A student at Manhattan’s prestigious Beacon High School suffered horrific injuries — including having portions of his ears burned off — during a class experiment gone awry, his lawyer said at the start of a $27 million civil trial Monday.…
Pint-size keynote speakers at an Ocean Pollution Solutions summit on Friday offered some innovative sustainability ideas. Cutter Buckman's suggestion: Drones. "I think we should gather people to make drones and submarines to see garbage like candy wrappers and clean them…
House members have proposed more than four dozen education-related amendments to a pending fiscal 2020 spending bill, running the gamut from student loans and Title IX to school safety and English language learners. Under the House Democrats’ measure, which combines…
Makenzie Skovlund likes a challenge. The recent Black Hills State University graduate from Sturgis will spend a portion of her summer preparing for the first-of-its-kind classroom for students with autism in the Meade School District."Students with autism require a unique…
A new report indicates up to 3 million students in the United States struggle to stay on top of homework because they have no access to the internet at home. According to The Associated Press, these students exist in a “homework…
Differences in summer enrichment between poor and wealthy students may not contribute much to long-term achievement gaps, according to a new analysis. Researcher Paul von Hippel set out to replicate the landmark 1982 Beginning School Study, which tracked more than 800…
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a major new push to tackle segregation and improve opportunity for disadvantaged students in city public schools on Monday, though some say he hasn’t gone far enough. The Department of Education will adopt 62 of…
Students at Marian E. McKeown Elementary School got the opportunity to test out a variety of hands-on lessons in science, technology, engineering and mathematics during the school's second annual STEM Day. All students in the K-6 school were treated to…
Maryland lawmakers passed a sweeping education package in the latest General Assembly session and recently identified a work group whose task will be to find a way to pay for it. The 13-member work group that will take on the…
The Ohio Department of Education needs $50 million after short-changing hundreds of schools and others providing special education services to students with disabilities. At the department’s request, the state Controlling Board on Monday approved the release of a $30 million…
Closing the achievement gap has become one of the most critical educational challenges in California. As part of state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond’s new initiative to close that gap, he has created a working group to look closely…
Mentoring a student-teacher won't hurt a teacher's evaluation score—in fact, it might even give it a boost, according to a working study. The study analyzed data on more than 4,500 cooperating teachers in Tennessee between the 2010-2011 and 2013-2014 school years,…
The U.S. Agriculture Department has good news it seemingly wants nobody to know about. On April 23, the USDA released its “School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study,” with no news release, no fanfare. The link on the USDA website disappeared…
In the decades since two gunman attacked Columbine High School, ushering in a new era in which mass shootings have become commonplace in America, the building has turned into a tourism magnet for those curious about the school's dark history.…
Nothing had seemed off with the Big Spring basketball player. J.T. Kuhn's sophomore season had just ended, a campaign in which he helped pave the road to a Bulldog district playoff berth by averaging more than 10 points per game…
