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Below Dov Rosenberg lists what he considers the 10 most inaccurate and damaging statements that some...

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled June 20 that the University of Minnesota did not violate a mortuar...

Viewing child pornography online isn't a crime, the New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday in the c...

Controversy ensued after the Beis Rivkah all-girl high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., pulled from class e...

A New York school district acted properly in suspending a 10-year-old boy who during a class exercis...

Just when you think the climate of disrespect for teachers can’t get any worse, it does. The Chi...

Harry Potter e-books are coming to schools and libraries, at a date to be determined. OverDrive I...

The New York City Department of Education released today a list of individual ratings of thousands o...

The Bully Project, set for release in March, examines five students and families affected by bullyin...

They are among the 5,000 worst schools in America, where the percentage of kids who can read or do m...

New York City Schools recently agreed to begin using third-party observers, known as independent val...

According to the Associated Press, in a 5-2 vote this Friday, the Illinois Supreme Court has made a ...

A perceived conflict between science and religion has led Americans to rank nearly last among indust...

In a story in Sunday's Arizona Republic, Alia Beard Rau described efforts by lawmakers to pass a law...

Schools across the country are pioneering big changes in the classroom -- to accomodate the 17 perce...

House Republicans on Feb. 16 pushed ahead with a plan to update the federal No Child Left Behind edu...

PHOENIX (AP) — A teacher's role may be to expand a student's vocabulary, but one Arizona lawmaker wa...

The new budget that President Barack Obama is sending to Congress aims to achieve $4 trillion in def...

You've heard about free school lunches and breakfasts, but how about school suppers? In California, ...

By almost any measure, Norma Butler Bossard Elementary School is a top performing school in Miami: I...

According to The Daily Ticker, the California State Teachers Retirement System has sent a letter to ...

President Barack Obama had the privilege to meet with several young scientists from Detroit Public S...

The entire staff of a Los Angeles elementary school — teachers, administrators, janitors included — ...

When Christopher Chamness entered the third grade last year, he began to get stomach aches before sc...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. It is the first in a series in a collaborat...

Is there a link between violent video games and bullying? According to one Oklahoma State Representa...

Lowndes County Schools students in Georgia can relax a little -- 3rd through 8th graders can no long...

An Illinois high school is cracking down on campus drug sales by confiscating the cell phones of stu...

Yanelli Hernandez, 22, tried to commit suicide while in immigration detention. Twice. Twice, she ...

Thirty-nine states, 15,000 teachers, and 1.7 million students participated in the first-ever Digital...

Singer Nancy Sinatra may have had boots made for walking, but she never attended Pottstown Middle Sc...

A $3 million Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant will help the Massachusetts Institute of Techno...

A former Los Angeles elementary school teacher was arrested after he allegedly gagged and made bon...

major impediment to education reform is the silos that exist in the pre-kindergarten through college...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a set of cases for the digital age—whether schools ma...

Clare Davidson-Sherman, the adopted daughter of Karen Davidson-Fisher, has "several mommies" -- her ...

During my 20 years as a local reporter and columnist, I have noticed our schools deal with all of th...

The Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) kicks off its 32nd Annual Convention and Exposition ...

Here are 10 things that teachers, parents and students can do to help ensure a SUPER GEEKY SAFE....e...

In a move similar to ones chided by federal courts in Alabama and Arizona, one Kansas City area lawm...

Like many of my colleagues who cover education, technology, or the places they intersect, I received...

George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, which requires students at all U.S. public...

A decade ago, Hopeville Elementary School was one of the worst performing schools in Waterbury, Conn...

For business school students, 2011 was an eventful year, even if most major events represented the c...

10. Educators discover paying for reasonable security measures at school athletic events is more im...

We looked at more than 21,000 public high schools in 48 states and the District of Columbia. The fol...

The New York City Department of Education made public on Sunday a list that estimates the number of ...

A Georgiana teacher was arrested Tuesday morning after getting into a traffic accident on the way to...

The Atlanta Public School board voted Monday night to put its investigations on hold into employee's...

Seattle Public Schools spent up to $1.8 million on contract work that was never done or didn't benef...