North Park University announced on May 9 that senior Michael Nelson of Bangor, Maine, has been awarded the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Scholarship. He is the sixth student…
The Louisiana House's budget committee wants to cap salaries for the state's education superintendent and college leaders, arguing Monday the compensation has grown too fast and is out…
A woman said Monday that an Ohio charter school is punishing her daughter for not immediately reporting that she saw two classmates having sex on a school bus…
A ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday cast doubt on the future of 17 charter schools there, leaving thousands of families uncertain about whether classes will…
While most students learn about Nazi Germany through books and movies, Naperville, Ill. middle schoolers have done real detective work to reunite two Holocaust survivors after 73 years,…
As the "green" movement sweeps across the nation, prompting citizens to buy organic produce and reduce their energy consumption, schools are following suit with lesson plans that teach…
A national animal rights group has offered a cash-strapped Pennsylvania school district an undisclosed amount of money if it allows ads in school promoting the use of virtual…
If state education cuts are drastic, the librarians' only chance of keeping a paycheck is to prove they're qualified to be switched to classroom teaching. So LAUSD attorneys…
By accepting a job as superintendent of a new Tennessee school district, Chris Barbic has positioned himself as the face of an up-and-coming governance model for reforming failing…
A new Commerce Department website aims to give schools, libraries and job training centers the tools to help teach computer and Internet skills to Americans who are new…
A Georgia school district that lost its accreditation due to its "dysfunctional" school board has been taken off probation by a national standards agency, the Associated Press reports.
A teen who was exonerated in connection with a Massachusetts classmate's bullying-related suicide says he's grateful to her family for asking prosecutors to drop the charge against him,…
Social media and content sharing websites account for one-third of plagiarism among college students, and paper mills are far less popular than once thought, according to a report…
Who's better at teaching difficult physics to a class of more than 250 college students: the highly rated veteran professor using time-tested lecturing, or the inexperienced graduate students…
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.
Wasn’t it just the other day that teachers confiscated cellphones and principals warned about oversharing on MySpace? Now, Erin Olson, an English teacher in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, is…
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