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Everything we know about the hero teachers from the California shooting
As details emerged from Thursday's shooting at Taft High School in Taft, California, the teacher present in the classroom and a classroom supervisor emerged as heroes for successfully talking the…
College degrees protected recent grads from great recession’s worst
It was a defining image of the Great Recession: floundering college grads stuck back home, living in mom and dad's basement. But while rooted in some truth, that picture doesn't…
Report: Most kids who need mental health care don’t get it
Hot off the presses, here's a report from the Government Accountability Office on the state of children's mental health care. It reveals some major problems, the Huffington Post reports.…
No one knows how many vets graduate: Why it’s a problem
The federal government has spent more than $20 billion helping 817,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan go to college, the Huffington Post reports. …
How a school library thrives–without books
The library at Minneapolis' Benilde-St. Margaret's has no books, but the space at the Catholic preparatory school is proving to be more useful than ever – digitally, the Huffington Post…
Calif. teachers fund moves to divest from firearms
The nation's largest teacher pension fund took the first step Wednesday toward divesting from companies that make guns and high-capacity ammunition magazines that are illegal in California, the Associated Press…
What English classes should look like in Common Core era
The recent controversy over how much fiction and non-fiction high school students are supposed to read under the Common Core State Standards begged the question of where the 70 percent…
‘Virtual’ public schools draw interest of religious families
Worried about exposure to foul language, immodest dress, peer pressure and other inappropriate behavior, Susan Brown didn't want her two daughters attending public schools -- even though she's a substitute…
Laptops go up against tablets at Consumer Electronics Show
At the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the laptop is attempting a comeback: The stodgy clamshell design is being cast aside by manufacturers who are trying to…
Hundreds of Texas, Ohio teachers flock to gun training
School teachers in Texas are flocking to free firearms classes and hundreds more in Ohio have signed up for training in the wake of the Connecticut elementary school massacre, some…



