Fox News is reporting that a Washington state court recently ruled that teachers can not be prosecuted for sleeping with their 18-year-old students. Default response:…
This Los Angeles Times column on student journalism is worth checking out. Most notable is a new state law that “prohibits administrators from retaliating against…
Perhaps you remember the imbroglio last summer over all of those pregnant high-schoolers in Gloucester, Mass.? The principal went to the media about a pact…
In Texas, a high school student and her father are trying to get her school to ban Fahrenheit 451. Because the Bible is burned in…
One of the more stark–and depressing–facts about American public schools is that schools where more than 40 percent of the students come from low-income families…
There’s an article in The New York Times today that bemoans the loss of sports in many K-12 public school districts. Schools are trying very…
The Gloucester Baby Pact continues to make news despite the revelation that the pact may never have even existed.
The latest bunch of crazy comes…
From today’s Boston Globe:
Sixteen was a long year for Alex Quince.
A quiet teenager making A’s and B’s, he ran away from home, dropped…
The economically depressed town of Gloucester, Massachusetts has been getting quite a bit of unwanted attention since Time reported last Wednesday that at least eight…
One morning last month, students at El Camino High School in Oceanside, California were told by administrators that several of their classmates had been killed…
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