A bill passed Friday by the Tennessee Senate would forbid public school teachers and students in grades kindergarten through eight from discussing the fact that some people are…
As different districts and states re-imagine the way teachers should be graded, the country's second largest school system has hit a roadblock, reports the Huffington Post.
Trying to make his case for overhauling the nation's education laws, President Barack Obama is highlighting progress at a Tennessee high school as evidence that the proper incentives…
A riveting first-person account describes a series of hearings conducted this month by the Los Angeles Unified School District to determine whether school librarians are qualified to remain…
A handful of outspoken teachers helped persuade state lawmakers this spring to eliminate seniority-based layoff policies, reports the New York Times. They testified before the legislature, wrote briefing…
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at a summit that social networking sites can be a tool for education and that Facebook should be able to open its…
The Middleton-Cross Plains School Board has spent about $300,000 in the last year fighting a grievance filed on behalf of a teacher fired after an investigation found he…
Bloomberg News reports on a U.S. government study that found that developmental disabilities among American children increased 17 percent in the past decade led by a rise in…
Even as the iPad remains the favorite son of the magazine business, publishers are discovering that the Barnes & Noble Nook Color is a very promising younger daughter,…
How will students learn key information literacy skills, and how will teachers get help with integrating digital resources into their instruction, without a full-time media specialist in their…
Apple devotees are notorious for their steadfast dedication to the computer and gadget manufacturer, standing in line for hours and sometimes days just to be the first to…
Amazon.com Inc. on May 19 said that, after less than four years of selling electronic books, it's now selling more of them than printed books, the Associated Press…
A for-profit university operated by real estate mogul Donald Trump is being investigated by the New York Attorney General's office, the Associated Press reports. A spokesman for the…
The long-awaited overhaul of the nine-year-old No Child Left Behind law has begun in the U.S. House of Representatives with the first in a series of targeted bills—but…
Don Bosco Charter High School, which already announced that it would close in June, needs to return $256,000 in allegedly misappropriated federal funds, the state announced on May…
Hearing gossip about people can change the way you see them — literally, NPR reports. Negative gossip actually alters the way our visual system responds to a particular…
Budget-conscious colleges and universities are finding digital signage not only helps them improve their campus-wide communications and emergency messaging, but many discover that it’s cost-effective and eco-friendly. And…
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