The principal parked her laptop on a student's desk at the junction of two second-floor corridors at Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Her to-do list hovered in the hundreds, but it was 2 p.m., time for…
Kimba Rael admits that she's her own worst critic, despite being honored for her work teaching language arts in tiny Centennial School District in San Luis. This year, Rael and every other public school educator in Colorado find themselves in the…
Third-graders who fail to meet state literacy standards may be held back under new rules being considered by the Iowa State Board of Education. But some experts say that's not the route to go. Under the proposed rules, parents of a…
Eight Idaho schools are participating in a statewide pilot project intended to prevent suicides among young people ages 10 to 24. The Idaho Lives Project is a partnership between the state Department of Education and the Suicide Prevention Action Network of…
The revamped GED exam does away with pencil-to-paper test sheets. High school equivalency exams from two other test providers will let students take tests on paper or computer.
After an extended period of layoffs and hiring freezes, the Los Angeles Unified School District has resumed bringing on new teachers, while also being more selective about their quality than in the past. The nation's second-largest school system forecasts hiring 1,333 instructors for…
Public schools in this Appalachian town pocked with shuttered factories and vacant storefronts got an average of $8,362 to spend on each student's education in 2013, the least they had gotten in five years. Several hours away, at the public K-8…
Members of the Alaska House of Representatives' Sustainable Education Task Force had a heated argument about the group's fundamental conclusion Tuesday as the task force prepared its final recommendations before the upcoming legislative session Jan. 21. The task force, created by…
With Governor Andrew Cuomo sharing the stage just behind him on Inauguration Day, Mayor Bill de Blasio trumpeted his plan for the wealthy to pay more to fund pre-kindergarten. He even put a price tag on it: roughly $973 in…
Students in the seventh and eighth grades no longer face the prospect of being "double-tested" in mathematics after the U.S. Department of Education approved a state-requested waiver, Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. said Thursday. The federal action means that those…
A growing number of educators and parents say they're worried about the tests being developed and tied to new, more rigorous standards in reading and math. The test results will be used to gauge students' progress and also evaluate teachers,…
The new leader of the nation's biggest public school system started her job Thursday with storm clouds brewing — the clouds that had a new city administration weighing whether to call a snow day for 1.1 million students. But Carmen Farina had…
U.S. regulators said on Thursday they were permanently relaxing school meal rules that were designed to combat childhood obesity by reining in calories and portion sizes but aroused complaints the policies caused students to go hungry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced several key grants and investments in alternative-fuel vehicles, including the launch of an electric school bus pilot. According to a spokesperson involved in the Clinton Global Initiative’s Electric School Bus Demonstration, the Commonwealth began the…
Only weeks before a chemistry experiment sent a plume of fire across a Manhattan high school science lab, engulfing two students and leaving one with life-threatening burns, a federal safety agency issued a video warning of the dangers of the very same…
Websites are destinations, but the Learning Registry is meant to offer something different. Its backers describe it as a online highway, or a network of roads designed to bring educators to the content they want. More specifically, the tool developed by the U.S. Department of Education…
