Stop sending unsafe buses on the road. That was the message on the sign school bus driver Felicia Anderson held up at a Charleston County School Board meeting Monday night where she and several others aired their concerns over school bus…
The Missouri Senate endorsed a budget plan Monday that ensures a funding increase for public education but will require negotiations with the House to hammer out the final specifics.
Last month the FDA introduced a plan for a food label makeover. Under the new regulations, food labels will provide a greater emphasis on calorie counts and sugar. The plan has once again brought nutrition to the forefront of the health conversation.…
If you are wondering how the high-stakes standardized testing season is going around the country — including field testing of new Common Core-aligned standardized exams — here’s the answer: Not so great.
Some school corporations in Indiana are opting to use pencils and paper for the state's standardized tests instead of risking another round of technology problems like those that dogged last year's tests.
The lack of racial diversity among Massachusetts teachers — a growing concern across the state — can be traced to an insufficient number of people of color enrolling in educator programs at local colleges, according to a Globe review of…
Four-year high school graduation rates hit 80 percent, capping a decade of significant improvement and suggesting that US schools can hit even more ambitious goals by 2020.
The issue has been argued nationwide since school shootings at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary, Virginia Tech University, Columbine High School in Colorado and others. One side says armed officials are better equipped to handle emergency situations. The other argues that…
The father-son owners of two Illinois-based tutoring companies, which did business with Dallas ISD in recent years, have been accused of bribing school officials in other districts, including San Antonio.
Raising U.S. educational expectations through national goals was a priority for Republican President George W. Bush. But many of his would-be successors in the GOP are calling for just the opposite of government-set rules, and it's splitting the party as…
Louisiana Education Superintendent John White stood behind his support of Common Core State Standards and the accompanying test Friday, claiming he and Gov. Bobby Jindal are having an inevitable difference of opinion in the midst of many successful educational collaborations.
Missouri could become the second state to drop new education benchmarks if lawmakers approve legislation to require the state to start the process of writing its own student performance standards.
Forty students in bright yellow shirts hunched over their computers in Singapore's Crescent Girls School as they raced against their teacher's digital stopwatch. They had just a few minutes to add their thoughts about a short film on discrimination into…
Governor Deval Patrick has signed H. 3909, “An Act Relative to Bullying in Schools.” The legislation requires school districts, charter schools, approved private-day schools, residential schools and collaborative schools to develop bullying prevention plans that will ensure they remain safe…
Educators and administrators are examining ways to address truancy and persistent absenteeism. Last school year, about 15,000 D.C. Public Schools students — 32 percent of all students in pre-kindergarten through high school — missed more than 10 days of classes without…
The Obama administration is making a second attempt to regulate the way the country prepares its classroom teachers, saying training programs should be held accountable to improve the quality of K-12 teachers.
