This story originally appeared on iWatchnews.org by the Center for Public Integrity As a national debate heats up over appropriate student discipline, new data...
Care for a fizzy soda pop with that lunch room meal? How about a thick slice of pizza to add to that...
I attended the recent annual conference of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) to give the closing plenary...
For decades, study after study have shown that children who attend pre-kindergarten programs are better prepared for the rest of their education,...
On a football-field-sized stretch of land beside the Walton County Jail in tiny Monroe, Ga., a tractor tiller turned weed-choked rows of...
Student advocates worry that a pending interest rate increase on federally-administered student loans will further burden borrowers, potentially adding thousands of dollars...
Graffiti is a common site in the neighborhood around the Access Art Gallery in Denver – not inside, hanging on the walls...
In the wake of a cheating scandal involving more tha 20 Long Island, N.Y. high school students, makers of the SAT and ACT...
Last August, more than 20 families were forced to gather at the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha for an exercise in mass...
It’s hard to imagine an elementary school where the challenges would be greater: 1,500 students in one building, almost all of them...
President Barack Obama unveiled his 2013 budget proposal today, which calls for $3.8 trillion in spending and projects a $901 billion deficit...
LOS ANGELES — Fifteen-year-old Juan Carlos Amezcua was just five minutes late for school, and already at the corner by Theodore Roosevelt High...
With state budget cuts forcing many school districts to skimp on any type of education that won’t appear on a standardized test,...
Ten states have received waivers from the 2014 targets set by the No Child Left Behind Act, in exchange for agreeing to...
President Barack Obama delivered his third State of the Union speech last night, an hour-long oratory that focused mostly on success in...
A New Mexico federal court judge recently received a complaint citing the following facts: a 13-year-old boy repeatedly belched in class. While...
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