbled through the…
Stunning surveillance footage captured the moment a high school coach in Oregon disarmed a student with a shotgun and then held him in his arms. Keanon Lowe, a football and track and field coach at Parkrose High School, can be…
Teens love the app, and now it’s getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get ... fun?
An Alaska school district has introduced a new computer monitoring program prompting concerns over student privacy and data collection. The Juneau School District installed and launched the Bark program Sept. 13, Juneau Empire reported . An email was sent Sept.…
Marlon Anderson told the student to stop referring to him by a racial epithet, which officials at a Wisconsin high school said violated a zero-tolerance policy on offensive language.
Technology has the potential to decentralize K-12 education and make it more learner-directed, upending a top-down system in favor of individual autonomy and self-determination. But the technology can’t do this alone. It requires a learning environment that fosters creativity and…
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is calling on the Chicago Teachers Union to end its strike even before negotiations result in an agreement. In a Monday letter to CTU President Jesse Sharkey, the mayor and Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson…
As California schools implement the state’s new science standards, parents at one high school are objecting to a teaching approach they say is short-changing students. At Northwood High School in the Irvine Unified School District, students are required to take…
The arms of a dark blue robot unfurled and lifted up a disk with Velcro edges. Carefully, it maneuvered to a tall tower with circular holes cut into it. The driver carefully manipulated the machine to place the disk over…
A northwestern New Mexico school district near the Navajo Nation is looking to contracted teachers from the Philippines amid a teacher shortage.
Interim State Education Commissioner Beth Berlin, who was named acting schools chief in July after MaryEllen Elia announced she was stepping down, is leaving the post Nov. 15, officials announced Friday. Berlin, who took over as acting commissioner Sept. 1,…
The New Mexico Public Education Department announced Friday it has adopted the nonprofit College Board’s SAT as the state’s new official high school assessment. The moves comes as part of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s effort to replace unpopular standardized exams…
When Miguel Villarreal addresses a crowded education conference, a group of school district administrators or a room full of curious parents, he often holds aloft a foil-wrapped package of Pop-Tarts — the heavily processed, high-sugar snack routinely sold on school campuses.
