PRIDE & PBIS at Dunbar in Lexington, Ky.
The school environment should be safe and it should promote learning. Here's how one school in Ky. works to make that happen.
News & Issues
School bomb threat stopped in Thurmont, Md.
A student at Catoctin HS in Thurmont, Md., has been charged in connection with a plot to kill herself and others at the school.
Obituary: Markel Scott; homicide in Baltimore
Markel "Kel" Scott was shot dead in a rough Baltimore neighborhood, the 4th homicide victim this school year at Excel Academy on the West Side.
Reducing sexual harassment in middle school
Many middle schoolers are bullied, and if bullying is also sexual harassment, it can be hard to overcome, esp. for girls.
Tenn. teen missing with her teacher
AMBER Alert: From Tennessee, a high school freshman may have run away with her armed teacher, who allegedly kissed her at school.
2nd private school to close in Frederick this year
Another private Christian school will close this year in the town of Frederick in Central Maryland. The school says enrollment is too low to continue.
Students share thoughts on opiate addiction
What do high school students think about the nationwide heroin problem, which often starts for them with prescription painkillers?
Convincing kids to choose salad in the lunch line
New research suggests that exposing kids to appropriate marketing can lead more of them to choose healthy options in the lunch line.
Obituary: Tiffany & Brittany Coffland; shot by father
16-year-old twin sisters were shot to death by their father in St Charles, IL, and he then turned the gun on himself.
Storm that brought 5.2″ to Moline now a nor’easter
A winter storm tracked through the Midwest and joined a low-pressure zone from off Florida to become a classic late-winter nor'easter.