Washington School District to Face Jury Trial Over Rape Suit
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that a 14-year-old who was raped by a high school student, who also was a registered sex offender, can sue the school district for negligence and breach of duty. The court decided in a 5-4 ruling that the Bethel School District did not protect the young student from the More...
Maryland Schools to Start After Labor Day in 2017
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Starting next year, Maryland students will enjoy three extra days of holidays at the end of the summer to allow families to spend more quality time together before facing the More...
NLRB Treats Charter Schools as Private Corporations
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A decision by the National Labor Relations Board in two separate cases last week stated that charter schools are not public schools, but are, in fact, private corporations. While More...
Trump Touts Patriotism, Pledge of Allegiance in Schools
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has promised to require schoolchildren across America to be taught more respect for patriotic values if he is elected president More...
Nation Split on Purpose of Education, Poll Reveals
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) A recent national poll has found close to half of adults in the United States believe that public education should be focused on academics, while others suggest the main goal More...
School Readiness Gaps Narrowing, Report Says, But Slowly
(Photo: Public Domain, Creative Commons) Income and racial/ethnic gaps to school readiness have declined among kindergarten students over the last 12 years, a new paper on school readiness trends has found. However, More...
Illinois Teacher Pension Fund Projections Drop to 7%
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) The Illinois Teachers’ Retirement System, TRS, has voted to lower the fund’s future investment return assumption, causing it to drop from 7.5% to 7%. The move will More...
Schools Worldwide Taking Different Approaches to Pokemon Go
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Schools are attempting to find ways to keep the wildly popular mobile app Pokemon Go out of their classrooms. In the new technological age it was already difficult to keep students More...
UK Teen Girls Increasingly Unhappy, Poorer Body Image
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) New data shows that girls in Britain became unhappier between 2008 and 2013, while the happiness of boys remained stable. Out of 10 to 15-year-old girls in England, Wales, and More...
Wells Fargo, Amazon Nix Student Loan Partnership After 1 Month
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Slightly more than a month after the partnership began, Wells Fargo has stopped offering discounted interest rates on private student loans to Amazon.com customers. Neither of More...