When thousands of seniors in the Elk Grove area receive their high school diplomas in the coming weeks, some will wear caps and gowns free of charge. Parents have long shelled out money for caps and gowns, along with yearbooks and…
Common Core standards have been derided as a federal takeover of state education by some conservative critics. But a poll shows support for the reforms, even among GOP primary voters.
Nearly a year after a tornado ripped through Oklahoma, killing seven students in a crushed elementary school, officials disagree over whether state or local money should pay for school storm shelters, a debate that has taken on political overtones in a…
“Trust, but verify,” a great man once said — sound advice for judging government in general, and municipal labor relations in particular. So flash back to Thursday’s grip-and-grin in City Hall’s ceremonial Blue Room, wherein Mayor de Blasio, teachers union…
As the District works to confront rampant truancy in city schools, national standardized test data show that D.C. students are absent from school more than the national average and more than almost all other large U.S. cities.
President Barack Obama's Race to the Top competition unleashed a wave of changes in how public schools evaluate teachers, try to turn around low-performing campuses, and teach math and reading. But as the program's four-year grant period nears an end…
Multiple bombs. An arsenal of guns. Months of detailed planning for killing his family and then unleashing explosives and bullets on his classmates at Waseca’s junior and senior high school. It was all meant to happen on April 20, the 15th…
Lawmakers are balking at plans to give Common Core-based exams to kids in Michigan schools next school year, pushing for a pause of the tests expected to replace assessments the state has used for nearly 45 years.
When Strand McCutchen decided he wanted to become a Web developer, he holed up in his brother's apartment for a few months and taught himself the programming language Ruby. Now McCutchen, 31, teaches others to code at Dev Bootcamp, an intensive vocational school that…
Over the past several years, the Shanghai public school system has drawn global envy—and stirred controversy—by acing an international test given every few years by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that seeks to measure the quality…
Bullying victims are sneaking hundreds of thousands of firearms, knives and clubs into U.S. high schools, according to a chilling new analysis that carries the eerie echoes of one recent mass school assault and two potential near misses. Extrapolating from a…
Robots can capture a child’s imagination like no other tool by creating a fun, physical learning process. With robots, kids learn programming via interactive play by moving a robot in various sequences and using intuitive, visual programming on a computer…
Kelby Watson stood outside his apartment on a cold April morning, scanning the parking lot for his school bus. The 16-year-old’s mother, Teresa, walked outside to meet him. Kelby looked at her over his shoulder and reached for his voice, which lives inside a…
With the growing Latino population — and a young one at that — many institutions are thinking about new ways to teach children English while also reinforcing their Spanish native language. One local college pioneering innovative ways to teach bilingual…
Seven HISD teachers and their union are suing the school district to try to end job evaluations tied to students' test scores, arguing the method is arbitrary, unfair and in violation of their due-process rights. The lawsuit, filed in federal court…
Prosecutors say police likely foiled a planned school massacre when they arrested a teenager after he revealed an elaborate plot to kill his family and bomb the junior and senior high school.
