In a recent "Question of the Week," we asked our readers: “'Tis the season to be giving! If you could give just one thing to your students/faculty/peers/school or…
Though epilepsy and Asperger's syndrome sometimes get in the way when Trenton Gilstrap socializes with his high school friends, his conditions haven't interfered with his educational dreams, CNN…
In its biggest single-day contribution ever, Google on Wednesday announced it has handed out $40 million to battle slavery, promote education and make technology more accessible worldwide, with…
While people all over the world are "occupying" their local governments, police have refused to intervene after a group of parents have occupied the Notre-Dame de Caderot school…
With a new year approaching, it's a great opportunity to re-evaluate what’s working—and what’s not—in your classroom, school, or district communications program. Here are five tips to power…
"I didn't want to put `Asian' down," Olmstead says, "because my mom told me there's discrimination against Asians in the application process," the Associated Press reports.
The classroom falls silent as the teacher explains that victims of violence go through specific psychological stages in the aftermath of an attack. Most of these students, though,…
The American Library Association has denounced the destruction of books at a library set up by Occupy Wall Street when New York police raided a park where protesters…
A Denver high school teacher brought her students to observe the Occupy Denver protest of Blogcon, a conservative blogger conference held in Denver, on Friday afternoon to see…
Michelle Obama told high school students taking part in a mentoring program at Georgetown University on Tuesday that being married to the president can be scary at times,…
More than 100 city librarians, community members and other Chicago Public Library supporters gathered outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office in City Hall for a protest and story time…
Rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has taken on several entrepreneurial ventures and his latest, a book titled Playground, takes a look at school bullying--but not from the victim's…
While on Wall Street many protesters decry economic inequality, and in Washington, D.C. debates continue over federal education policy, teachers across the country are occupying their classrooms, 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…
The two high school teachers knocked at Apartment 512 of a Crystal City high-rise and waited to see the inside of Alvaro Nunez Alvarez’s life. Up to that…
We recently asked readers: “If you could choose a topic to be the focus of a movie/documentary about education, what would it be and why?” Here are the…