What’s Wrong with Government Funding of the Arts

09-01-2011 • www.thefreemanonline.org

People who oppose Soviet-style collective farms, government subsidies to agriculture, or public ownership of grocery stores because they want the provision of food to be a private matter in the marketplace are generally not dismissed as uncivilized o

Arrested for Letting Your 10 year old Ride a Bike to School

08-31-2011 • .

Could you be arrested for allowing your 5'th grade child to ride her bike one mile to school? That certainly seems crazy as we try to encourage active life styles for our kids. That certainly seems crazy as we try to promote safe routes to school p

The best way to stay out of student loan debt and boost your resume

08-31-2011 • www.sovereignman.com

Despite the mind-numbing mantra we constantly hear from our political leaders and central bankers that inflation does not exist, there are certain parts of our lives where even a freeze-dried coffee bean can see that prices are clearly rising: At the

Ind. vouchers prompt thousands to change schools

08-29-2011 • AP

Weeks after Indiana began the nation’s broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic institutions that were only recently on the brink of closing

The New Rules of College Sex

08-28-2011 • .

How the federal government and a Malvern lawyer are rewriting the rules on campus hookups—and tagging young men as dangerous predators

Feds reject request to require seat belts on school buses

08-25-2011 • Washington Post

Yeager said that by the time children reach school age they are comfortable with the seat belt culture. “From their first ride home from the hospital, they have been secured by a restraining device,” he said. “The very first time kids ever experience

Journalism school teaches students pre-digital newspaper production techniques

08-22-2011 • boingboing.net

Students in the Florida Atlantic University J-school produced a newspaper using (mostly) pre-computer technologies, composing on manual typewriters, pasting up with X-Acto blades and rubber cement, shooting on film and developing in a darkroom

South Dakota schools cut costs with 4-day week

08-22-2011 • AP

When the nearly 300 students of the Irene-Wakonda School District returned to school this week, they found a lot of old friends, teachers and familiar routines awaiting them. But one thing was missing: Friday classes.

In Texas schools, a criminal response to misbehavior

08-21-2011 • Washington Post

In a small courtroom north of Houston, a fourth-grader walked up to the bench with his mother. Too short to see the judge, he stood on a stool. He was dressed in a polo shirt and dark slacks. “Guilty,” the boy’s mother heard him say.

FBI Uncovers Largest Credit Card Scam In History After Raiding Visa Headquarters

08-20-2011 • www.theonion.com

Nation's students to give American education system yet another chance

School District Offering Drug Testing Kits To Parents

08-19-2011 • CBS News (video)

The test kids will be available to parents of middle school students in the Hempfield School District. “We would rather be proactive,” Andy Leopold, superintendent, said. “We have 6,300 students in this district and if we can affect even one family o

School District Offering Drug Testing Kits To Parents

08-19-2011 • pittsburgh.cbslocal.com

A local school district is offering take home drug tests to parents.

Boy tells teacher he spent vacation making explosives

08-11-2011 • Reuters

A 13-year-old Tennessee boy asked what he did on his summer vacation surprised his teacher by saying he made explosive devices. Police were summoned and found he was telling the truth. He was charged with felony manufacturing of explosive devices,

Jeb Bush Throws His Weight Around: Opposes States Rights In Education

08-10-2011 • blogs.edweek.org/edweek

Bush, who wrote a letter to the subcommittee declaring support for the (Federal) common standards and urging them to table the legislative package.

Obama Administration Exempting Schools From Federal Law’s Testing Mandate

08-09-2011 • AP

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

Philadelphia English teacher explains why she helped students cheat

07-31-2011 • The Lookout

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

Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’

07-29-2011 • CATO Institute

.... 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.”

Feds Giving Engineers and Scientists $50K to Learn to Start Companies

07-28-2011 • Ryan Singel via WIRED.com

The National Science Foundation is looking to change that with a $10 million grant for an start-up education program intended to teach the nation’s top scientists and engineers how to become entrepreneurs.

Memphis City School Board Witholds Education Indefinitely - Demands $55 Million Ransom

07-21-2011 • wreg.com Via RTR.ORG post

"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."

60 percent of Texans suspended before high school graduation

07-20-2011 • The Lookout

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

Supreme Court ruling, rising police presence in schools spur Miranda questions

07-17-2011 • Washington Post

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 —

Indiana Teen Faces Possible Jail Time For Sex Doll Prank Gone Wrong

07-07-2011 • Huffington Post

When 18-year-old Tyell Morton put a blow-up sex doll in a bathroom stall on the last day of school, he didn't expect school officials to call a bomb squad or that he'd be facing up to eight years in prison and a possible felony record. The senior

12 And 13-Year-Old Kids Turn In Dad For Marijuana Possession Say Police

07-07-2011 • Huffington Post

A Utah man was arrested after his 2 children called police to report that he had marijuana in the house. The man was charged with 2 third-degree felony charges of child endangerment and a misdemeanor possession controlled substance.

America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta

07-06-2011 • Christian Science Monitor

Award-winning gains by Atlanta students were based on widespread cheating by 178 named teachers and principals, said Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Tuesday. His office released a report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that names 178 teachers an

Maryland Adds Environmental Literacy in High Schools

06-28-2011 • FOX News

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