Early number sense plays role in later math skills
We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and ...
Parents, union to fight Chicago school closings
Chicago Public Schools officials ended months of speculation when they released the list of 54 schools the city plans to close, but the pushback ...
Chicago to close 54 schools to address $1B deficit
Tens of thousands of Chicago students, parents and teachers learned Thursday their schools were on a long-feared list of 54 the city plans to close ...
Barbs of racism, anti-Semitism in NY school clash
School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in ...
AP source: Butler, Creighton, Xavier to Big East
The two conferences growing out of the old Big East are moving forward. Butler, Creighton and Xavier will join the so-called Catholic 7 schools in the ...
Monitoring your kids on Facebook? That's so 2009.
After Friendster came MySpace. By the time Facebook dominated social media, parents had joined the party, too. But the online scene has changed - ...
After decade of criticism, student grouping rises
Teachers say they are grouping students of similar abilities with each other inside classrooms and schools are clustering pupils with like interests ...
Report makes chilling forecast on Northwest quake
More than 10,000 people could die when — not if — a monster earthquake and tsunami occur just off the Pacific Northwest coast, researchers told Oregon ...
Maine school laptop contract to be open to others
The only state to provide laptops to public school students statewide said Thursday the contract it's negotiating for new devices can be used by other ...
Ohio woman, 106, finally gets high school diploma
A 106-year-old central Ohio woman who completed classes but didn't graduate in a dispute over a book has received her high school diploma. The News ...
Report: More youth use smartphones as route to Web
Keep computers in a common area so you can monitor what your kids are doing. It's a longstanding directive for online safety — but one that's quickly ...
Titles don't much matter for high school math
Advanced or intermediate algebra? Honors or basic geometry? When it comes to high school math, the labels may not really matter — or necessarily ...
Schools shift from textbooks to tablets
Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their ...
NY high school raises $489K with marathon dance
The 710 students from South Glens Falls High School danced for more than a day: Conga lines, "Gangnam Style," giddy-ups, hand jives and the Harlem ...
Budget cuts to hit military school districts first
Public schools everywhere will be affected by the government's automatic budget cuts, but few may feel the funding pinch faster than those on and ...
'Switched at Birth' goes silent to make a point
"Until hearing people walk a day in our shoes, they will never understand," says a guidance counselor at a high school for deaf students in "Switched ...
Michelle Obama highlights obesity progress in MS
Michelle Obama on Wednesday congratulated this Southern state for a more than 13 percent drop in its child obesity rates, saying its example should ...
Storm brings deaths, travel problems, power losses
A Midwest snowstorm packing heavy snow and strong winds left six people dead in Kansas, hundreds of vehicles crashed or stranded in Wisconsin, and ...
Ohio court spars with lawyers in school Bible case
State Supreme Court justices sparred with lawyers on Wednesday in a heated hour of arguments over the extent to which a now-fired public school ...
Christie budget plan pushes greater school choice
With relatively small expenditures, Gov. Chris Christie is using his proposed state budget to push harder for more school choice for students in ...
Counties cope as indigent burials increase
Kate Hopkins didn't know the man in the casket, never met him or his family. Yet, Hopkins stood watch over 48-year-old Francisco Carmona's funeral on ...
German home-school parents appeal asylum ruling
A couple who fled Germany with their five children over fears they would lose custody for not sending them to school has asked a federal appeals court ...
Education considering district-by-district waivers
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is talking with school districts about how to free them from unworkable parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law, ...
California school district sued over yoga program
An attorney representing a family bent out of shape over a public school yoga program in the beach city of Encinitas filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop ...
Opponents denounce call for anti-gay prom in Ind.
A quiet Indiana community known for its parks and corn festival has become the latest setting for the debate over gay rights and bullying after ...
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