- Librarian Chastises 9 Year-Old Kid For Reading Too Much—All because she "thinks someone else should have a chance to win" the annual public library reading contest.
- Indiana University freshman Rachael Fiege dies after falling down stairs at party—Asked why no one called the police for hours: "We're just young, we're scared. It's hard because if we get in trouble like that, it could change the rest of our college experience, you'll be under watch." Jeeze, didn't even warrant a 911 call.
- School district hires company to follow kids' Facebook, Twitter—"The Glendale Unified School District in Southern California outsources keeping tabs on troublemakers as well as identifying kids in trouble. At least these are its justifications."
- Child banned from school trip for eating chocolate
- Doctors support raising the smoking age to 21—Shouldn't military service be raised to 21 as well?
- Elementary school student arrested in Kalihi—"An 8-year-old special education student was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening, according to police."
- Success Academy school chain comes under fire as parents fight 'zero tolerance' disciplinary policy
- Flipside: A Philadelphia School's Big Bet on Nonviolence—"In a desperately poor, dangerous part of town, Memphis Street Academy decided to ditch its metal detectors and focus on supporting students. Violence dropped by 90 percent."
- Arkansas Attorney General Won't Let School Arm Teachers
- Ark. schools defend plans to arm employees
- Oops: Senator Who Advocates Arming Teachers Accidentally Shoots Teacher With Rubber Bullet
- Online bullying ends in Italian girl's suicide
- Death of Hannah Smith fuels call for action on social media bullying—Ask.fm claims that 'Hannah sent hate notes to herself.'
- Zero Tolerance: Towson University Suspends Cheerleading Team For Hazing
- One in five children bullied online, says NSPCC survey
- Victims Of Bullying Are More Likely To Be Arrested As Adults
- Kids Involved in Bullying Grow Up To Be Poorer, Sicker Adults
- Swedish boarding school shut down after bullying claims—"Inspectors announce immediate and indefinite closure of elite Lundsberg school, likened by one pupil to Lord of the Flies."
- Flipside: Lower Dauphin teens' video against bullying is finalist in global competition
- Lifting the Veil on the Holistic Process at the University of California, Berkeley—"Who's a 2? Who's a 5? Ranking a pool of Berkeley hopefuls in a sea of ambiguities." NYT
- You're Not Stupid. You're Slow.—"Teachers use a variety of words to describe failure. Here's what they all mean."
- Liberia students all fail university admission exam
- GOP Donor's School Grade Changed—"Emails obtained by The Associated Press show Bennett and his staff scrambled last fall to ensure influential donor Christel DeHaan's school received an 'A,' despite poor test scores in algebra that initially earned it a 'C.'" So much fail that rightfully results in a resignation.
- College Student Gets Year in Prison for Wire Fraud in Tampering With Student Election—Starting young.
- Stuyvesant Principal, Now Retired, Mishandled Cheating Case, Report Says—"The report said that after Stanley Teitel was tipped off by a student about the cheating, he set up a sting to catch the ringleader when he should have tried to pre-emptively thwart the cheating." NYT
- Texas audit finds school cheating goes undetected
- More primary school test results quashed due to 'cheating'—"Almost 600 primary school pupils had test results cancelled or downgraded last year because of cheating in the exams hall and mistakes by teachers, according to an official report."
- Bras begone: China clamps down on cheating in university entrance exams by banning brassieres
- India 'cheating' students expelled in Bihar—"More than 1,600 students have been expelled for cheating in school examinations in the northern Indian state of Bihar."
- North Carolina Becomes the Front Line of a Brutal Corporate Assault on Education Raging in America
- Break given to Christel House could have spared two IPS schools from state takeover—"Two Indianapolis Public Schools might never have been taken over by the state if then-Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett had offered the district the same flexibility he granted a year later to the Christel House Academy charter school."
- Oh, Brother: Emails from Jeb Bush's Education Privatization Group Prioritize Profit Over Pupils
- Public School Asks Parents to Pay $613 Per Student As Right-Wing Governor Destroys Public Education With Insane Defunding
- U.S. government sues to block vouchers in some Louisiana school systems
- College Costs Surge 500% in U.S. Since 1985: Chart of the Day
- More students than ever rely on federal college aid
- The Student-Loan Bubble Is Creating a Generation of Indentured Servants
- The American dream should really be called the American debt—"With college loan debt hitting us where it hurts, the American dream has become the American farce for Generations Y and Z."
- Higher education is a lifetime sentence of debt—"If a college degree is the new high school diploma, then we need to overhaul our school financing model accordingly." Salon
- Student Loan Forgiveness Program Available To Millions Who Aren't Utilizing It, CFPB Says
- Obama proposes college-rating system that could increase affordability
- 9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask
- White House pushes Congress on Syria after Obama's recoil—Let's see how they'll vote.
- John Kerry: US 'has evidence of Syrian sarin use'
- France will not attack Syria alone, PM to meet parliament leaders
- Syria allies: Why Russia, Iran and China are standing by the regime
- #Miranda: Where is the UK Government getting its numbers from?
- UK Asked New York Times To Destroy Edward Snowden Documents; NY Times Ignored Request
- Murdoch's Papers Fight the Guardian (and Free Speech)—"Journalism's circular firing squad, UK edition."
- NSA Spied on Al Jazeera Communications: Snowden Document—"Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency, according to documents seen by SPIEGEL. The US intelligence agency hacked into protected communication, a feat that was considered a particular success."
- To make journalism harder, slower, less secure—"That's what the surveillance state is trying to do. It has the means, the will and the latitude to go after journalism the way it went after terrorism. Only a more activist press, working together, stands a chance of resisting this."
