- NYC Dept. Of Education Bans 'Evolution' And Other 'Offensive' Words From Tests
- Backtracking on Florida Exams Flunked by Many, Even an Educator NYT
- Texas Republicans express 'regret' for officially opposing critical thinking skills
- Dumbing down America one child at a time
- Edmonton teacher suspended for giving 0s--"Lynden Dorval, a physics teacher at Ross Sheppard High School, has been giving the mark for work that wasn't handed in or tests not taken even though it goes against the school's 'no-zero' policy."
- Can We Fix Computer Science Education in America?
- Obama proposes $1B for science, math teachers
- UK: Make maths compulsory for all A level students, say Lords
- Is Algebra Necessary?--Asks the political scientist. NYT
- Teachers find bonus pay not a matter of degree--"[B]ecause [Scott Johnson's] master’s degree [in astrophysics] wasn’t in math, the subject he taught this past year, under a new state law he didn't qualify for the $2,625 bonus pay teachers can receive for having that higher degree."
- The order putting Diana Tran, the honor student working to support her family, in jail for truancy has been vacated--Why are students going to jail for absurd reasons?
- University sues student who 'studied too fast'--"A private German economics and business university is suing one of its students for lost income after he finished his Bachelors and Masters degrees in about a quarter of the normal time."
- Senate Report: For-Profit Colleges Exploit Students
- People Are Awesome: Bullied School Bus Monitor Gets a Really Nice Vacation--And a retirement.
- Bus monitor Karen Klein opens up about kid bullies
- 4 Bus Monitor Bullies Suspended a Year From School
- 7-year-old's suicide shocks Detroit community
- Teen who committed suicide wrote bullying post herself, friend tells inquest
- Why are young Indians killing themselves?
- Time is now for grown-up talk on drinking age--"The drinking age should be 18, period."
- Why are American kids so spoiled?
- Zen Magnets: Public response to the CPSC--Concern-trolling Consumer Product Safety Commission wants the company to shut down.
- 5-Year-Old Seriously Injured After Swallowing Buckyballs
- Blast from the Past: Choking Warning Labels for Hot Dogs?
