Education News

It is past time for Michigan's citizens and policymakers to acknowledge the crisis looming in the state's future: The state's public schools are failing to educate the next generation of Michiganders.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has scheduled a July 17 meeting with Education Superintendent John White to try to negotiate a compromise in their dispute over testing tied to the Common Core education standards, the governor's office announced Wednesday.

Many of us tend to align ourselves with either numbers or words. We're either math brains or we're reading brains.

It turns out that the human brain may not be as mysterious as it has always seemed to be.

A group of education advocates is calling on the District to release more information about students' performance on city tests, arguing that the limited data released in years past has overstated city schools' progress.

Joe Maffo's company, Critter Management, had its contract to remove alligators terminated by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources in late June.

The discord was so high Tuesday ahead of the meeting that Glenda Ritz, the state superintendent of public instruction, released a statement blasting a proposed resolution giving the board more control over a waiver of federal education requirements.

Patriots' attorney Andrew Phelan said Wednesday the team has agreed to produce 317 pages of materials sought by Hernandez's defense attorneys.

Cobb County police investigate an SUV where a toddler died near Marietta, Ga., when the father forgot to drop his child off at day care and went to work, in this file photo from June 18. Parents leaving children alone in a hot car, often with tragic consequences, have been making headlines this summer.

With a big line of storms barreling out of the mountains, we decided to meet at the Lincoln Memorial for a storm chase.

Most colleges and universities lack accurate information about the number of sex assaults on their campuses, and many fail to encourage students to report such violence, according to a report Wednesday from a Senate Democrat.

In 2011, the Center of American Progress released the first-ever attempt to evaluate the productivity of almost every major school district in the country.

"The more recess the better," she said. "If he doesn't have some kind of release of that energy it seems like he can't concentrate and that's even true at home."

Nicole Kidman , Colin Firth , and Mark Strong star in the upcoming film "Before I Go to Sleep," which is based on the bestselling novel of the same name by S.J. Watson.

The Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests are administered to students in grades 3-8 in the subjects of reading, language arts, math, science and social studies.

The Texas Constitution requires the Legislature to "establish and make suitable provisions for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools."

A Longs man was arrested Tuesday in connection with a sexual assault reported outside the Conway Wal-Mart last month, according to an incident report.

Across the country, the backlash grows against standardized tests, with parents, educators, state officials and students proclaiming they've had enough.

The Fourth of July 2014, in a way, can be compared to the Fourth of July 1776, in that our founders... Che Sun of China listens during math class at Newcomb Central School in Newcomb, N.Y., in Februrary.

Delegates of the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, voted at their annual convention to call on Duncan to resign after similar efforts had failed in previous years.