Public schools

Free-Range Kids

Kid Suspended for Bringing an Empty Shell Casing to School

Lenore Skenazy | 12.16.2014 9:10 AM

Policy

LA Schools Learn Wrong Lesson from iPad Debacle, Buy Chromebooks and Laptops

Robby Soave | 12.2.2014 12:22 PM

Policy

iPad Pain

Billion dollar bust

Robby Soave | 12.1.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Kids Tweet #ThanksMichelleObama for Crappy Public School Lunches

Robby Soave | 11.21.2014 3:52 PM

Civil Liberties

Schools to Parents: Pick Up Your Kids from the Bus Or We'll Sic Child Services on You

Robby Soave | 11.20.2014 11:13 AM

Civil Liberties

Middle Schoolers Suspended for Pretending to Smoke Candy

Lenore Skenazy | 11.18.2014 9:45 AM

Common Core

Common Core Replaces Gym Class With Yet More Frustrating Math Lessons

Robby Soave | 11.12.2014 9:15 AM

Policy

Schools Implement Explicit Racial Bias in Suspensions

Robby Soave | 11.11.2014 2:30 PM

Zero Tolerance

Colorado School Goes into Lockdown Because… Gravity Bong!

Robby Soave | 11.7.2014 6:25 PM

Policy

94% of Teachers Rated 'Effective' in District Where Schools Got 'F' Grades

Robby Soave | 11.4.2014 3:58 PM

Public schools

ACLU and EFF Call Out Tennessee School District for Violating Students' Constitutional Rights

Lucian McMahon | 11.3.2014 4:05 PM

Civil Liberties

School Paid Ex-FBI Agent $157,000 to Spy on Kids' Facebook Pages

Robby Soave | 11.3.2014 12:13 PM

Civil Liberties

No Warrant, No Problem: Students' Lockers Searched at Random By Drug Dogs

Robby Soave | 11.3.2014 9:10 AM

Policy

Convoluted Common Core Math Leaves Parents Baffled

So ignore it and teach your kids the right way.

Reason Staff | 11.2.2014 2:40 PM

Civil Liberties

Student's Art Project Deemed 'Harassment' of School Officials

Robby Soave | 10.30.2014 10:35 AM

Civil Liberties

Maybe Your Kid Won't Be Ear-Tagged After All. Student-Tracking Loses Favor.

J.D. Tuccille | 10.27.2014 3:56 PM

Public schools

Jersey Town Takes Neighboring Town to Court Over Referendum About Where to Send Students to School, Lost

East Newark's children attend schools in Harrison but a tuition hike prompted them to consider Kearny. Harrison didn't want voters of E. Newark to decide

Reason Staff | 10.24.2014 1:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Does Being 'Banned' Help Book Sales?

A literary Streisand Effect

Jesse Walker | 10.21.2014 5:17 PM

Policy

LA Schools: Millions for iPads, But Not One Cent for Math Textbooks

Robby Soave | 10.17.2014 6:15 PM

Public schools

L.A. School Superintendent Resigns

Clashed with teachers, had big scandal over iPads for students

Reason Staff | 10.16.2014 6:10 PM

Sex Crimes

Teacher's Aide Sent 14-Year-Old-Girl to Bathroom to Get Sexually Assaulted by a 16-Year-Old Eighth Grade Boy So He Could Get Caught in the Act

Ed Krayewski | 10.13.2014 12:06 PM

Civil Liberties

Little Girl Points Crayon at Classmate, School Makes Her Sign Contract Promising Not to Kill Anyone

"Mommy, daddy, what is suicide?"

Robby Soave | 10.10.2014 12:12 PM

Politics

Poll: 60% Say Childhood Vaccinations Should be Required, 52% Say Unvaccinated Children Should Be Banned From Public Schools

Emily Ekins | 10.9.2014 3:15 PM

Civil Liberties

Gun Range Moves in Next Door to School, Boundless Hysteria Ensues

Robby Soave | 10.9.2014 12:02 PM

Policy

The Nation Explains How to 'Save' Public Schools, Scare Quotes Necessary

Robby Soave | 10.8.2014 8:45 AM

Politics

Charter School Supporters Hold a Massive Rally in New York City

Protesters demand "Great Schools Now."

Jim Epstein | 10.2.2014 5:54 PM

Civil Liberties

Moms Fed Up with School 'Stranger Danger' Paranoia

Lenore Skenazy | 10.1.2014 3:30 PM

Policy

Watch Bill Gates Confirm Everybody's Worst Fears About Common Core

Robby Soave | 9.30.2014 10:42 AM

Civil Liberties

Teen Jailed for Zero Tolerance Offense, Starved for 36 Hours

Robby Soave | 9.29.2014 4:40 PM

Policy

Common Core Ads Claim Standards Will Equalize All Children

Robby Soave | 9.26.2014 12:25 PM

Policy

Colorado Curriculum Tussle Yet Another Reason to Ditch Public Schools

J.D. Tuccille | 9.24.2014 12:03 PM

Civil Liberties

School Secretly Monitoring Students' Facebook Posts—On Advice from NSA

Robby Soave | 9.24.2014 10:49 AM

Civil Liberties

School Says Students Need to Hear What Madman's Gunfire Sounds Like

Chillingly fatalistic.

Lenore Skenazy | 9.22.2014 12:48 PM

Civil Liberties

School Punishes Boy For Sharing His Lunch with Hungry Friend

Robby Soave | 9.22.2014 11:46 AM

Policy

More Hysteria Over Toy Guns and Non-Guns in Schools

Robby Soave | 9.19.2014 12:45 PM

Censorship

High School Newspaper Editor, Adviser Suspended for Refusing to Print a Particular Word

Scott Shackford | 9.19.2014 11:00 AM

Civil Liberties

School Insanity: 17-Year-Old Hunter Faces 'Zero Tolerance' Criminal Charges

Robby Soave | 9.18.2014 4:06 PM

Civil Liberties

Kid With Laser Pointer Suspended Under Weapons Policy, Because Lasers = Guns

Robby Soave | 9.17.2014 11:30 AM

Policy

Common Core Will Make Schools in U.S. More Like China and That's Not a Good Thing

Robby Soave | 9.16.2014 12:13 PM

Civil Liberties

Girl Writes About Pot in Her Diary, School Reads It and Suspends Her All Year

Robby Soave | 9.15.2014 4:45 PM

Science & Technology

Possibly Corrupt LA District Superintendent Looks for Evidence School Board Is Also Corrupt

Robby Soave | 9.12.2014 12:12 PM

Civil Liberties

Cops Tackle 70-Pound High Schooler…And Guess What Her 'Crime' Was

Robby Soave | 9.12.2014 8:45 AM

Education

Florida Kindergarden Teacher Is Almost Certainly Going to Get Canned for Refusing to Administer Tests

Lucian McMahon | 9.11.2014 3:41 PM

Policy

D.C. Piano Prodigy Misses 10 Days of Public School, Gets Labeled "Truant." Now She's Homeschooled.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.8.2014 2:41 PM

Zero Tolerance

School Board Bans Chapstick: Gateway Drug to What … Maybe Burt's Bees Lip Balm?

Ronald Bailey | 9.8.2014 11:23 AM

Civil Liberties

For Crime of Violating Dress Code, Girl Must Wear Shirt of Shame

Robby Soave | 9.7.2014 9:00 AM

Police Abuse

Autistic 10-Year-Old Handcuffed, Pinned to Back of Hot Police Car: Why?

Cop: "We sort of own the situation."

Robby Soave | 9.4.2014 1:42 PM