No Child Left Behind Waivers Worry Some Advocates
The Obama administration wants states to focus more of their attention on the lowest performing schools, where large numbers of …
Obama Lets States Opt Out Of ‘No Child Left Behind’
Decrying the state of American education, President Obama announced Friday that his administration is allowing states to be exempt from …
Canceling The School Play Won’t Avoid ‘Kismet’
There will be no Kismet in Johnstown, Pa. This week the Richland School District canceled February’s high school student production …
Neurosurgeon Gives Thanks To His Science Teacher
As a middle-school student in the ’80s, Lee Buono stayed after school one day to remove the brain and spinal …
Life Lessons Learned: The National Teachers Initiative
You may have already heard of StoryCorps, the American oral history project on NPR. Two people sit down in a …
New York High School Helps Immigrant ‘Kids’ Adapt
Starting at a new high school can be tough for any kid, but for new immigrants and refugees it can …
Do Civil Rights Laws Apply To Parochial Schools?
The United States Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a major case testing the rights of teachers in religious schools. …
Supreme Court Considers Disabilities Act Dispute
It could be “a mess,” said Justice Stephen Breyer. That sentiment seemed to sum up the intellectual somersaults performed by …
Derrick Bell, Influential Legal Scholar, Dies At 80
Derrick Bell, the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School, died of carcinoid cancer in New York City on …
Undercover Student Tests A For-Profit College
Lately, for-profit colleges like DeVry, Kaplan and the University of Phoenix have been subject to scrutiny and new regulations for …
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