School Survival

Analysis: Law schools growing, but jobs aren't To hear many students tell it, law school is a guaranteed ticket to a well-paying career. So a recent milestone must have sounded like good news.The United States last week became the world's first nation of 200 accredited law schools, as the American Bar Association gave provisional approval […]

LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) - The state Public Education Department and the American Civil Liberties Union are looking into a religious ceremony before graduation at Robertson High School that students were told they had to attend.Attendance at the May 19 baccalaureate at Immaculate Conception Church in Las Vegas was listed as mandatory in three separate […]

Instead of going green or using more fuel efficient buses two Arkansas school districts may go a different route to save money and the environment.The Mansfield and Hartford districts are considering cutting back classes from 5 days a week to 4.Students aren't getting off that easy though. The adjusted schedule would make the school day […]

The police arrive at your workplace and ask to see you. They solemnly tell you that your husband/wife/partner was viciously murdered in your home a short while earlier. Apparently your loved one forgot to lock the door properly and a psychopathic killer managed to walk in and commit this heinous crime.You are now hysterical with […]

Long school holidays in England should be cut to prevent children falling behind in class, a report has said.The Institute for Public Policy Research said studies suggested pupils' reading and maths abilities regressed because the summer break was too long.Instead, the think-tank said the school year could have five eight-week terms, with a month off […]

Students at McLoughlin Middle School are learning that civil disobedience comes at a cost. In the past two weeks, four eighth-grade boys have been arrested and charged with misdemeanors for leading protests against the school's dress code. About 20 more students have been suspended.Parents of those students are wondering whether this tough-love approach has gone […]

Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true. After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat […]

New page in the Comic Relief section: 12 Funny Reasons Why School is Good for You. It's a parody of the various reasons people give as to why school is good for you. If you like it, add it to as many social bookmarking sites as you can (digg, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, etc). :)[link]

New York 8th-Graders Boycott Practice Exam But Teacher May Get Fired.----AMY GOODMAN: Very quickly, you did a story yesterday: "New York 8th-Graders Boycott Practice Exam But Teacher May Get Ax." He was fired, and what happened?JUAN GONZALEZ: Yeah. Well, this is an amazing story in the South Bronx at an intermediate school. Last week, 160 […]

BOSTON -- A Billerica, Mass., mother is furious after her 14-year-old daughter was suspended for a day from her middle school for wearing a T-shirt that said "SOPHOMORE 69."Christina Morrison, an eighth-grader at the Marshall Middle School, was sent to the office Tuesday when she arrived at school wearing the shirt. The assistant principal told […]