School News

The US Congress now has three bills to consider that reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and tweak some of the changes introduced by No Child Left Behind.

Almost every state has enacted laws designed to prevent bullying, and more lawsuits have been filed, charging school districts with negligence in protecting students under those laws.

A bill introduced in the Senate Education Committee today would try to rewrite No Child Left Behind, but the bill faces a challenge in both chambers, as it has very little, if any, Republican support.

A 5-year-old in Calvert County, Md., was suspended for bringing a toy cap gun onto a school bus last week, following a lengthy questioning without his parents present.

A series of town hall meetings about the 22-state assessment consortium known as PARCC will be held on Twitter, beginning with an introduction to PARCC tests on June 5.

Two slightly different plans for how to deal with student loan rates are up for consideration in Washington: the rate is likely to be tied to market factors rather than being set directly by Congress.

By spelling "tokonoma" and "knaidel," Arvind Mahankali won this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee. At his fourth appearance in the finals, he conquered "the German curse."

A new report card format, which reports student progress not against a percent-correct scale of A-E but against the performance standards in the new Common Core, has confused parents.

If team teaching is used to reduce the student:teacher ratio to a very low number, say 6:1, one nonprofit startup has a promising approach, as President Obama observed earlier this month.