EducationNewsToday
Time to regulate what charters are teaching
When writing about charter schools, journalists regularly include some variation of this sentence: "Charters are independently operated public schools that are exempt from some rules that govern traditional schools." One of those rules that some charters ignore is the U.S. Constitution.
Nintendo aims to get consoles in schools
Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping his world of magic mushrooms and ravenous dinosaurs for the staid confines of the classroom? ...
UC Davis study shows dogs can help youngsters read
Westley Kear, 11, hated reading aloud. Then he found the perfect audience....
Science teachers meet to urge more funding
More than 10,000 teachers are in Philadelphia to try to persuade the nation that science is important. The city is the site through tomorrow of the 58th annual National Conference on Science Education, with ...
Phila. principals to work 12 months under new pact
The Philadelphia School District is changing its unusual practice of requiring principals to work only 10 months a year. Principals in more than 100 of the district's highest-needs schools and all new hires will be required to work 12 months...
Kansas City Schools are out -- forever
The Kansas City, Mo., district is closing nearly half its campuses after 10 years of dwindling student population. It's what happens when a district loses support of the public it is meant to serve. ...
DPS parents feeling betrayed
Less than five months after Detroit voters passed a $500.5 million school construction plan, nearly half of the 18 schools that were to be rebuilt or renovated are now headed for closure or plans for them have been altered ...
Solving Algebra on Smartphones
Research shows that a project to use the devices as teaching tools in some N.C. districts has had a measurable impact on student achievement in math. ...
Teacher pension shift gets an OK
A state Senate panel decided Friday that Maryland should balance future budgets by shifting some teacher pension costs to local governments, a long-discussed change that caught education activists and county officials by surprise ...
Treat for kids after finishing tests
Teachers at McVey Elementary School in Newark hosted a sing-along for students Friday to celebrate completing Delaware Student Testing Program requirements. ...
Rhee hiring Obama ally for communications job
Anita Dunn in negotiations to help Rhee manage her p.r. strategy...
Worst US school disaster passes 73rd anniversary
So many with a direct connection to the London, Texas, school explosion of 73 years ago are gone now, no longer here to mourn the 282 students and 14 adults lost in oil-rich east Texas that March....
At Stuyvesant, Interpreting Parent-Teacher Night
Stuyvesant High School’s Asian population has soared to 70 percent, inspiring a volunteer interpreter program to help parents who don’t speak English...
Texting student ordered to pay $22 million in fatal crash
The victim, Megan Small of Houston, was a senior at Baylor University and was driving to Waco when the November 2007 accident happened near Calvert....
Searchable database NYC govt. on line
3.19.10 - All checks written by the NYC govt. on line in a searchable database - including those for the NYC Dept. of Education, and will also be taking public suggestions for things to audit....
Secretaries third union to concede
EAST PROVIDENCE — Their salaries average $33,000 a year, but the city’s school secretaries have agreed to a new contract that forfeits half of their paid sick leave and freezes their wages for two years....
Ackerman: Magnet proposal now dead, was a surprise
Philadelphia Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman said yesterday that she did not support changing magnet-school admissions requirements to increase diversity, and declared the proposal dead. ...
Text message dispute triggered brutal Fla. beating
AP - The brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl at a Florida middle school was triggered by a text message dispute between the victim and the teenage boy accused punching and stomping on her with steel-toed boots, authorities said Thursday....
What Do You Know About Teen Depression?
Student Opinion | Tell us what you know or have learned about teenage depression, whether from experts or from personal experience. What questions do you still have?...
Gibbons’ education task force to meet behind closed doors
Gov. Jim Gibbons declared this week that Nevada’s future education policy will emerge from a blue ribbon task force he created by executive order. But its first meeting today will be held behind closed doors. ...