A Phoenix man authorities say threatened to bomb Harvard University and shoot people who attended black commencement has been sentenced to more than a year in prison. A federal judge in Boston sentenced 25-year-old Nicholas Zuckerman on Wednesday to a…
She rode the bus to school as part of a school desegregation effort. He opposed busing as a means to achieve integration. Sen. Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden sparring on the Democratic presidential debate stage has pushed…
His bed was snugly made, and four pair of sneakers formed a neat line beneath his extra-long twin bed. An iron that Dajon Duvall borrowed from his dorm’s residential adviser sat on a wooden desk that was crammed on his…
With seven weeks to go before students are back in the classroom, schools across Detroit are on the hunt for a hot commodity: Certified teachers. In the Detroit school district, for example, recruiters are trying to fill 120 vacancies. Many…
Roughly one-third of teenagers have summer jobs, according to the Pew Research Center. Some of these jobs may make you very familiar with the letters “SPF.” But every working student should know a different abbreviation to avoid getting burned: EFC.…
On one of the last afternoons of the school year, five women sat around a table in an Amana Elementary classroom, trading tips and making plans to meet the mental health needs of their school district’s students. As school counselors,…
teve Bullock, Montana’s governor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, says he doesn't think a Montana school choice case that the Supreme Court recently agreed to hear is the "right case" for overturning precedent on the provision of public money for…
School choice advocates celebrated after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a closely watched Montana case that could have big implications for the use of public funds to pay for private religious schools. Pushed by a libertarian group in Arlington,…
Social workers and mental health professionals are trying to have the detention of migrant children away from their families treated as child abuse. Almost 6,000 people have signed a petition started by social workers to file a "report of suspected…
Five new lawsuits have been filed more than two years after a natural gas explosion caused part of a Minneapolis school to collapse, killing two people and injuring nine others. The lawsuits say CenterPoint Energy and Master Mechanical knew their…
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has approved Georgia’s plan to pilot alternative assessments to the Milestones tests given to public school students each year. DeVos also approved North Carolina’s submission for an alternative test to satisfy the annual testing…
Gym floor and school track manufacturers for schools will face tighter regulations, after the discovery of mercury-tainted fumes closed gymnasiums in districts across the state. This month, the New Jersey Schools Development Authority reported it would, for the first time,…
On July 20, more than 200 firearm instructors across the country will train teachers how to shoot a gun and handle a weapon. The courses are being offered for free, as part of the second annual National Train a Teacher…
Twin brothers Erin and Evan Addison had never heard a podcast before joining the podcasting club at their school. And they managed to convince their best friend, Andrew Arevalo, to join as well. "We were just looking for a hobby…
The Defense Department wants more Americans to speak Chinese, and it provides millions of dollars to train students at U.S. universities. China's government, through language centers known as Confucius Institutes, has been doing the same thing, for the same reasons,…
