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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) shouldn’t hold his breath waiting for an apology from the teen that he tattled on for writing a disparaging tweet. Emma Sullivan, 18, said she isn’t giving in to Brownback’s demand for an apology because it wouldn’t be s
Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old.
We don't know if this is a good development or a bad one, but "HistoryTeachers" has started producing videos that educate by using rock and roll songs.
Faced with stinging budget cuts, a county school board in the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado is selling advertising space on report cards to help make ends meet.
"She was taught to do what the teacher said do," said Norris. "And the teacher wants her to rub her feet? She told me 'grandma, you didn't tell me if I touch someone else, to tell you.' That broke my heart."
Lexington County School District Three is investigating after a first-grader complained about having to rub her teacher's feet.
A lot of big colleges have their own police departments. They are staffed with sworn officers who have the ability to investigate everything from burglaries to murder. Depending on the type of transgression and how it gets reported, some alleged crim
In the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, The Citadel military college in South Carolina, revealed it had investigated accusations against a camp counselor but took no action. The man has since been jailed on molesting 5 boys.
A Northern California school police officers union has angered a town after it sold T-shirts with a picture of a child behind bars and the slogan: "U raise 'em, we cage 'em."
Pressed for dollars, a growing number of public schools are doing what many educators once considered unimaginable: eliminating an entire school day each week. At least 292 school districts nationwide have a four-day week, according to a Washingto
Recommended curriculum for a mandatory sex education course to be implemented in New York middle and high schools next year directs students to a website that details “safe sex” practices regarding bestiality, coprophagia, and other extreme sexual fe
IMAGINE you have a 10- or 11-year-old child, just entering a public middle school. How would you feel if, as part of a class ostensibly about the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, he and his classmates were given “risk cards” that graphically na
Rewriting the No Child Left Behind education law gained traction and the Senate Democrat whose committee passed the bill said progress became possible because lawmakers were irritated by Obama offering states waivers to the law
He’s a Southern judge, with the boom and flair of a preacher, who has risen to national prominence arguing that too many students get arrested or kicked out of school for minor trouble. “Zero tolerance is zero intelligence,” he likes to say.
Marketing student Marc Bechtol learned from Catawba Valley Community College that what you say can come back to haunt you. The school suspended Bechtol on Oct. 4 for two semesters and banned him from campus in response to a comment he made about t
The chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Stout (UWS) has declared that he will not defend faculty First Amendment rights from censorship. UWS censored theater professor James Miller's poster featuring a line from actor Nathan Fillion's character in
The University of New Hampshire did an abrupt about face Monday night and decided to continue selling energy drinks, reversing a ban that had been announced only hours earlier.
I recently received my 1st grade students back-to-school paperwork. Going through the packet I found a letter serving notification that my son is now required by law to participate in monthly anti-terrorism drills. In fact, after doing mor
The plan to offer waivers to all 50 states, as long as they meet other school reform requirements, comes at the request of President Barack Obama, Duncan said. More details on the waivers will come in September, he said. The goal of the No Child L
The teacher helped her students cheat because she worried their self-esteem would be crushed by taking tests they were in no way academically prepared for. If a student asked a question she would help him find the answer, or point to the answer
.... teachers who’ve seen Khan Academy presentations and loved the idea but wondered whether they could modify it “to stop students from becoming this advanced.”
"The board voted to keep schools closed until the City of Memphis gives them a payment of fifty five million dollars. Schools had been scheduled to open on August 8th."
A new study by the by the Council of State Governments finds that 60 percent of Texan students were suspended, expelled or faced in-school suspensions by the time they graduated high school. The researchers followed every Texas seventh grader into
A few weeks before summer break, an eighth-grader in Fairfax County was pulled from his civics class and led into an office. An assistant principal told him that classmates had reported hearing him say he’d smoked marijuana with five other boys —
Maryland is the first state in the country to impose a new requirement to graduate from high school -- something called environmental literacy. But what is that? That is the question State Senator J. B. Jennings is asking. "What kind of educati
While The Lookout, too, has noticed a rash of over-hyped headlines about the value of college (ahem, New York magazine), we think these critics are too quick to brush off scholars' concerns about the higher education industry. The often overheated t
...probably also believe that the recent Republican beauty pageant was a real debate. They can thank their public school for what they don’t know.
The US Ministry of Truth - Bill Clinton wants one, which means even he knows the jig is up. Article by Butler Shaffer. / Battle Stations! - Time for more imperial spending and death expeditions. Article by Eric Margolis.
Why is the Education Department purchasing 27 Remington Brand Model 870 police 12-gauge shotguns? "The Office of Inspector General is the law enforcement arm of the U.S. Department of Education..."
A Dept of Education SWAT team executed a no-knock search warrant on a Stockton home at 6:00 am Tuesday for defaulted student loans. [direct link to the source of the blog post Jack linked earlier. Just, wow.]
