Education News

Parentline Plus, a parental charity in Britain, has just launched an online dictionary of teen slang to help parents better communicate with their kids.

Two Shelby High School seniors face a ton of paperwork as they document why they should be chosen as National Merit Scholarship finalists.

The next ACT test will be administered Oct. 25. Students who wish to take the college admission and placement exam must register by Sept.

Atul Vyas scored in the top 1 percent on his medical school entry exams, but he was having trouble answering one question on applications to Harvard and Duke: Describe a hardship you've overcome.

When teachers across North Carolina saw their annual performance bonus cut this year, most didn't know it was coming.

According to attorney Chris Klicka, the primary battle home schoolers used to face was the right to home school -- and legal battles over state regulation of home schools continue to crop up every year. But now, as a generation of home schoolers comes of age and pursues higher education in the nation's colleges and universities, many home school graduates are facing difficulties gaining entrance.

Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow

On Monday, April 7th, The Boston Herald featured an article by Michael Graham about school teachers in Massachusetts who have failed an eighth to tenth grade level test numerous times and are allowed to remain as teachers in the public schools soon to be backed by the Massachusetts Democrats in Senate who unanimously voted for a waiver program for teachers who fail the test at least three times. Like swinging a dead rat in a marketplace everyone who sees this is horrified. Of course, this is the reaction the Democrats in Massachusetts and The Boston Herald, and most likely Graham are looking for and they’re getting it as thousands of American families are up in arms concerned for the education of their children. Why would the Massachusetts Senate vote to give them a waiver for failing three times? Why bother trying to pass at all if by failing they achieve easy success? Who would not agree with this logical fallacy? This is the very reason we need to look for something more beneath the obvious emotionally charged surface.

by Heidi Cappadona

MY LAST column demonstrated the harm suffered by black students that results from law school race-based admission policies.

Rising food prices have forced school cafeterias to tighten their belts and cut back on what they feed kids who have overdue lunch bills.

With the new school year just beginning, it may be useful to examine a myriad of educational problems along with some rather simple solutions. The education establishment, especially the National Education Association (NEA), wants kindergarten to begin at an ever earlier age. This is because they know a child’s values are shaped during the earliest years of life, and they believe parents often instill “improper” (biblical or traditional) values in their children. They will also inform a parent that the professional teacher knows best how to teach students, thus NEA’s opposition to homeschooling.

By Dr. Dennis Cuddy

One of parents’ most important duties is to protect their children from harmful sexual values and behaviors. Yet many public schools force potentially harmful, sometimes shockingly explicit sex education on their students. Most of the time, parents have no control over the content of these classes. Occasionally, a group of parents finds out about a particularly obnoxious sex education class and protests to the principal or local school board. The class may be dropped, only to be replaced by another class that teaches equally objectionable material, again without parent’s consent. School authorities’ attitude towards parents on this issue shows their anti-parent bias, and their contempt for parent’s rights to control the values their children are taught.

By Joel Turtel

In our last blog post, we outline specific policies and investments in Barack Obama's comprehensive education plan-including from a significant education policy announcement and speech that Obama is making ...

As the new school year begins, some kids will be leaving class with more than just books and homework assignments.

Submitted by Brad Gandolfo on 9 September 2008 - 3:42pm. Gubernatorial candidates take on education The governor's race between Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory and Lieutenant Governor Bev Perdue has been heated, ...

More students met or exceeded expectations on the state's final Palmetto Achievement Challenge Tests, a boost that comes just before a new type of standardized test is rolled out in classrooms this year.

The publisher of the graduate business school entrance test said Wednesday it has thrown out the scores of 84 prospective students after shutting down a Web site they used to cheat on the exam.

The return of students to the classroom raises the question of whether homework is an effective educational tool, or an unnecessary stressor and burden on students.

A recent move by the French education minister to make English language education more widespread and accessible than ever could mark the end of one of the final obstacles to the language's global dominance.

Barack Obama is promising to double funding for charter schools and replace inferior teachers, embracing education reform proposals normally more popular with Republican candidates.

The Democratic presidential nominee says both parties must work together to improve education, according to remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday at a suburban high school gymnasium. The pitch was an appeal to moderate voters in this presidential election swing state, where the fight over education reform has been the focus of a longtime partisan battle.

Men whose serum calcium levels fall within the high end of the normal range are three times more likely to develop fatal prostate cancer, a new report shows.