Elementary School

Elementary School Students Ask Crayola to Recycle Markers

Joe Mirabella | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Online Campaigns, Art, Children, Recylcing, Environment, Drawing, Elementary School, Plastic, Crayola, Petitions, Markers, change.org, Video, Green News

Sun Valley Elementary school students in San Rafael, CA are urging Crayola to create a take back program for their Crayola markers.

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7-Year-Old Kicked Off School Bus, Forced To Wander Alone

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Elementary Schoolers, 7 Year Old Kicked Off School Bus, School Bus Safety, School Bus Driver, School Buses, Elementary School, School Bus, Utah Schools, Elementary School Students, School Safety, Education News

Amber Hobdy, a mother from Eagle Mountain, Utah, is outraged after her 7-year-daughter Kya was allegedly kicked off a school bus in an unfamiliar neig...

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Mom Outraged After Teacher's Aide Pulled Wrong Tooth From Son

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Teacher Pulls Tooth, Elementary Schoolers, Students With Autism, Loose Teeth, Sabrina Grant, Elementary School, Teacher Investigated, Students, Teachers Aide, Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, Education News

Sabrina Grant, mother of a fourth grade student with autism at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, is upset after her son's teacher's aide not only pull...

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School Spells Own Name Wrong For 9 Years

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Education, Video, Elementary Schoolers, School Misspellings, Elementary Schools, Elementary School, School Spells Its Name Wrong, Texas Schools, Education News

Sunrise-McMillan Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas, has made an embarrassing correction after nine years: the spelling of its name, NBC Dallas-Fo...

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Stories of Transformation: Blue (School) Skies Ahead

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Education, Sam Chaltain, No Child Left Behind, Blue Man Group, Elementary School, Education Reform, Accountability, Learning, Video, Education News

What makes the Blue School's framework exciting is its commitment to explicitly link everything it does to the latest research about how the brain works, and about how people learn.

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Digital Preservation Is Cultural Literacy

Kari Kraus | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Library of Congress, Internet Preservation, Internet, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School, Video Games, Video Game Preservation, Digital Preservation, Preservation Week, Culture News

While digital preservation might not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about K-12 curricula, teaching kids about Web archiving, digitization, and media storage can serve as a gateway to hands-on learning in science and technology.

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Teacher Accused Of Telling 2nd-Grader She Looked 'Too Sexy' For Gym

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Student Crime, Elementary Schoolers, School Clothes, New Jersey Schools, Gym Classes, Elementary School, Teacher Crime, Teacher Inappropriate Actions, Slidepollajax, Education News

Marco Inskip, a 40-year-old substitute teacher at Charles L. Spragg Elementary School in Egg Harbor City, N.J., has been accused of telling a 7-year-o...

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Ohio Boy Brings BB Gun To School To Scare Bullies

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Bb Guns, Elmwood Place Elementary School, Bb Gun Schools, Bullying, Bb Gun Ohio Elementary School, Bb Gun Ohio School, Elementary School, School Shootings, BB Gun, School Bullying, Bullys, Ohio Boy Bb Gun, Video, Education News

Earlier this week Lisa Pfalzgraf, principal of Elmwood Place Elementary School in Cincinnati, Ohio called the police on a 10-year-old boy after he bro...

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When Everyone Gets a Trophy, No One Wins

Michael Sigman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Lake Wobegon, Interest Rates, College Students, Private School Students, Inflation, Garrison Keillor, Elementary School, Huey Long, The Fed, Grade Inflation, Kindergarten, Education News

The nation has become a self-parodic reflection of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon: thanks to collusion between parents and educators, the vast majority of all private school children are virtually guaranteed to be above average.

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Parents Upset Over Offensive Class Photo

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Elementary Schoolers, School Photos, School Yearbook Photos, School Class Photos, Elementary School, Yearbook Photos, Offensive Photos, Education News

A second grader at Sawgrass Elementary School in Sunrise, Fla., who didn't have the parental consent form to be in his class photo was nevertheless in...

