What does Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Ontario, Poland, Shanghai, Singapore, and Taiwan have in common? They are home to some of the world’s top-performing school systems. Notice who is missing? The United States. Why is that?
In a recently released report, titled “No Time to Lose: How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State,” a bipartisan group of state lawmakers and legislative staffers share the findings of an 18-month quest to figure out what schools can do here to become top
Darius Brown, 18, graduated from Lancaster High School recently and is the first from the campus to receive the Gates Millennium Scholars award, which will pay for college through a doctorate degree. He will attend Texas A&M University in the fall.
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A South Carolina sheriff says he acted swiftly but carefully in firing a school resource officer caught on video flipping a disruptive student out of her desk and tossing her across the floor. In the wake of the firing, though, questions remain about whether the officer should have been in the classroom in the first place, and where the former deputy goes from here.
The Spring Valley High School student refused to leave the classroom Monday despite being to
"She is hurt and literally, this is someone who is physically in pain because of what she endured, as she literally flew across the classroom," attorney Todd Rutherford said.
He said the girl's arm is in a cast, she has a rug burn on her forehead and has pai
Three students were wounded in a shooting on Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee, police said, and the suspected gunman was shot and killed by officers.
The shooting happened early this morning at the university's Stozier Library, which was packed at the time with hundreds of students studying for exams.
An officer responding to the scene fatally wounded the suspected gunman after he fired at police, Tallahassee Police Department public information officer David Northw
 Sakinah Muhammad My Thing Is: My College Bound partner is almost like another parent, and I know I couldn’t have done this without her. I want to help another kid the way she helped me. My name is Sakinah Muhammad. I graduated from Temple University in May as a criminal-justice major with a minor in psychology. My next step is working for Houston Teach for America Corps while I attend graduate school at St. Thomas University. So much of where I am now is because of w |
Just hours after the government released its 16th annual report on school safety Tuesday, a tragic school shooting took place at Reynolds High School near Portland, Oregon. The incident left one student and the shooter dead, police said. While the School Crime and Safety Report — a 208-page study that details the rate of crime taking place in American’s public and private institutions — says America’s schools have gotten safer, the country clearly still has a problem when it comes to protecti |
 Families from a local home school co-op network enjoy a nature walk on Dykeman Trail. Pictured are, from left, Rebekah Kuriakose, Aliza Kuriakose, Talya Kuriakose, Eliana Kuriakose, Grace Gunnett and Naomi Gunnett. Families who choose to homeschool their children aren’t necessarily on their own. There are cooperatives that exist to help families in choosing a curriculum and generally making the most of their children’s education. One of those is the Extracurricular Co-Op started by Kendra Bur |
A brawl broke out at a kindergarten graduation ceremony in Cincinnati Monday morning that ended up with the Springfield Township school being locked down.
The brawl took place at Mt. Healthy North Elementary School’s cafeteria where the parents and friends gathered for punch and cookies to celebrate the graduation of 150 kindergarteners. Allegedly, the fighting began when Raymond Walker, 33, approached Dominique Garrett, the boyfriend of his child’s mother, and punched him. Police have charged
Sarah Caron made her son his favorite pancakes for breakfast and walked the second-grader to the top of the driveway for the school bus.
Exodus Movement from Oklahoma will be hosting a FREE School Supplies Event at Ralph Ellison Library in Oklahoma City on July 23rd from 11:00a.m. - 2:00p.m. They are giving away 150 free back packs stuffed with supplies with everything from paper and pencils to crayons and notebooks. Also included in each back pack will be their latest CD, Redefinition.
