School Survival

I have seen several sad things happen when adults start talking about listening to student voice and engaging students in schools. I say "sad" because of the feeling of sorrow, abandonment, and subtle resignation that settles in when I meditate on the following scenarios, which have really happened in the last few years.* After a […]

MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- The Miami-Dade County School District voted Tuesday to press ahead with its effort to remove a children's book on life in Cuba from its school libraries.The board voted 5-2 to appeal a federal judge's temporary order barring the district from removing the children's book, along with 23 others in the series.The […]

A Jefferson County Public Schools official said Dan Holden, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Stuart Middle School, burned a small flag in each of his two classes.Officials said he told administrators he was trying to motivate his students for a weekend writing assignment on the freedom of speech.The school district didn't find out about […]

More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams.A six-month Associated Press investigation found that more than 80 military recruiters were disciplined last […]

A mother whose son took his own life after his exam results talks about how such cases can be prevented.---Stress is part of life, but there are times when it seems worse than usual.Getting married, suffering a bereavement, even buying a house: all sorts of events add to the worry.Hundreds of thousands of teenagers have […]

Have you tried getting your parents to homeschool you, but they insist that they wouldn't know how to be teachers? Then you tried telling them about unschooling, but they thought that was just plain crazy? There is another option, and it's called online homeschooling... although technically it's really more plain online high school, with the […]

The bad news: You can't actually take the GED test at home or online. You have to physically attend a testing center to take the test there. The good news: You can prepare yourself for the test at home, and take practice tests online, so that when the time comes to take the real test, […]

Wading into a contentious issue that has pitted students and parents against City Hall, GOP state Senate candidate Robert Helbock said that, if elected, he would introduce legislation to allow the city Department of Education to prohibit the use of cell phones during school hours.Helbock said the legislation would permit students to carry their phones […]

This is something all teachers should read.=========Listening, looking, or doing? Make the most of what works.Stick with what works. That's what Judi Newell thought when she started talking about coins with her daughter, Fiona, 3. "A penny is brown and worth one cent," she began, pointing to a drawing of one in a book. "A […]

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A perfect score on the American College Testing exam is rare enough. Same goes for perfection on the SAT Reasoning Test. Acing both? No statistics are available on how many students manage that feat, but it's a safe bet that Bishop Carroll High School senior Jakub Voboril doesn't have a lot […]