School Survival

For the first time in a generation, public schools have won broad freedom to teach boys and girls separately, stirring a new debate about equality in the classroom.The Education Department on Tuesday announced rules that will make it easier to create single-sex classes or schools, a plan that's been expected for almost three years.The move […]

Politics has become a game for a group of California college students who have launched an online video game, "Fantasy Congress," in the lead-up to next month's U.S. congressional elections.The game, officially launched on Monday, is a new spin on the popular online fantasy sports games where players chose a team of real-life players and […]

It takes more than a lunch lady to run today's public school cafeterias. It takes a logistics expert.Take Rome's West End Elementary, where two classrooms of students charge into the lunchroom every five minutes, load their trays up with corn dogs, steak nuggets and fresh fruit and pile into cashier Lydia Galego's line.Galego, though, has […]

A principal from Edmonton, Alberta, asked the teachers at his junior high school to do their own summer reading on whether homework actually works.The result, as reported by Toronto, Canada's, Globe and Mail: "With their return to the classroom this fall, teachers at the affluent Edmonton school are thinking twice about the pages of homework […]

With a recent survey suggesting almost 50% of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder have been excluded at some point, parents face difficult choices.Up to one in 20 children have ADHD, which affects concentration and can cause them to be disruptive.Many are being put on medication but unions warn that some schools cannot meet their […]

Schools in England are "borrowing" good teachers to help them pass their Ofsted inspections, researchers have said.Academics at Manchester University visited schools serving inner-city or rural areas in 30 local authorities.They found some schools imported strong teachers to help impress inspectors and heard of weak pupils being sent on work experience during an inspection.Ofsted said […]

A primary school pupil in Bristol has been suspended after threatening his headteacher with a knife.The headteacher was not injured in the incident, which happened at the Two Mile Junior School in the Kingswood area of the city on Thursday.The nine year old is understood to have brandished the blade during a lesson.Bristol City Council […]

Columnist Armstrong Williams has reached a settlement with prosecutors regarding payments he received by the Education Department to promote President Bush's agenda.Under the settlement, Williams admits no wrongdoing but will have to pay $34,000. The deal was reached last week by Williams, the Education Department and its subcontractor, Ketchum Communications."The department is happy to see […]

A candidate for state superintendent of schools said Thursday he wants thick used textbooks placed under every student's desk so they can use them for self-defense during school shootings."People might think it's kind of weird, crazy," said Republican Bill Crozier of Union City, Oklahoma, a teacher and former Air Force security officer. "It is a […]

Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.Recess is "a time when accidents can happen," said Willett Elementary School Principal Gaylene Heppe, who approved the ban.While there is no […]