In a classroom of 23 third- and fourth-graders at Desert Mountain Elementary School, piles of gems and minerals are spread across miniature desks. Mardy Zimmermann, a retiree volunteering with the Earth Science Museum, holds up an arrowhead carved from a dark…
Common Core, a curriculum that has faced criticism from religious groups, has found an ally in the largest organization of Hispanic Christians in the U.S.
Magma Ranch K-8 School 6th Grade Science teacher Edralin Pagarigan has been accepted as a presenter at the National Middle Level Science Teachers Association in Boston on April 4.
They didn’t have cute kids holding up signs blasting the controversial set of academic standards known as Common Core. They didn’t have fired-up parents taking the day off to rail against the standards.
Without the chanting, poster-waving children and cheers of the previous day, a button-downed coalition of business and education groups staged a Capitol press conference on Wednesday pledging to counter the message of Tuesday’s rally in opposition to the Common Core…
cross East Texas, the number of teachers who left school districts in 2012-13 largely increased compared with the year before, along with the state average. The biggest change for many districts was a loss of experienced teachers as, officials said,…
Portland Public Schools teachers have authorized the first strike in the history of Oregon's largest school system and set a walkout date: Feb. 20. Nearly 3,000 Portland Association of Teachers members gathered behind closed doors at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Wednesday and…
Brothers Emmanuel Hatcher and Johnathan Harper sat beside each other in a big upholstered chair while they took turns reading aloud from a book.The boys on Saturday were among children and adults reading aloud passages of books and poems by black writers during this…
Michelle Obama has a message for students considering college: File for federal financial aid. The first lady said Wednesday that filing the form is an important first step for students who want to finish their education but that too many of…
A new report on school funding reveals how uneven and unfair public school funding is in states across the country. The report, titled “Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card,” looks at funding data from 2007 through 2011, analyzing the condition of state…
A constitutional amendment to dip into the state government’s largest endowment to pay for early childhood education programs advanced Wednesday in the Senate.
More Florida students should be able to attend classes (or schools) that teach only boys or only girls, a Florida House panel decided Tuesday. There are 54 gender-specific schools in Florida now, including Woodward Avenue Elementary in DeLand.
President Obama announced plans on Tuesday to bring high-speed Internet more quickly to the nation’s public schools, pledging to make sure students in the United States have every advantage that "some child in South Korea has right now." After all, Obama told a…
The vast majority of states adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in 2010, the first year they were available, but lack of adequate staff and expertise on CCSS presented a major challenge to the implementation, according to a new report from…
Jim Shelton, the acting deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, isn't putting his money on a big, bipartisan preschool bill coming out of Congress anytime soon—even though it's a high priority agenda item for U.S. Secretary of Education…
Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, a Republican candidate for governor, on Tuesday called on Connecticut’s education commissioner to resign, saying he has failed to implement Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s key education initiatives.
