With states and cities going through hard times, teachers, their pensions and their unions have become big targets for budget cutters, says the New York Times.
Breakfast eaters around the country are photographing their bowls of cereal, plates of eggs and assorted pastries, not out of a personal obsession with food but for a…
National newspapers, television, and radio stations aren't the only places where the Wisconsin labor conflict is playing out; now, both sides have taken to YouTube with ad campaigns…
The jabs Erin Parker has heard about her job have stunned her. Oh you pathetic teachers, read the online comments and placards of counterdemonstrators. You are glorified baby…
While many readers argue that schools could learn a lot from business, a majority agree with the premise that businesses and schools have fundamentally different missions and therefore…
A crowd estimated at more than 70,000 people on Saturday waved American flags, sang the national anthem, and called for the defeat of a Wisconsin plan to curb…
Responding to criticism that tenure gives even poor teachers a job for life, Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, announced a plan Thursday to…
Kelley Williams-Bolar, alarmed after her home was broken into, yanked her two daughters out of their urban Akron, Ohio, schools and enrolled them in her father's suburban school…
State education officials have ordered the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools to immediately implement a plan that balances the district's books by closing half its schools,…
A university in Tucson is seeking to turn the shooting rampage that severely wounded U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords last month into a teachable moment with a new institute…
Months after the University of Alabama dedicated a plaza and clock tower to its earliest black students, the school has been swamped with unwelcome attention over the past…
There was trepidation on both sides when a squadron of biologists set out to celebrate Darwin Day in rural America during the weekend, the New York Times reports.
The chameleon-like quality of some people's racial and ethnic identification might seem trivial except that statistics on ethnicity and race are used for many important purposes, reports the…
The George W. Bush Institute is planning to introduce its second big education initiative Wednesday, a program that seeks to improve graduation rates by focusing on middle schools,…
A school janitor was arrested Wednesday in the killing of a Northern California elementary school principal who was hailed as a role model for other educators.
The White House is offering public high schools across the country a chance to win a commencement address by President Barack Obama, reports the Associated Press.
Many school lunch items could be gone now that the federal government has issued new restrictions on fat and sodium offered during the school day, reports Time.
According to Reuters, twenty-four people, including two members of the New York City Council, were arrested on Monday at a protest over plans to close two dozen city…