Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Millben (USAF Retired), who is 78 years old and has dedicated much of his adult life as a volunteer at Davis Aerospace Technical High School was unceremoniously removed from the campus on...
// // It seems that The Satanic Temple is putting the Separation of Church and State to the test in Florida. Or rather, it is putting the Florida School Board's policy of allowing religious material...
It was reported last week that there was no heat in Durfee Elementary-Middle School in Detroit, MI. Students were released early on Wednesday, November 12. Classroom temperatures had reached lows of 53 degrees and students...
A Virginia father, Britton Ellis, began to suspect something was going on at Pemberton Elementary School when his autistic daughter, Presley, no longer wanted to go to class. He sent an audio recorder in Presley's...
A screenshot of student progress on ClassDojo (from AuburnChick's Flickr)
A number of teachers across the country from pre-K to high school have begun trying a new way to handle a longstanding issue--monitoring their students' progress in the classroom. Many of them are turning to...
Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte (courtesy Debe Maxwell's Photobucket)
// // The latest entry in the "what were they thinking?" department comes from a high school in my hometown of Charlotte, NC. On November 13, some biology students at Ardrey Kell High School got...
Disturbing video footage captured of 14-year-old boy being assaulted by workers inside a Virginia Christian boarding has surfaced. The video resulted in the employees -- three life coaches and a program director --?being arrested and charged...
Concrete Roses STEM Academy in Charlotte (courtesy WFAE)
// // Late last month, Concrete Roses STEM Academy, a charter school in my hometown of Charlotte, abruptly shut down just 20 days after opening its doors for the first time, sending kids scrambling to...
// // Two teachers in Louisiana have been arrested and have been charged with various charges in relation to having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old male student at Destrehan High. After investigating, Shelley Dufresne, a...
Concrete Roses STEM Academy in Charlotte (courtesy WFAE)
Last week, I mentioned that Concrete Roses STEM Academy, a charter school in my hometown of Charlotte, abruptly closed its doors just 20 days into its first year. On Thursday, Concrete Roses' founder broke his...
From the Los Angeles Register: A Riverside schools committee has banned the book The Fault in Our Stars from its middle schools after a parent challenged the teen love story as inappropriate for that age group. Following a...
// // From Business Insider: The American Community Survey is an annual survey run by the Census Bureau to allow the government, corporate and academic researchers, and anyone who is curious about demographics to better understand...
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Teachers in Jefferson County, Colorado called in sick Friday to protest disputes over questionable curriculum. They are being forced to use Advanced Placement (AP) history curriculum that whitewashes history in a way that erases evidence...
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An Annenberg Public Policy Center has revealed that only 36 percent of Americans can name all three branches of the U.S. federal government -- Legislative, Executive, and Judicial -- and 35 percent ?could not name...
Sharing your lunch is apparently a punishable offense in a California elementary school. Kyle Bradford, an eighth grade student at Weaverville Elementary School, received detention for sharing his chicken burrito with a friend on Tuesday (9-16). //...
Concrete Roses STEM Academy in Charlotte (courtesy WFAE)
// // On Thursday morning, parents of students at a charter school in my hometown of Charlotte got an unpleasant surprise. Their school will shut its doors at the end of the week due to...
Ben Carson at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
// // We already know that Ben Carson has torpedoed his reputation as one of the greatest neurosurgeons this nation has produced in favor of becoming a water-carrier for the far right. Remember, this is...
Another family has lost their son to bullying. // // Lamar Hawkins III, a 14-year-old middle school student, walked into the school bathroom of the Greenwood Lakes Middle School in Seminole County, Fla. and committed suicide...
AvaLynn Harris, being held by her mother Lacey a few days after being hurt on the playground (from the Justice for AvaLynn Facebook page)
On Tuesday, I told you about AvaLynn Harris, a five-year-old girl from Pascagoula, Mississippi who suffered grisly facial injuries on August 22 while on the playground with her kindergarten classmates--specifically, two black eyes and a...
AvaLynn Harris, being held by her mother Lacey a few days after being hurt on the playground (from the Justice for AvaLynn Facebook page)
A mother in Pascagoula, Mississippi is demanding answers after her five-year-old daughter came home from kindergarten with grisly facial injuries. The school says that the little girl fell on the playground, but the mother doesn't...