Current Events
We're only 16 weeks into 2018, and there have already been 20 school shootings where someone was hurt or killed. That averages out to 1.25 shootings a week.
Education Commissioner Candice McQueen announced the reconvening of a special Tennessee Task Force on Student Testing and Assessment to further study and identify best practices in testing at the school, district, and state level.
The death of an icon in America's civil rights history is a reminder of how recently school segregation existed in the United States - and how little has changed since that time.
For 200 days, India Landry remained seated in protest during the Pledge of Allegiance at her Texas high school. Then, last week, the school's principal informed her that she would have to stand for the pledge or be forced to leave school.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in downtown Houston in U.S. southern state of Texas on Saturday for the "March for Our Lives" gun control rally, demanding the end of gun violence and mass school shootings.
Continuing his efforts to attract minority voters, Donald J. Trump visited an inner-city charter school on Thursday, where he promised to direct $20 billion in federal grants for poor children to attend a school of their family's choice.
As teachers in several states across the United States protest for higher pay and more funding for public education, lawmakers and onlookers are debating whether teachers deserve more money.
In an effort to address bullying in American schools, Senator Patrick Leahy joined Senator Bob Casey (D-Penn.) and more than 30 other senators to introduce the Safe Schools Improvement Act. Their bill is aimed at ensuring that no child is afraid to go to school for fear of unchecked bullying and harassment.
It is not just in Florida, where the mass shooting at a high school is prompting lawmakers to take up gun control legislation. The same thing is happening across the country, from Washington to Vermont.
President Trump responded to outrage over the latest shooting at an American school by tentatively backing reforms to the vetting system that is supposed to prevent the mentally ill and convicted criminals from buying guns.
The survivors of one of the deadliest school shootings in modern American history are still processing the attack on Wednesday in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 dead. One student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had an encounter with the shooting suspect that left him reeling.
Consider this from a disturbing new report on how U.S. schools teach - or, rather, don't teach - students about the history of slavery in the United States:
Whatever the reason, until accusations of sexual harassment and brutish behavior led to his retirement Monday from City Ballet and its School of American Ballet, Peter Martins reigned with impunity...
American private high schools are buzzing about something called the mastery transcript - a way to replace traditional letter grades with digital, evidence-based records of each student's academic achievements and character strengths. And it would be used in the college admissions process.
With installation costs plummeting, American schools are switching to solar energy at a rapid pace, reducing their electricity bills and freeing up resources to invest in education.
Tonight two students are dead. And investigators are searching for answers after an attacker opened fire at a high school in New Mexico. Another burst of violence at an Americanschool with all-too familiar scenes of students running for safety. NBC`s Joe Fryer has our report.
But putting guns into the hands of schoolteachers would be extraordinarily dangerous for black and Latino students, who are already often forced to try to learn in hostile environments where they're treated as threats.
The United States tumbled in international rankings released Tuesday of reading skills among fourth-graders, raising warning flags about students' ability to compete with international peers.
Despite being in the prime years to buy their first home, an overwhelming majority of millennials with student debt currently do not own a home and believe this debt is to blame for what they typically expect to be a seven-year delay from buying.
An African American woman has filed a federal lawsuit against a Mississippi school district, claiming a white student was named "co-valedictorian" with her daughter, despite the white student having a lower grade-point average.
The RAND Corporation and RAND Europe have released the first-ever, state-by-state analysis (in 47 states) of the economic implications of a shift in school start times in the U.S., showing that a nationwide move to 8.30 a.m. could contribute $83 billion to the U.S. economy within a decade.
Infant school children are showing signs of mental health issues such as anxiety, panic attacks and depression, according to a poll of teachers.
In Tennessee, an attack on a software vendor interrupted standardized testing this week and may have also caused delays in Mississippi. In Ohio, computers crashed statewide as students were getting ready to take that state's tests.
Maryland students using their shirts to spell a racial slur used against black people at a rally. Pennsylvania students posing with swastika-carved pumpkins. A Montana student photographed with a gun accompanied with a racial epithet.
Teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky continue to press lawmakers for better pay and conditions, while Arizona's educators begin weighing a walkout.
Pasco County's Ridgewood High saw an increase in dress code referrals Tuesday as a committed group of opponents protested the school's stricter clothing rules.
A Georgia school district has apologized after one of its teachers asked two high school students wearing "Make America Great Again" T-shirts to leave her classroom.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been a loyal proponent of school choice. In her home state of Michigan, DeVos advocated for both public school choice and vouchers to empower parents to send their children to private and religious schools.
In early 2017, Thomas Built Buses announced a revolutionary new feature for diesel engines: Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) Temperature Stabilization, also known as the Stay Warm feature.
U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Senator Chris Van Hollen today joined Prince Georges County officials and students at Greenbelt Middle School to announce a three-year, $25 million grant for Prince Georges County Public Schools.