- Pop-Tart school-gun bill clears first hurdle in Florida—"Legislators here are working to keep students from getting in serious trouble for simulating a weapon with harmless objects like their fingers, Pop-Tarts or Legos."
- NRA Backs Fla. "Pop Tart" Gun Bill Because Playing With Toy Guns at School Is Totally a Kid's Right
- Chicago School Officials Suspend 11-Year-Old Boy Under 'Dangerous Weapons' Policy for Voluntarily Turning in Non-Firing Toy Gun
- Boy points finger like gun, gets suspended
- New Hanover County Schools remove 'Zero Tolerance' Policy
- Texas student suspended after bringing beer to school by mistake
- Clarksville Student Suspended For Knife In Father's Car—30 days (down from 90) is still too much.
- Boy arrested after throwing snowball at cop—"13-year-old being charged with a felony following incident."
- Teen: Teachers Made Me Stand Outside In Wet Bathing Suit, Barefoot
- University policy will force students to wear trackable identification at all times
- 'Toy gun' found at Flint's Doyle-Ryder Elementary, two students arrested on disorderly conduct charges—"While police called it a 'toy gun,' Watkins said he believed in was a BB gun," which is an expellable offense.
- Student brings gun to elementary school—"The 11-year-old boy brought the .44-caliber handgun to Feaster Charter School in a backpack to show a few other students on Jan. 31, police said. He didn’t wave it around or threaten anybody, they added."
- Ind. House OKs bill to allow guns in cars at schools
- Associates defend man who had gun in school—Ironically, an advocate of the SAFE act, "the state law that made carrying a gun on school property a felony."
- When May I Shoot a Student?—"Modest questions about an Idaho bill allowing guns on campus." NYT
- Many Minnesota students are subjected to lunch refusals, including 'tray pulls'
- USDA Tells Schools: Don't Refuse Food To Students Who Owe
- ACLU takes case of bus driver fired over Facebook posting—"Johnny Cook said that he was terminated from his job after he made a post about a child who he said was refused a free lunch."
- Howell elementary student raising money to cover unpaid school lunch bills for classmates
- Policies need to make sure all students get a hot lunch
- Paul Ryan: Free School Lunch Means Poor Parents Don't Care About Kids—He just loves the poor.
- Student Loans Are Ruining Your Life. Now They're Ruining the Economy, Too—"American students are well over $1 trillion in debt, and it's starting to hurt everyone, economists say."
- Feds file suit against for-profit college chain—"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed suit Wednesday against a large, for-profit college chain alleging that it pushed students into high-cost private student loans knowing they would likely end in default."
- Elizabeth Warren: Sallie Mae May Be Hurting Borrowers, Taxpayers—Can she get student loans refinanced?
- TN Governor makes education top priority in State of the State address—"Addressing a packed House chamber, Gov. Haslam announced what he called the 'Tennessee Promise'; the plan allows for all high school students to get two years of college education for free."
- Free Online University Receives Accreditation, in Time for Graduating Class of 7—"The University of the People, built to reach underserved students around the world, announced Thursday that it had received accreditation." NYT
- Can free community college save the US economy?
- Cut Off Harvard to Save America—"University endowments promote inefficiency and are anti-meritocratic."
- Alamo Colleges trustees OK new approach to textbooks
- Oklahoma schools required to teach high school students to manage finances—"Oklahoma students, effective this May, now must demonstrate an understanding in banking, taxes, investing, loans, insurance, identity theft and eight other areas to graduate. Teachers are required to certify students' working knowledge in each area."
- The Myth Behind Public School Failure—"In the rush to privatize the country's schools, corporations and politicians have decimated school budgets, replaced teaching with standardized testing, and placed the blame on teachers and students."
- Carolina Confronts Classroom Corruption as Athletes Fail to Read
- Rutgers makes professor teach class he is clueless about, suspends him for telling students
- Fight Over Effective Teachers Shifts to Courtroom NYT
- Sharpen those pencils: The SAT test is getting harder—Bye-bye essay section [WaPo].
- Why the SAT is really changing: It's facing tough competition from the ACT WaPo
- The Problem Isn't What's on the SAT. The Problem Is the SAT Itself—"Make no mistake: The next revolution is an educational one. And America can only be at the forefront of it by disregarding for-profit standardized tests."
- The University of Tennessee's Sex Week Will Go on Despite Major Controversy
- Philly-area student gets prize -- and more -- after being snubbed jackpot for half-court basketball shot—Props to Pizza Hut. Free good-will publicity for them.
- Columbus school board admits to illegal meetings, settles 'Dispatch' lawsuit
- Poudre School District destroys records to deny special needs family's access
- An inconvenient child—"My six-year-old son was suspended as a danger to others. His crime? Apraxia, a disability you could find in any classroom."
- 11-year-old girl's cupcake business shut down by Madison County officials
- Victoria's Secret store bans mom from breastfeeding
- New Study Confirms It: Breast-Feeding Benefits Have Been Drastically Overstated
- Nick Lachey Says 'It Takes a Lot of Courage' for Media to Adopt #NoKidsPolicy
- Graco recalls nearly 4 million car seats because children may get trapped
- Family Outraged Over Suspension Of Westlake High Senior Class President—"Friends and Conti supporters accuse Westlake High Principal Ron Lipari of coming down hard on Conti and protecting the school's football program."
- Suspended Rudder High School Teen Speaks Out—Stood up for someone getting harrased; gets suspended.
- Child attempts suicide after being bullied at school for being a fan of My Little Pony
- Former high school bully congratulates gay victim after seeing marriage proposal online
- Motivating teenagers: How do you do it?—"Helicopter parenting has crippled American teenagers. Here's how to fix it."
- It's Complicated: An interview with danah boyd about teens and technology.
- Sponsor of Kansas spanking bill says it would help define corporal punishment, restore parental rights
- NY lawmaker: Parents should take parenting classes—Some parents don't know the fuck they're doing.
- The tyranny of the "bad mother": Slacker moms are just as intimidating as perfect ones Salon
- Judge Denies Tuition Money, Child Support For NJ Teen Suing Parents
- Parents force 5-year-old to drink grape soda until she dies, prosecutor says
- Judge accepts father's insanity plea in decapitation
- Boy, 11, is beaten and stabbed to death by his father at cricket practice
- Philadelphia couple face prison after sons' prayer deaths
- Baby to undergo blood transfusions despite objection of Jehovah's Witnesses parents—"High Court judge agrees to proceedure despite his parents' objections on religious grounds."
- US doctor found guilty of waterboarding his 11-year-old stepdaughter
- U.S. Navy destroyer heads to Black Sea for pre-planned exercises
- Russians sink a boat off Ukraine coast - their own
- EU leaders to hold emergency talks
- CIA reportedly says Russia sees treaty as justifying Ukraine moves—It "allows up to 25,000 Russia troops in the vital Crimea region, so Russia may not consider its recent troop movements to be an invasion."
- State-Funded Channel's Anchorwoman Hits Kremlin On Ukraine
- Russian professor under pressure over Nazi comparison on Ukraine
- Crimea votes to join Russia, Obama orders sanctions
