Even though Ohio Issue 2 (Senate Bill 5) failed in last week's election, that does not mean merit-based pay is no longer a possibility for Ohio teachers, Yahoo!…
In last night's Republican debate, several of the candidates reiterated their resolve to get rid of the Department of Education if elected, says Angie Mohr for Yahoo! News.
Why are teachers unions afraid or performance evaluations and merit based pay? None of the arguments offered in opposition commercial and literature holds water and many of the…
Political correctness is ruining school celebrations once again. It seems like there is at least one story every October in recent years relating to Halloween parties at public…
Book-banning used to take place most often at a very local level. Even then it would make headlines if a classic work of literature was banned or removed…
Detroit Public Schools plans to cut 40 percent of its current teaching staff by fall 2015. Deep staffing cuts are part of a deficit-reducing effort by Gov. Rick…
When I first came across Brightworks, the new private school opening this September in the Mission District in San Francisco, a light bulb went off in my head,…
For 10 years, hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals changed answers on state tests in one of the largest cheating scandals in U.S. history, according to…
Tablet computers have actually been on the market for some time. However, it wasn't until the iPad came out that the tablet format really took off, Yahoo! News…
The nation's largest teachers union may soon endorse a policy statement encouraging the use of standardized test scores in evaluating teacher performance in the classroom, reports Yahoo! News.
Should every child in America have an iPad? That's what a rather provocative article over at Cult of Mac editorialized this weekend, to cries of both support and…
According to Yahoo! News, the more often you use "interactive" electronics like cell phones or video games right before bed, the more likely it is you'll miss out…
Two of the biggest complaints about Microsoft's mobile OS reboot--no multitasking for third-party apps, and no cutting and pasting--will be fixed before the year is out, with the…