As the first state to drop the national Common Core learning standards, Indiana is rushing to approve new state-crafted benchmarks in time for teachers to use them this fall, and education leaders from across the nation are closely watching.
Inundated with job applications and short on time and human resources, school districts across the country are turning to technology to help them sort through possible candidates and determine their potential effectiveness in the classroom. Here’s how three districts are…
In the midst of national efforts to promote disciplinary policies that keep children in the classroom, legislation that would limit the length of suspensions for all but the most serious infractions and put an end to disciplinary fines is under…
Despite being widely known and universally condemned, the stark gap in teacher quality between schools serving large concentrations of minority students and those educating mainly white students has proved frustratingly difficult to address.
Through 13 years of teaching, Jennifer Kavanaugh never dreamed of hitting a child - not even once. Kavanaugh, now a fifth-grade teacher at St. Margaret of Scotland School in St. Louis, previously taught in a school where children were physically punished…
A three-minute video suicide note posted on YouTube by a 16-year-old Louisville high school student who killed herself moments later left school officials scrambling Tuesday to try to protect other students from the ensuing social media frenzy.
Gov. Bobby Jindal has said he is willing to withdraw Louisiana from a consortium of states developing the assessment associated with the Common Core academic standards if the Louisiana Legislature doesn't choose to do so on its own.
The third- and fourth-grade members of the Girl Power! club at Gomez Heritage Elementary School are bent over poster-size sheets of paper, thinking hard.
Fingertips of dozens of high school students' hands reached toward the ceiling of Senate Committee Room C in the Louisiana State Capitol on Tuesday (April 15) as Sen. Francis Thompson, R-Delhi, engaged the young scholars in the democratic process.
Local education officials in Kansas say they're pleased with the school funding changesstate lawmakers agreed to earlier this month to satisfy a state Supreme Court ruling on education aid, but they say the solution doesn't provide the ideal level of long-term…
Oak Ridge Schools is attempting to become the premier district in the nation for science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, education. Superintendent Bruce Borchers has a $3.4 million plan to make that happen using Microsoft Surface tablets and Discovery…
One area of intense interest to many people paying attention to this issue is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, enacted in 1974 to help protect children's educational records from unwarranted disclosure
Fish sticks just aren't cutting it anymore. The frozen-fish industry has faced a problem of making the easy dinner staple more appealing, especially to children at home and in school.
States and districts would be encouraged to help grow high-quality charter schools—and ensure that they enroll and retain English-language learners and students in special education—under a bipartisan bill approved overwhelmingly by the House Education and the Workforce Committee last week.
A Pennsylvania teenager is appealing a disorderly conduct conviction for recording students who he said were bullying him, according to his attorney.
The College Board on Wednesday released sample questions and other materials for a redesigned SAT, promising a test that is grounded in students' real-world experiences and more focused on knowledge and skills needed to succeed in college and careers.
