Racist Graffiti Concerns Students, Staff at Eastern Michigan U
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) An announcement has come from the president of Eastern Michigan University concerning racial graffiti found on campus, only one day after students protested offensive graffiti found spray-painted outside of a building. The letters “KKK” had been found sprayed in large red, white and blue letters earlier More...
Michigan’s Snyder Receives Third Grade Reading Bill
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Michigan Governor Rick Snyder began his campaign to improve third-grade reading performance over a year ago. This week, legislators sent him a bill that would require educators More...
White House Conference Adresses Discipline, Sexual Assault
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) In an effort to bring a stronger focus to equality within the school system, the White House will be hosting a conference called Trauma-Informed Approaches in School: Supporting More...
UK Children of Immigrants Make Use of Higher Ed More Often
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Immigrant children in Britain tend to be more serious about higher education, according to a new report, in contrast to other countries in which immigrant children have fewer More...
E-Reading On The Rise as Campus Bookstores Wane
(Photo: Jisc, Creative Commons) New research from Pew has found that reading books on cell phones is rapidly increasing in popularity, growing from 5% of Americans reporting participation in the activity in 2011 More...
Childhood Obesity Driving Increase in High Blood Pressure
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Children, adolescents, and adults are experiencing a rise in cases of diabetes. But this is not the only health problem that children and adults share — high blood pressure More...
Navy Will Mandate Transgender Sensitivity Education
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) The US Navy has made an announcement that it will be requiring all naval personnel to undergo transgender sensitivity training to be completed by July 2017. At that time, More...
New Mexico Continues to Struggle with Value-Added Evaluations
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) New Mexico has completed its third year of using its controversial teacher evaluations, and the results found that more than 70% of the state’s over 21,000 educators received More...
Students Assert Speech Rights By Sitting for Pledge
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Leilani Thomas was refusing to follow the pack long before Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, declined to stand for the playing of the US More...
After Public, Teacher Input, New York to Revise Common Core Standards
(Photo: Eve Edelheit, Times) New York Education Department officials have made draft changes to improve Common Core academic standards with the pledge of better lessons that will also remain rigorous. The streamlining More...