Utah would become the first state to ban public schools from teaching contraception as a way of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases under a bill given final…
The Republican-controlled Arizona House of Representatives has voted to repeal the state's gun-free school zone laws, setting up a potential battle that only Gov. Jan Brewer (R) may…
The Justice Department has warned Apple and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them, accusing them of colluding to raise the prices of…
What would a high school classroom look like if the students were all like kindergartners, eagerly learning everything they could about the world? What makes this idea seem…
Pink slime--that ammonia-treated meat in a bright Pepto-bismol shade--may have been rejected by fast food joints like McDonald's, Taco Bell and Burger King, but is being brought in…
Last year, we reported that a police department in North Carolina was requiring applicants to provide their social network passwords to interviewers to be considered for a job,…
Some school districts in California are working to establish an "early warning system" to identify middle grade students who are at risk of dropping out, and then to…
As educators push for more and better access to open educational resources (OER), or content that is available free of charge online, new efforts are helping classroom teachers…
A leading publisher of children's books is taking a big step into the electronic market: Scholastic Inc. is developing an app called Storia, which includes around 1,300 eBooks…
More than 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or African-American, according to a report to be released March…
Verizon Wireless has announced a version of its wireless broadband service that's designed for use in rural and remote homes that can't get DSL or cable, the Associated…
Minnesota's largest school district on March 5 voted to settle a pair of lawsuits over a policy that was criticized for failing to protect gay students from bullying,…
Plato Learning is buying Archipelago Learning Inc., which sells subscriptions to the online test-prep service Study Island, for about $291 million in cash as the education software maker…
As two state consortia work to create next-generation common assessments to help make testing more meaningful for students and teachers, a new tool will launch later this month…
In opposition of a bill the state Senate is considering--which would "phase out" systems like tenure and make it easier for teachers to be dismissed--the Virginia Education Association…
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa lobbied Gov. Jerry Brown this week to make it easier for the Los Angeles Unified School District to fire teachers, the Huffington Post…
As an 11-year-old, future actor Alan Alda asked his teacher a burning question: "What is a flame?" He found the response he received — "It's oxidation" — unsatisfying,…
Countering the recent trend among educational reformers who insist that America needs to concentrate on practical subjects or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), actor John Lithgow recently…
Traditional voting systems are typically expensive and require a great deal of manpower to implement. Because of this, technology firms have begun proposing electronic alternatives (e-voting) that could…
Colorado lawmakers are talking about several measures to increase oversight for the booming online school industry, and their efforts could inspire similar legislation elsewhere as well.
Essance McDougald, a student at Lithonia High School in Lithonia, Ga., claims she was suspended for not reporting to school officials that she was being bullied, CBS Atlanta…
A toxic, cancer-causing gas is threatening the health of students in thousands of classrooms across the country, but many districts aren't doing anything about it, the Huffington Post…
Experts are poor predictors of the future, says Larry Cuban, a former high school social studies teacher, district superintendent, and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, for…
A social marketing platform is launching a new feature for alcohol brands on Twitter to help them make sure their tweets are reaching an age-appropriate audience, Mashable reports.
Fresh out of the education program at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver, it's been a tough school year looking for work for Peter Hartwick, the Associated Press reports.
After a recent New York Times article implied that online learning giant K12 Inc. focuses more on its bottom line than student performance, the company now faces a…
As students and teachers returned to school on Monday after the publication of performance ratings for 18,000 teachers, many parents said they were giving the reports serious thought.…
Horace Mann called public education the “great equalizer.” Quite simply, he believed that without a strong system of public schools in this country, the elite would get an…
School officials in a Massachusetts town are apologizing for sending home a lunch menu that listed KKK Chicken Tenders as an option, the Huffington post reports.
Microsoft is scrambling to preserve what's left of its kingdom, and it’s pinning its hopes on a new version of Windows that could spawn a new breed of…
There is a good chance young people growing up in today's always-wired world will eventually become bright, nimble decision makers-if they don't wind up intellectual lightweights unable to…
Even as policymakers struggle to reform remedial-education requirements blamed for derailing the aspirations of countless community-college students, two new studies suggest that many of those students would do…
