N.J. to require PARCC for graduation
The Garden State will begin requiring students to pass the PARCC tests or some other test (or submit a portfolio) for high school graduation in 2021.
‘The Electromagnetic Spectrum Song’ rides a wave
Few songs that describe the gamut of the electromagnetic spectrum can compare to Emerson & Woo's one, with 1.7 million views.
Students devise a tracheotomy device for soldiers
A team of students at Johns Hopkins invented a device that could make cricothyrotomies more successful on the battlefield and in civilian life.
Transgender bathroom access on hold legally
The US Supreme Court issued a stay, temporarily blocking enforcement of guidance from the Obama administration on transgender bathroom access.
New contact rules reduce football head impacts
Football players sustain fewer impacts to the head following a policy change that aims to reduce full-contact practices (U.Mich.).
Zombie bacteria detected in Siberia
Anthrax bacteria have surfaced as the permafrost in Siberia melts during the latest heat wave hitting across the Northern Hemisphere.
Metea Valley musical is crazy good, crazy political
A musical at a suburban Chicago high school foreshadowed, in a crazy, creepy, kooky way, the Republican Party's nominee for president.
Md. family must pay $540K; enrolled kids in D.C.
Faking your residency in order to enroll in a desirable school is fraud, plain and simple. Yet people risk this in certain areas.
6-year-old handcuffed; took candy from a teacher
A 6-year-old Chicago Public Schools elementary student was handcuffed for taking candy off her teacher's desk. Mom said she'd sue.
A gifted student was held back in Montgomery Co.
Why can't gifted and talented students learn at their level, rather than the level our paternalistic public school officials want to hold them at?