Researchers found that the more credit card and college loan debt held by young adults aged 18 to 27, the higher their self-esteem and the more they felt like they were in control of their lives The effect was strongest among those in the lowest...
A 12-year-old Dallas student was bound to a chair with duct tape and beaten by classmates as a substitute teacher stood and ignored the attack.... The attackers wrapped tape around her son's mouth to keep him from shouting.
A school district wants to give its bus drivers the authority to search students for weapons or drugs. The proposal would allow the drivers to search a student and their belongings if there is an immediate threat of harm or danger to those on the bus
The long-awaited overhaul of the 9-year-old No Child Left Behind law has begun in the House with the first in a series of targeted bills, but a bipartisan, comprehensive reform of the nation's most important education law still appears far from the f
Students with at least four unexcused absences will be given a handheld device with a GPS signal to verify their location, which officials hope will cut down on truancies.
Anaheim School District Director of Safe Schools Rick Martens says particip
School principals-turned-Inspector Gadgets had their online spy-gear store shuttered after being exposed. The Education Dept. pulled the plug on its website portal to an I-Spy-type arsenal where principals browsed for hidden cameras to trick out thei
By James H. Hyde
There’s a great line in the movie Air Force One. The president, played by Harrison Ford, is talking to the vice president (Glenn Close) about giving in to terrorist demands. The president asks, “What happens when you give a mouse a
Some Students at Mansfield ISD schools could soon be learning Arabic as a required language. The school district wants students at select schools to take Arabic language and culture classes as part of a federally funded grant.
The aggressive $4 billion program begun by the Obama administration in 2009 to radically transform the country’s worst schools included, as its centerpiece, a plan to install new principals to overhaul most of the failing schools.
A 7-year-old child allegedly shot a Nerf-style toy gun in his Hammonton, N.J., school Jan. 18. No one was hurt, but the pint-size softshooter now faces misdemeanor criminal charges.
Hammonton Police began an investigation into the “suspicious acti
The Conservative Coalition government in the UK has called for liberty in education. But their idea of liberty is still extreme statism; having government monitors of free schools to make sure they do not have extreme ideas like creationism. The le
An Ohio mother's attempt to provide her daughters with a better education has landed her behind bars. Kelley Williams-Bolar was convicted of lying about her residency to get her daughters into a better school district.
45 percent of students show no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking or complex reasoning by their sophmore year, explaining much about the American electorate.
In 2008, graduating seniors had an average debt burden of $23,200, a 24% increase from $18,650 in 2004. At public universities, it was $20,200. For private nonprofit ones, $27,650, and at private for-profit universities, $33,050.
Texas high school softball coaches at a are being sued after allegedly confining a teenaged girl in a locked room, forcing her to confirm her sexual orientation, then outing her to her parents before ejecting her from the softball team.
This algebraic equation, brought to you by Coca-Cola? Absurd as it may sound, that will soon be reality for many students in Los Angeles county, as public school officials announced a plan to solicit corporate sponsorship to help grow their budgets a
The burly, bipolar man who held a Florida school board at gunpoint was frustrated and broke. He was a troubled ex-con with an interest in anarchy, and when his wife was fired from her teaching job and their benefits ran out, he went to the board meet
U.S. education officials are standing by their finding that Virginia Tech broke federal law when it waited two hours to notify the campus that a gunman was on the loose at the outset of a 2007 shooting rampage, and then sent out an e-mailed warning t
We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists...
A high school principal is under fire for refusing to let an ambulance drive onto a [recently remodeled] football field to help an injured player. The 14-year-old's mother is waiting for an apology after her son suffered a concussion during a game
A former cheerleader did not have the right to refuse to cheer for a man that she claims sexually assaulted her, an appeals court has ruled. The girl, identified only as H.S. in court documents, claimed that, when she was 16, she was sexually assault
A third-year Boston College Law School student facing dismal job prospects and a mountain of student loan debt has offered the prestigious Hub institution a unique deal: Keep the degree ... and give me back my tuition!
Radio frequency identification — the same technology used to monitor cattle — is tracking students in the Spring and Santa Fe school districts. Identification badges for some students in both school districts now include tracking devices that allow c
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