More than 20 Chinese exchange students who recently arrived in northern Virginia will be unable to visit their host school because of concerns over a disease outbreak. Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church announced Wednesday that the students and chaperones…
In 2015, a Boston University student was assaulted in her dorm room. The perpetrator was an unescorted visitor on campus. Her door was allegedly unlocked. Now she’s suing the school for not protecting her. In another case, Massachusetts’s highest court…
New apartment buildings, new breweries, expanding public transit: central Denver is booming. Greenlee Elementary, a school just southwest of downtown in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, is not. Over the last few years, its enrollment has dropped precipitously, falling from nearly…
Examine the grades and scores that states and the nation earned on the Chance-for-Success Index in Quality Counts 2020, along with how they scored on a host of socioeconomic and other indicators that go into those rankings.
A bill to require police officers assigned to Kentucky schools to be armed won unanimous approval Thursday from the Senate Education Committee. The committee action, advancing the measure to the full Senate, came on the second anniversary of the shooting…
When asked which reading researchers' work they introduce to preservice classes, professors of education point to a mix of experts, some of whose ideas conflict with the research on reading, an Education Week survey found.
A new class on cooking, cleaning and budgeting could be coming to West Virginia schools under a bill passed Thursday by the Senate. Lawmakers voted 33-0 to approve the proposal to have the state education board come up with a…
When Indiana leaders took over five failing schools nearly a decade ago, the decision was an act of desperation. The campuses were languishing: Fights frequently broke out in the hallways and students spent class time filling out McDonald’s job applications.…
Arnoldo Vargas’ life hasn’t changed much since last January when he joined thousands of Los Angeles teachers in a momentous six-day strike. He drives the same 2006 Camry, has no more than 41 students in his art classes compared to…
Nine people were injured, including a child who was airlifted to a hospital, when a school bus and a dump truck collided Tuesday afternoon on a state highway in northeast Arkansas, authorities said. Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said…
West Virginia's public schools superintendent wants the state Board of Education not to reduce the number of social studies courses required for high school graduation. Superintendent Steve Paine said in a statement Monday that he will make the recommendation based…
The Seventy Four (1/17, Zinshteyn) reports a new study found that Newark students assigned to charter schools “showed greater improvements on standardized test scores in math and English than they would if they were placed in district-run schools.” The study’s approach “neutralizes some of…
Students can’t be expected to learn anything in school unless they attend class. And teachers aren’t teaching class unless they show up at school. It’s that simple, so it’s no wonder that Superintendent Phil Thornton is making a big deal…
A year after some 30,000 teachers walked out of their classrooms and upended the daily routine of more than half a million students and their families, most parents and teachers would be hard-pressed to see defining differences in classrooms and…
NASA is almost ready to send its next rover to Mars. Engineers have tested the robot's wheels and tried out its cameras. All it needs now is a name. The rover, which is temporarily dubbed Mars 2020, is scheduled to launch on…
