Bill to Decriminalize Truancy Moves Forward in Texas
...while a similar bill in Colorado gets watered down.
Education
Schools Treat Mild Misbehavior Like Capital Crime. It Has to Stop.
Won't someone please think of the children?
L.A. Schools Wasted Millions on a Failed iPad Initiative. Now They Want Their Money Back.
Not a lot of "learning" happening here.
What's Worse for This Teen's Health: Smoking an E-Cig, or Getting Tackled, Arrested, and Charged?
Watch the video and decide for yourself.
Student Who Pranked His Teacher Should Get Detention, Not Jail and a Felony
Miscreants, not criminals
Helpful Hackers vs. College Regulators
Why are state governments cracking down on innovative coding academies?
Fifth Grader Suspended for 'Illegal' Filming of Teacher Who Bullied Student
The war on cameras opens up a battlespace in the classroom.
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear First Amendment Case Challenging School Ban on American Flag Shirts
SCOTUS declines to review high-profile First Amendment dispute.
Boy Got a Haircut Like His Military Step-Brother, School Suspended Him
Why is it okay for public school officials to place totally unnecessary, soul-crushing restrictions on students?
'We Have a Lot of Demand From Families Trying to Get Away From Common Core'
The controversial standards represent an opportunity for private schools and homeschoolers
Trigger Warning: Jazz Hands
Students asked to refrain from anxiety-triggering clapping, use jazz hands instead
Here's What's Wrong With the Nation's "Investigation" of New York's Evil Charter School Plot and the Greedy Hedge Fund Moguls Who Fund It
A useful compendium of all the head-scratching arguments commonly voiced by school choice opponents.
The Democrats Have a New Warren/De Blasio, and He's Awful (UPDATED)
Rahm Emanuel challenger Chuy Garcia is setting progressive hearts aflutter, largely because his economic ideas are terrible
Pricing the Public Out of Public Records: $100 for a School-Board Meeting Record?
Ain't no sunshine in West Lafayette
Revisiting '90s Feminists on Campus Rape
#TBT: We've been having the same sexual-assault debate for more than 20 years.
Giving Kids 'Help' At the End of a Gun
Defenders of the status quo push back against a Colorado proposal to decriminalize truancy.
A Win for School Choice: Charters Are Coming to Alabama
The State Will Be the 44th to Allow Charters
Religion in the Public Sphere Makes a God-Awful Mess
Of theology, trigger warnings, and tolerance
This Kid Was Expelled and Charged for Bringing Pot to School, Even Though He Didn't
Zero tolerance: Virginia school officials stand by their wrongful expulsion of an 11-year-old boy.
The Melodramatic Strain In Feminist Politics
Students suffer as social-justice signaling demands increasingly hyperbolic vulnerability.
The New York City Teachers Union Opened its Own Charter School. Disaster Ensued.
An attempt to demonstrate that unions are compatible with high performing schools unravels.
Florida, the Freest State in the Country?
California, New York, and New Jersey always rank near the bottom of these lists as intrusive, red tape-bound hellholes.
LA School Officials Admit iPad Plan Was Unaffordable and Distracting
When you're spending other people's money...
Canadian Schools Are Strip-Searching Teens And That's Cool with the Government
Ah, the joy of government-run schooling.
Substitute Teacher Caught on Video Writing Crude Insult About a Student
Streamwood High School substitute has some explaining to do
How Eva Moskowitz Outmuscled the Teachers Union
A charter school pioneer counters the political influence of organized labor.
I Don't Care Whether the President Believes in Evolution and Neither Should You
How is this question related to actual federal policy?
Waldorf, Montessori, Unschooling: Alternative Education Comes to China
Middle-class parents give Western models a try.
