Tips For Talking To Your Kids About Gun Violence
Last weekend was rough, and that’s an understatement. A shooter went on a spree in El Paso and another…
Entire School Evacuated Over Pumpkin Spice Accident
It’s pumpkin spice season, which means the next few months will smell like nutmeg and cloves and cinnamon, day…
School Assignment Asks Teens to Write Their Own Suicide Notes
Today in “teachers who should not be trusted to write their own lesson plans,” a London educator is surprised…
Parents Want to Change School’s Name to Something With a Less-Embarrassing Acronym
(iStockPhoto/karalon) Deep down inside, we are all 12 years old, and that’s why a bunch of parents are petitioning…
School Assignment Tells Kids to Make Slave Auction Posters, and Some Parents Are Pissed
(Facebook/Jamil Karriem) Some New Jersey parents were outraged this week when they realized the walls of their kids’ school…
Trump Administration Removes Protections from Transgender Students
(JohnArehart/iStockPhoto) Back in May, the Department of Education and the Department of Justice under President Obama jointly issued a…
This Utah High School’s Sexist ‘Date’ Assignment Will Make You Flip a Table
(If we hold hands for three more minutes, we’ll get an A. ViewApart/iStockPhoto) If you’re looking to whip up…
Lunch Lady Quits Job When School Tells Her to Throw Poor Kids’ Lunches Away
(Via Giphy) Hunger makes it difficult to do most things. Physical activities require energy, mental activities require focus, hell,…
Georgia Parents Confuse Yoga for Anti-Christian Propaganda, Fight to Get It Out of School
School demands a lot of kids, so it’s no surprised that kids get stressed out from all the things…
This Teacher Says He Lost His Job Because a Parent Mistook His Listerine Breath for Alcohol
Steven Sloan was a popular and familiar figure at PS 102 in Harlem, where he taught gym for 29…
Alabama Will Require High School Students To Learn About Evolution And Climate Change
Alabama deserves a round of applause this week for voting to update its science curriculum and mandate that all high…
Catholic School Expels Student With Leukemia Because That’s What Jesus Would Do
If there’s anything that should be considered an ‘excused absence’ from school, it’s having a life-threatening illness, but apparently…
Finland Is Eliminating School Subjects, A Great Idea That Would Never Work In The US
Finland is a country whose name comes up often in discussions about American education reform: they continually produce top-of-the-line…
It’s Time To Change State School Systems Where Rich Kids Get More Funding Than Poor Ones
Something is rotten in the state of Pennsylvania–and 22 other states, too, where the school funding system is fundamentally…