School Voucher Program Students Commit Fewer Crimes, Study Suggests
Researchers at the University of Arkansas performed an evaluation of a Milwaukee school voucher program, finding that students who make use of the program in order to enroll in private high schools are less likely More...
UK Health Experts Call for Ban on Tackling in School Rugby
More than 70 leading health experts, doctors, and prominent academics have started a petition to ban tackling in school rugby games in the United Kingdom. The open letter sent to politicians, cabinet members, More...
UK National Offer Day Disappoints as Many Miss First Choice School
Close to 100,000 children in the United Kingdom have potentially missed out on their first choice of secondary schools as the result of an escalating places crisis taking place across the country. Some areas saw More...
Bill Would Usher In Elected School Board for Chicago
In a rare bipartisan move, the Illinois House passed a bill this Thursday to do away with a Chicago Board of Education that is appointed by the city’s mayor and change it to a board that is elected. Lauren More...
NACSA Report Analyzes Charter School Authorizers, Accountability
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) has released its annual report on an interactive website that offers the largest amount of data concerning charter school authorizers in its history. The More...
Survey: 1 in 5 British Women Sexually Assaulted While in School
A recently-released survey has found one in five British women reporting having been groped, flashed, sexually assaulted, or raped as schoolgirls, although most did not report the incidents. The poll by children’s More...
UKIP row school BANNED pupils from voting for party in mock election saying it is ‘RACIST’
A SCHOOL which found itself at the centre of a political storm after teachers called in the police to interrogate a boy who accessed the UKIP website previously BANNED pupils from voting for the party in a mock More...
‘Fight Club’ at California High School Sparks Investigation
School officials in California are investigating a “fight club” that allegedly took place on a high school campus after receiving several complaints from parents after videos of students punching each More...
Kadenze, Art School Offer Comics and Graphic Novel MOOC
A college based in California is offering a free online course for artists on the creation of comic books and graphic novels. The California College of the Arts in San Francisco already offers an MFA in comics, More...
Wisconsin Online Career, Technical School Debuts
Online high school Destinations Career Academy of Wisconsin, WIDCA, with a focus on career and technical education, was recently launched through a partnership between Fox Valley Technical College, the International More...