Education News Stories

WASHINGTON – House Republicans on Thursday pushed ahead with a plan to update the federal No Child Left Behind education law by shifting more control to states and school districts in determining whether children are learning. A hearing on a … Continue reading →

JOHANNESBURG – The 60-year-old beloved South African musician shows up five days a week to sit behind a scarred desk in a bare-bones classroom, studying for the high school diploma he missed when he dropped out to pursue a career … Continue reading →

CHESTERFIELD, N.J. – Officials say 17 students were injured in a southern New Jersey school bus crash that killed the daughter of a state trooper and critically injured two other children. The accident happened Thursday morning at a four-way intersection … Continue reading →

CANFIELD, Ohio – A northeast Ohio elementary school says a missing Mickey Mouse spurred a brief lockdown while parents were visiting the school for Valentine’s Day parties. The Vindicator in Youngstown ( http://bit.ly/wj00n5) reports a parent wanted to surprise a … Continue reading →

(Reuters) – Education advocates on Wednesday pushed New York State to increase funding for schools in impoverished areas in the budget for the new fiscal year, saying those schools are owed $5.5 billion under a 2007 court ruling. The Education … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday spelled out details of a proposed new $5 billion Race to the Top-style competition focused on improving teacher quality. Among the changes the administration is seeking: higher teaching salaries, compensation tied to … Continue reading →

Several of the Little Rock Nine leave Central High School under troop escort, 1957. (Central High Museum Historical … On September 4, 1957, nine African-American students arrived at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, to attend their first day of … Continue reading →

(Reuters) – U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a scathing critique of teacher training colleges on Wednesday as he unveiled a $5 billion initiative to transform the teaching profession. Duncan argued that the profession needed to become more selective, offer … Continue reading →

SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico is becoming the latest state to free itself from an unpopular federal system of rating public schools. President Barack Obama’s administration on Wednesday granted New Mexico the flexibility to implement its own school grading … Continue reading →

NEWARK, N.J. – A fifth person charged in the execution-style killings of three friends in a New Jersey schoolyard has been convicted. An Essex County jury on Tuesday found Jose Carranza guilty of felony murder and robbery charges. It acquitted … Continue reading →