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Blended Learning

Online schools face backlash as states question results

October 3, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Virtual public schools, which allow students to take all their classes online, have exploded in popularity across the United States, offering what supporters view as innovative and affordable…

Five-year-olds put to the test as kindergarten exams gain steam

September 25, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner - and that staple of…

Barnes & Noble to launch video service for Nook

September 25, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Barnes & Noble Inc said on Tuesday it was launching a video streaming and download service this autumn for its Nook eBooks and device business, Reuters reports.

District Management

Chicago teachers fear wave of school closings after strike

September 17, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Striking Chicago teachers fear that once they approve a new contract with the school district and end their strike, Mayor Rahm Emanuel will go ahead with dozens of…

Australian scientists develop genetic test to predict autism

November 5, 2013September 14, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Australian scientists have developed a genetic test to predict autism spectrum disorder in children, which could provide a long-sought way for early detection and intervention, according to a…

District Management

Parents mull private, charter schools amid teachers strike

September 14, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

With a Chicago Public School teachers strike in its fourth day on Thursday, some parents are looking into possible alternatives including charter or private schools, Reuters reports.

District Management

Florida probes online school company over teachers

September 12, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

The largest operator of online schools in the United States is being investigated by the Florida Department of Education over allegations the company may employ teachers who are…

District Management

Arizona reaches deal over education of English language learners

September 4, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Arizona has agreed to offer targeted reading and writing instruction to tens of thousands of public school students who were wrongly denied services under an English Language Learner…

District Management

Chicago teachers vote to strike on September 10 if no deal

August 31, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

The Chicago Teachers Union voted on Thursday to allow its first strike in 25 years starting on September 10 in the nation's third-largest school district if negotiators cannot…

District Management

Has Teach for America betrayed its mission?

August 17, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

When Wendy Kopp, just out of Princeton, founded Teach for America in 1989, she dreamed of recruiting 500 elite college graduates to teach the nation's neediest children. "My…

Teaching & Learning

Lego owners, Ontario teachers invest $614 million in ISS

August 17, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Toymaker Lego's owners and a Canadian pension fund are to pay 3.72 billion Danish crowns ($614 million) for a 26 percent stake in Danish cleaning group ISS ,…

District Management

$500,000 for New Jersey school kids forced to eat on floor

August 15, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Seven students at a Camden, New Jersey, school forced to eat lunch on a gymnasium floor for two weeks as punishment won a $500,000 legal settlement, their attorney…

Teaching & Learning

Sending your kid back to school? It’s going to cost you

August 9, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Brooklyn's Juliette Posner remembers the exact moment she realized just how broke public schools really are, Reuters reports.

District Management

Teacher union boss bends to school reform winds

August 1, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

In the maelstrom of criticism surrounding America's unionized public teachers, the woman running the second-largest educator union says time has come to collaborate on public school reform rather…

District Management

Louisiana sets rules for landmark school voucher program

July 24, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

State money will continue to flow to scores of private and religious schools participating in Louisiana's new voucher program even if their students fail basic reading and math…

South Carolina lawmakers restore state funding for arts, teachers

July 19, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

South Carolina lawmakers voted in a special session on Wednesday to override dozens of budget vetoes by the state's governor that cut funding for teachers' pay raises, an…

District Management

Mayors back parents seizing control of schools

June 18, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Hundreds of mayors from across the United States this weekend called for new laws letting parents seize control of low-performing public schools and fire the teachers, oust the…

Parents protest surge in standardized testing

June 12, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

A backlash against high-stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive -…

One-third of U.S. teens report texting while driving: CDC

June 8, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

A new federal study shows dramatic improvement in the driving habits of U.S. high school students, but texting by teenagers behind the wheel is a concern, the Centers…

District Management

California primaries show Democratic divide on education

June 7, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Democratic candidates backed by teachers unions narrowly lost on Tuesday in two California state assembly primary races that highlighted a bitter split in the Democratic Party over education…

District Management

Louisiana’s bold bid to privatize schools

June 4, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Louisiana is embarking on the nation's boldest experiment in privatizing public education, with the state preparing to shift tens of millions in tax dollars out of the public…

District Management

China rises in science, but equation may have flaws

May 30, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Deliang Chen started his scientific career in China in the early 1980s, part of the first generation to follow the vicious anti-intellectual years of the Cultural Revolution, Reuters…

District Management

U.S. schools with single-sex classrooms may face ACLU lawsuit

May 23, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening legal action against as many as a dozen school districts from Maine to Mississippi unless they stop programs the group says…

Half of Florida high school students fail reading test

May 21, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Nearly half of Florida high school students failed the reading portion of the state's new toughened standardized test, education officials said on Friday, Reuters reports.

Opinion: Angry mom deserved taser shocks at son’s school

May 18, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Here's a classic case of she-had-it-coming: Michele Lee Eaton, 39, got shocked by Taser twice at her son's Guntown, Miss, middle school, says Reuters.

District Management

Young adults with autism lag in school, work

May 16, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Young adults with autism are less likely to go to college or hold down a job than their peers with other types of disabilities, a new U.S. study…

District Management

Activist targeting schools, backed by big bucks

May 16, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

During her tumultuous three years at the head of the Washington D.C. public schools, Michelle Rhee set off a lot of fireworks, Reuters reports.

Fewer women in top U.S. tech jobs since 2010: survey

May 14, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

The number of women in senior technology positions at U.S. companies is down for the second year in a row, according to a survey published on Monday, Reuters…

District Management

Parents of boy forcibly tattooed sue school district

May 4, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

The parents of a New Hampshire teenager who was assaulted and forcibly tattooed on the buttocks by four older students during school hours have filed suit against the…

District Management

School district fights subpoena of Penn State victim records

May 1, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

A Pennsylvania school district on Monday moved to quash a subpoena asking for psychological and other records of one of the 10 boys Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky…

District Management

California middle school teacher fired over porn film role

April 20, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

A Southern California middle school science teacher who once appeared in a porn film has been fired by her school district over concerns the issue could pose a…

District Management

Think carrots, not candy as school snack, group suggests

April 19, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Junk food may soon be hard to buy at American public schools as the U.S. government readies new rules requiring healthier foods to be sold beyond the cafeteria…

District Management

Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack

April 18, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country's north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed…

America’s struggle to make math fun

April 12, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Pity poor math. In the American drive to boost science and math education, it's science that has all the kid-friendly sizzle: Robots and roller coasters, foaming chemical reactions,…

Sex education stagnating in U.S. schools, CDC says

April 6, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

Public schools in the United States are making "little progress" in expanding instruction in how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, a new federal…

Is Samsung’s phablet the shape of things to come?

April 5, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

It's been likened to a piece of toast, a device for elephants and a throwback to the 1980s-style brick phone, Reuters reports.

Robo-readers: the new teachers’ helper in the U.S.

November 5, 2013March 30, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots, Reuters reports.

New high in U.S. autism rates inspires renewed debate

March 30, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

About one in 88 children in the United States has autism or a related disorder, the highest estimate to date and one that is sure to revive a…

District Management

Boy’s “wish” to blow up school warrants suspension, court says

March 23, 2012 by Staff and wire services reports

A New York school district acted properly in suspending a 10-year-old boy who during a class exercise wrote in crayon that he wanted to "blow up the school…

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