School Survival

By Chris Guillebeau How does a tenured, full professor lose his job? First, he throws out the grading system by deciding that every student gets an A+.Next, he tells students to rebel by showing how they, collectively, have more power and authority than any of the administration. Then, he gets arrested and taken away in […]

Parents could soon be using their iPhones to monitor a child's blood glucose levels throughout the day, whether that child is at school or at the beach.Of course, there are already dozens of iPhone apps available for tracking exercise, diet, and blood pressure-things where you type in the information yourself. But this new tool, unveiled […]

Obama's recent speech on education reform.REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON A COMPLETE AND COMPETITIVE AMERICAN EDUCATIONCourtesy of www.whitehouse.gov; Office of the Press Secretary; March 10th, 2009Send us your thoughts! We'll post reactions on Friday, March 20th. E-mail them to info@educationrevolution.orgWashington Marriott Metro CenterWashington, D.C.9:54 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Thank you. […]

A SHEPSHED school has apologised for sending a letter about truancy to the mother of a boy suffering from leukaemia after she asked to take him out of classes to meet the Pope.Louise Yates, of Cumbrian Way, wants to take her six-year-old son Travis on a two-day trip to the Vatican in June for a […]

(Old news, but still important) To Joel, the choice was simple: Go to school and be ridiculed because he had a hard time reading or stay home and smoke pot with his friends.So the 16-year-old Santa Ana boy skipped hundreds of days in his first two years of high school, until ditching caught up with […]

Fifteen people have been killed after a teenage gunman went on a rampage in south-west Germany, officials say. Most of the dead are thought to have been pupils at the Albertville secondary school in Winnenden, north of Stuttgart. The gunman, a 17-year-old former pupil, is also dead, police say. The teenager, who was said to […]

Parents face possible court action for withdrawing their children from lessons on gay and lesbian history. More than 30 pupils were pulled out of a week of teaching at a primary school which included books about homosexual partnerships. The controversial content was worked into the curriculum at George Tomlinson School in Waltham Forest, East London.The […]

Benjamin Berrafato, a fifth grade student from Seldon, New York, is fed up with homework and he's not going to take it anymore. In an open letter to his peers, Berrafato urges his fellow fifth graders to "unite against homework" and makes a case for why it should be abolished.Berrafato argues that homework is "cruel, […]

A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling: John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, put that now-famous expression of the title […]

ARLINGTON - Evidence abounds to indicate the United States is lagging behind other advanced-industrial nations in educational achievement, despite massive infusions of resources in technological, science and math education. Over the past decade, the country has resorted to standardized testing and fact-based education to ensure children learn basic math, reading and writing skills.But University of […]