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?
US teen beauty becomes standardized
The Miss Teen USA pageant showed that, sometimes, standardized qualities, like teen beauty, pay off; they don't in other cases, though.
Campus carry starts today in Texas
Campus Carry will allow college students in Texas over 21 who have concealed-carry licenses to bring those guns into certain campus buildings.
Debt-free college, a Democratic unifying principle
We wonder if debt-free college in the US is a possibility by looking at the proposal advanced by Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
They’ve had enough (online) testing in Alaska
Test results are important for schools, but technical computer problems and opt-outs continue to frustrate educators across the US.