A video on the growing dilemma of how to successfully educate middle schoolers discusses doing away with middle schools altogether.  One possibility is to keep students in elementary school through the 8th grade.  Another choice is to house 6th through 12th graders ...

Now I've heard everything.  In an effort to show how sexually transmitted diseases are spread, a group doing a demonstration for students stepped into a sticky mess. It was a novel class exercise: Ask a room full of Montgomery County high school students to take turns chewing the same piece of gum. To demonstrate how ...

The superintendent for Anne Arundel is making an entire staff of a high school reapply for their jobs.  This includes teachers, administrators, custodians, and secretaries.  Get out the broom, and get ready for a clean sweep.  Annapolis High School has failed to meet No Child Left Behind guidelines for four ...

Assembly woman Sally Leiber wants to protect toddlers and babies and plans to introduce a bill to prevent spankings.  On latimes.com the Bay Area Democrat explains her reasoning in an article titled ''A spanking ban:  are we gonna get it?''  She has received a barrage of emails, some of them telling her to mind her ...

Plans are in the works for the DISD principals to become more active in the classroom according to dallasnews.com.  They are going to be doing less administrative paperwork and more time visiting classrooms, talking to teachers, and getting to know the students. Dallas schools Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has staked his job on ...

I knew it would happen.  Yet another committee has decided that teachers are the ones to blame when students don't do well.  After all, they can't do anything about the parents or living situations that some of these children might have, so according to dallasnews.com a new report stresses the improvement of ...