California lawmakers hope to restrict the number of football practices involving tackling, due to concerns over potential concussion-related brain damage among high school athletes.
Students who suffer head injuries would need approval...
Joaquin Del Core said a bully targeted him at school all year, beating him up weekly and threatening to kill him. The fourth-grader's parents have filed a lawsuit on their son's behalf seeking $50,000 from the bully, the bully's parents and the...
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced his plans to revoke the Common Core standards, sparking a political scramble and procedural tug-of-war in the state.
The Times-Picayune reported that Education Superintendent White and board President Chas...
The practice of secluding or restraining children when they get agitated has long been a controversial practice in public schools. Now, new data--analyzed by ProPublica and reported on by NPR--show that it's more common than we thought, happening at...
The evolving role of the teacher as facilitator, and hands-on learning experiences that give students agency over their own education are two major trends already taking root in many schools and classrooms, according to a Mind/Shift blog post about...
A study by the National Council on Teacher Quality argued that "teaching colleges are too lenient in their admissions criteria and have failed to prepare their students to teach subjects like reading, math and science," reported nprEd.
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Although the Department of Labor predicts the nation will add 1.2 million new computer-science-related jobs by 2022, we're graduating proportionately fewer computer science majors than we did in the 1980s, and the number of students signing up for...
Federalist.com contributor and former homeschooled student Georgi Boorman said many dismiss homeschooling and unquestioningly endorse public education, caring less about actual learning than they do about the "crucial socialization" they believe...
The recent, violent attacks in Iraq (most recently in the cities of Mosul and Tikrit) have been led by Sunni militants belonging to the “jihadist” group “Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant” (known as ISIS or ISIL). Although the U.S. said five...
Nearly half of Americans who begin college today will not actually finish, largely due to skyrocketing costs and work/life balance.
Starbucks is doing something to change that for its employees--the company will be working with Arizona...