School Survival

Lessons on how to use the internet safely should become compulsory in schools, university researchers say.The Cyberspace Research Unit at the University of Central Lancashire (UCL) says learning about internet safety should be on the National Curriculum.Pupils should be taught about the potential dangers posed, such as paedophiles using internet chatrooms to make contact with […]

In Kate Lamonda's class, small groups of children in 2nd and 3rd grades sit clustered around large tables, where they are separated by level of skill rather than age. A 7-year-old is working on the same poetry writing assignment as a 9-year-old, with one helping the other.Lincoln School in Mundelein is a boutique, offering an […]

The Secret Service is investigating a seventh-grader who wrote a school essay that authorities say advocated violence against President Bush, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and others.The boy's homework assignment for English class was to write what he would do on a perfect day. In addition to the president and Winfrey, the boy wrote that […]

"PTA", the acronym for the National Parent Teacher Association, conjures for many American adults fond memories of their parents attending parent-teacher conferences and baking cakes to help raise funds for the public schools that these adults as children attended. Memories are one thing but the National PTA is quite another. The national organization and its […]

An alumni group dedicated to "exposing the most radical professors" at the University of California at Los Angeles is offering to pay students $100 to record classroom lectures of suspect faculty.The Web site of the Bruin Alumni Association also includes a "Dirty Thirty" list of professors considered by the group to be the most extreme […]

Hungary's Ombudsman has told a primary school it must stop discriminating against its Roma (Gypsy) pupils after finding that it separated them from other children and listed them all as having learning disabilities.The school in Kerepes, about 10 km (6 miles) east of the capital Budapest, erected bars down a corridor to segregate Roma children […]

Georgetown University Law School students explain why they staged a protest to oppose Alberto Gonzales' speech defending government's wiretapping.On Tuesday, we stood and turned our backs on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The country's highest-ranking lawyer came to our school -- Georgetown University Law Center -- to convince the American public that the government's wiretapping program […]

It's a child's dream. Wake up whenever you want, with nobody telling you what to do and when to do it. And here's the kicker: No school to rush off to.Welcome to the world of "unschooling" -- an educational movement where kids, not parents, not teachers, decide what they will learn that day."I don't want […]

ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, is the most frequently diagnosed behavioral disorder in children. The diagnosis affects approximately 3 to 5% of school children or approximately 2 million children in the United States. A large number of children with ADHD, 40-60%, are also diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and/or Conduct Disorder (CD). According […]

The girl's father, Dave F. Swafford, was charged with felony battery on a school employee after he hit the 35-year-old Tuesday in front of a full class. A Tampa radio station named him "Father of the Year" and offered the family Daytona 500 race tickets.School surveillance cameras show that a teacher's aide who was punched […]