A California teacher has reportedly been arrested after a video of her appearing to forcibly cut a student’s hair during class while belting out the national anthem went viral. Margaret Gieszinger, a science teacher at the University Preparatory High School…
Student safety is a high priority for Montana’s public schools chief Elsie Arntzen, who plans to ask the 2019 Legislature to make it a crime for teachers and other school staff to have sex with students, even students ages 16…
These kindergarteners are just learning to read, but managed to learn how to sign something very special for their school’s custodian.
Education reformers must draw a distinction between education and schooling as they face opposition to changes to the traditional school system, Sen. Ben Sasse said Thursday. “Education is a goal. Schooling is one of many means to the end, or…
It was bound to happen. A paper published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute suggested that the country may be putting too much emphasis on STEM and obscuring the "noncognitive skills" that are really needed, such as persistence and "character."…
Three girls explode into laughter and cheers as they roll a small cart across the table, successfully getting a rubber band to launch the cart just fast enough to knock a washer off the back of the cart, but not…
Wisconsin school district officials have unveiled a plan that they hope will instill more empathy and understanding in students after a photo recently surfaced showing several dozen high schoolers giving what appears to be a Nazi salute. In a letter…
Zach Cassidento sat in the passenger seat of a police car as it drove up the steep driveway to his modest two-story home in Bethany, Connecticut, and parked outside. Officers headed to Zach’s bedroom on the lower level, a cluttered…
Twice last school year, Philadelphia homeless students lost out on special education services because the city School District failed to appoint advocates to fight for their rights. Now, the district must come up with a new system to make sure…
A new grant program is seeking U.S. schools to receive access to programs to address school safety. The "Safer Schools in America Impact Grant" will make a total of $25 million worth of in-kind safety solutions from 16 companies available…
An Ada lawmaker wants to change Oklahoma’s public school cutoff date so some children must wait longer before enrolling in pre-K and kindergarten. Senate Bill 11 seeks to change the state’s long-held cutoff date from Sept. 1 to July 1.…
"In less than 18 years, we have already seen more deaths related to school shootings than in the whole 20th century,” said Antonis Katsiyannis, Clemson University researcher and the lead author of a 2018 study on school shootings. “One alarming trend is…
Educating children with disabilities is among the most challenging parts of any school system’s mission. Special educators are responsible for delivering a “free and appropriate public education” to 6 million students nationwide with a wide range of complex needs—and do…
Congress must pass seven fiscal 2019 spending bills in order to fund multiple federal agencies, including the Justice Department, which doles out federal school safety grants. The spending bill signed by President Donald Trump in March, H.R. 1625 (115), authorized an…
The Trump administration is looking to bolster the nation's STEM education efforts through a new strategic plan titled "Charting a Course for Success: America's Strategy for STEM Education." The strategy has three aspirational goals: building strong foundations for STEM literacy; increasing diversity,…
