Education News

Amid the national debate over how best to improve our nation's public schools, data from scientific studies often are used to bolster one argument or discredit another - about the effectiveness of charter schools, say, or the value of standardized testing.

THE FIRST GIRL WAS AT A BUS STOP ON CEDAR LANE. 20 MINUTES LATER, ANOTHER GIRL REPORTED THE MAN APPROACHING HER, RIGHT NEAR KNOWLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

Don't try to sneak any risque language - or even watered down euphemisms - past Google's banned words directory included in the latest version of Android.

Bay Area schools fared well on this list of 2,000 schools, with six in the top 114, including Monte Vista High in Cupertino and Mission San Jose in Fremont .

In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, South Korean students cheer their seniors' success in the Scholastic Aptitude Test in front of the main gate of an examination hall in Seoul, South Korea.

Numbers compiled by the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance show per school student spending rose just over one percent during the last school year.

NOT A LOT BUT TO US EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS. THIS PAST WEEK WHEN FAMILIES WERE GATHERING AROUND THE TABLE TO GIVE THANKS, ONE SCHERTZ FAMILY HAD A UNIQUE BLESSING TO COUNT.

Public school letter grades, teacher evaluations and student promotion won't be affected by Louisiana's shift to more rigorous educational standards for two years, the state's top school board decided Tuesday.

"If I had to eulogize John Boylan in church, I'd have nothing to say. And it's a good thing the little kid just left the room," Andrew Payne said as he spoke about his tutor and friend to a group of over 50 people at the Ram's Head Inn on Sunday.

Republicans are fighting Republicans. Teacher unions are linking arms with tea partyers.

Republican-on-Republican infighting? Teacher unions linking arms with tea partyers? President Barack Obama working in tandem with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and energy giant Exxon? Traditionally Democratic-leaning groups don't like the standardized tests and are finding allies among small-government conservatives.

According to the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment , U.S. students have made little improvement overall in average math scores and are only average in science and reading.

Attorney General Greg Abbott will spend most of the next month talking about education, signaling that he won't cede any ground on the issue to state Sen. Wendy Davis , who is making her support of public schools a calling card in the governor's race.

Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, sent a shot across the bow of Utah schools in July by calling for an end to compulsory education laws.

You know, I have to admit, all has been pretty quiet on the education front recently.

One of the first things Nick Henkle wants to do at Rockdale School District 84 is put together a five-year plan and restore some morale to the small Will County district.

Fans and media members have spent two years debating whether Pierre Garcon is a No.

Don't do any practice tests or reviews the day before you take the LSAT. Relax and get enough rest for exam day.

Tuesday is "PISA Day," that is, the day that the 2012 results of reading, math and science tests will be released from the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, which tests 15 year olds every three years in more than 65 countries and education systems.

Third-graders take part in a class discussion known as "accountable talk." A big part of the Trotter School's turnaround success has been getting students to think critically.