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 ...

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 ...

It seems that principals in New York City will get to be evaluated by the teachers.  The article on nytimes.com might make some teachers wonder if it's too good to be true. Pressing the case for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's latest round of changes to the city school system, Chancellor Joel I. Klein yesterday detailed how the new ...

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 ...

Gang related fighting broke out in prestigious Winston Churchill High School in Potomac.  On washingtonpost.com an article titled ''Brawl Prompts Restrictions'', school authorities have decided to ban certain types of clothing and items associated with gangs.  The ban would include bandannas, hoods, skullcaps, and ...

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 ...

More than 6,000 students in Washington's Maryland suburbs  returned to school after the holidays only to realize that people were actually serious about a couple of required immunizations.  Surprise!  According to washingtonpost.com students had until January 1st to get vaccinated. Students in grades 6 through 9 who had not ...

A principal in McKinney, Texas, has been accused of showing favoritism to her daughter, who just happens to be a cheerleader at the same school.  As noted on dallasmorningnews.com  McKinney North Principal Linda Theret, who is on leave with pay, is accused of intervening over discipline. Among other things, ...