State attorneys on Monday filed a motion seeking to remove the presiding judge in the long-running Texas school finance case because of alleged improper communications - primarily e-mails - between the judge and lawyers for the plaintiff school districts.
A 16-year-old student charged with stabbing 20 fellow students and a security guard at his suburban Pittsburgh high school waived his right to a preliminary hearing Monday. By waiving the hearing, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, Alex Hribal and…
Many school districts across the country are unprepared to support the bandwidth it takes to accommodate new education trends in digital learning and testing. In fact, fewer than one in three of America’s classrooms have Internet access, according to the…
A national report described as a first-of-its-kind road map for improving discipline practices in U.S. public schools was released Tuesday, with 60 recommendations intended to help schools reduce suspensions and create better learning conditions.
Lawmakers are singing the praises of new online courses that are reducing costs and freeing students from the constraints of the classroom. The increase in online courses has been particularly pronounced at colleges and universities, which are using new technology…
Does handwriting matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, the emphasis quickly shifts to…
The Obama administration says it is on track to meet its goal of ensuring that every school has high-speed Internet within five years. President Obama unveiled the broadband initiative in 2013 and urged the independent Federal Communications Commission to expand…
Not long ago, nearly every state and the District of Columbia had adopted Common Core, the tough new math and reading standards for elementary-through-high-school students that have been favored by the Obama administration. But in recent months, as more states…
The ʻAha Pūnana Leo’s Hawaiian language preschools have just been granted by the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC) the first ever accreditation of an early education program conducted through an endangered and indigenous language worldwide. A distinguished team…
Wwhen a critical mass of the nation’s foremost experts on educating black boys gathered in Jackson last month to hobnob, commiserate and impart their latest findings on how to get positive outcomes with this much-maligned population, it had the breathtaking…
College costs were make or break for New Rochelle High School senior Matisse Clayton: With a lot of help from Mom and her color-coded files, she applied to 18 colleges, was accepted at four, and won a full ride at…
As Mayor de Blasio plans a dramatic expansion of free pre-K programs, a Daily News investigation has found community-based groups that run pre-K centers have collectively been hit with 39,000 violations from 2009 through last year. The long list of…
It's been a little more than a year since seven children were killed when a massive tornado destroyed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, but their families are still no closer to the goal of placing storm shelters in every…
In the heart of Watts, where violence in nearby housing projects can spill over onto campuses, two of the city's toughest middle schools have long dealt with fights, drugs and even weapons. Administrators typically have handled these problems by suspending…
A bill that would allow specially trained teachers to carry concealed weapons in the classroom is coming under fire from some Missouri teachers. Lawmakers in Jefferson City said the legislation would protect students from intruders and reduce the risk of…
About 45,000 students have tried out a new set of state proficiency exams meant to replace two LEAP and iLEAP tests next year, the Louisiana Department of Education announced Sunday (June 1). The Common Core mathematics and English standards have been adopted…
