A new state law instructs public school districts and charter networks to teach about tolerance, genocide and the Holocaust at every grade level starting this year, through participation in an annual “Holocaust Remembrance Week.” Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill…
Years ago, Ramesh Sivanpillai had a feeling that satellite images taken from afar could help bring some closer perspective to lessons being taught to Laramie students in elementary and middle school. It turns out he was on to something. Sivanpillai,…
Students and parents across the country are countering false or incomplete portrayals of their communities in textbooks and class lessons. Students, parents and educators are calling for material that reflects a diversity of experiences, saying it’s a matter of providing…
States frequently and successfully flexed their muscles when working with the federal government to get their Every Student Succeeds Act plans approved—but whether Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was smart to let them take that approach or often just let states…
Rhode Island lawmakers have advanced legislation aimed at reforming the state's education system and boosting academic performance by students. The House and Senate on Thursday backed separate versions of a bill that would require the state's education commissioner to develop…
This semester, Whittier Elementary School students were introduced to the underlying elements of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Joined by their parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents, the youngsters spent 15 weeks looking at local issues, learning the fundamentals of problem solving, and…
It's the time of year when high schools are saying goodbye to its seniors. And with graduation ceremonies come commencement speeches by top students.
Around $5 million worth of food goes to waste in school cafeterias every day. Many schools across the country are coming up with programs to try and solve the problem. One program in Georgia is now collecting the uneaten food and giving…
The Trump administration left behind a long paper trail as it pushed to get a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Many of those internal emails and memos became public as part of the lawsuits over the addition of thequestion, "Is…
“Oh my god, I feel like a murderer,” exclaimed 13-year-old Bonnie Bright. “I’ve killed so many things on this trip.” Sporting pigtails, glasses, and Xtratufs—the brown neoprene boots affectionately called “the Alaskan sneaker”—Bright didn’t look like a serial killer. Yet…
Emmanuel Mahgerefteh has wanted to attend Virginia Tech for as long as he can remember. When he was accepted after applying early to the engineering school, he was thrilled. So were his parents. But an email he received two weeks…
Tennessee’s statewide network of literacy coaches is being dismantled this month after funding for that program was not renewed in the budget proposed by Gov. Bill Lee and approved by the legislature. And the future of popular summer reading camps…
The Cleveland school board wants more information before deciding whether to rebuild, close or merge a few of its schools, including Tremont Montessori, the Dike School of the Arts and its separate boys and girls schools. The board won't have…
Frustrated by what she believes was bullying of her third-grade son, Jamie Rathburn entered Greenbrier Elementary School and emotionally confronted his classmates. She left the scene and was arrested three days later, charged with disturbing schools and booked into the Greenville County Detention…
Loribeth Chenault scrolls through her Facebook friends list. And it reads like a Who’s Who of former Milwaukee Public Schools teachers. This one left to teach in Oak Creek, she says, and this one in the Twin Cities. One now…
