School Survival

Young carers struggle without the help they urgently need, often due to fear that they may be separated from their families, a report suggests. Michael is one such carer.He is just like any other five-year-old - but unlike most of his peers Michael Gunstone has had to learn to look after himself as well as […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand's high school students will be able to use "text-speak" -- the mobile phone text message language beloved of teenagers -- in national exams this year, officials said.Text-speak, a second language for thousands of teens, uses abbreviated words and phrases such as "txt" for "text", "lol" for "laughing out […]

SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Monday that the U.S. higher education system is the envy of the world but primary and secondary schools are failing to adequately prepare students for college.In an interview with The Associated Press, Gates said the experience of being a parent of three kids -- ages […]

The headmaster of an Edinburgh school where pupils have gone back to using fountain pens said they helped to raise academic performance.The writing policy at Mary Erskine and Stewart's Melville Junior School in Edinburgh means children a young as seven are using the pens.Bryan Lewis, the school's head teacher, said the practice helped boost youngsters' […]

"A useless piece of garbage who wouldn't know chemistry if it ran him over...""She spends all our lessons on her mobile texting her boyfriend...""I didn't like her as a teacher... she had a weird smell of vodka to her." (Anonymous posts on ratemyteachers.co.uk)Teachers have always had to put up with personal jibes from kids.Until very […]

England's education secretary is said to be exploring ways to raise the school leaving age to 18.Alan Johnson told political journalists that "staying on" rates must improve.He said it was unacceptable for a 16-year-old to be in employment without getting help with continued schooling or training for qualifications.An aide said later that ways of overcoming […]

A SCHOOL headmaster was branded a killjoy yesterday after he ordered pupils to stop HUGGING each other.Steven Kenning told teens to quit embracing because it made them late for lessons.He said hugging could be deemed "inappropriate" and "victims" could be hugged against their will.The barmy rule was posted on the website of Callington Community College, […]

A fire that began in a chemistry lab destroyed a high school, leaving more than 1,000 students without a school building for the rest of the year.A teacher spotted the fire around 2 p.m. Wednesday at Eastern Guilford High School and tried to put it out with an extinguisher, but then pulled the alarm. The […]

A suburban Fort Worth, Texas, school district has halted a program teaching students to attack a gunman if he invades a classroom, administrators said Wednesday.The district will continue to train students in how to respond to life-threatening situations but no longer will show them how to take down an attacker, spokesman Richard Crummel said.Robin Browne, […]

A high school principal received a six-day suspension and a letter of reprimand for giving one of his students a wedgie.Eric Messerli pulled a Park High School senior's soccer jersey over his head and yanked upward on the waistband of the boy's underwear at a soccer game October 5. Other school officials said he was […]