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Imagining the Ideal School

Evan Bailyn | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Elementary School, Education, Education Reform, Empathy, Emotional Intelligence, Kids, Charter Schools, Education News

By treating students as respected individuals rather than products in an assembly line, we could allow them to believe in themselves and value their education.

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Reasons To Be Jealous Of Your Elementary Schooler

Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Elementary Schoolers, Twitter, Elementary School, Grade School, #Elementaryschoolmemories, Parents-Kids, School Memories, School Days, Slidepollajax, Parents News

For every adorable "first grade problem," it seems there are a dozen sweet elementary school memories knocking around the Internet. Rolling backpac...

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Bullying Study Shows Some Kids At High Risk For Abuse

Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Video, Autistic Children, Asperger Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Children, Kids, Bullying, Teen, Elementary School, Bullies, Autism, Autistic, Parents, Science News

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/27/2012 01:17 PM EDT on LiveScience Kids with autism spectrum disorders are three ti...

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Bringing It Home

Harriet Sanford | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Education Budget Cuts, Low-Income Schools, Elementary School, Education Reform, School Rankings, Parenting, School Budget Cuts, Elementary School Teachers, Low-Income Students, Education News

The NEA Foundation and others are harnessing the power of parents in low-income schools through a transformative way of promoting involvement: school-sponsored home visits by teachers.

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Saying Yes to Digital Media in Preschool and Kindergarten

Lisa Guernsey | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Education Technology, Preschoolers, Child Care, Young Children, Preschool, Elementary School, Pre-Kindergarten, Ipad, Kindergarten, Education News

We need to be preparing teachers who know time-tested methods for teaching young children but who also see new technologies as a tool for sparking a love of learning.

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Janitors Suspended For Binding, Gagging Students In Bathroom

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Janitors, Elementary Schoolers, New Jersey Schools, School Crime, Students Bound and Gagged, Elementary School, School Janitors, Maintenance Workers, Elementary School Students, Video, Education News

Two janitors from Gregory Elementary School in Long Beach, NJ., have been placed on paid suspension after they allegedly bound and gagged two 10-year-...

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Years Later, Teacher Sends Hundreds Of Birthday Cards To Former Students

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Retired Teacher Birthday Cards, Video, Retired Teacher Sends Out Birthday Cards, Birthdays, Elementary School, Jessica Donald, Birthday-Cards, Teachers, Giving, Lois Hayes, Lois Hayes Birthday Cards, Good News News

Lois Hayes, 66, may have retired from her career at an elementary school, but she hasn't forgotten her former students. Every week the Lexington, ...

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3 Still In Critical Condition After Fatal New Jersey School Bus Crash

AP | BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Tezsla Zdybel, School Bus Safety, Chesterfield Elementary School, School Bus Accident, Sophie Zdybel, New Jersey Schools, School Buses, Elementary School, Jonathan Zdybel, New Jersey Bus Accident, Cooper University Hospital, Students, New Jersey School Bus Crash, Elementary School Students, School Bus Crash, Education News

CHESTERFIELD, N.J. — The National Transportation Safety Board is examining how seat belt use factored into the New Jersey school bus crash that ...

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Early Childhood Education Is Where It Starts

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Early Childhood Education, Education, News, Children, Elementary School, Primary School, Pre-School, Education News

If it's such a good idea to stay in school until the age of 18 or graduation, why have only 21 states passed this law? Because by the time a student reaches 16, it is often too late.

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Making Friends: Kids Who Are Different

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Friendship, Children's Friendships, Elementary School, Friendship Advice, Parenting, School, Friends, Parents News

Adults can help children learn the social skills they need to make friends and get along with others.

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SLIDESHOW: 27 Worst States For Science Education

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Searles | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: States, The Fordham Institute, Worst States, Science Class, Elementary School, High School, United States, Science Education, K-12 Science, Science News

"Don't know much about science" may be a good description of many students in U.S. public schools, at least if you're swayed by a new report issued by...

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WATCH: 9-Year-Old's Awesome Michael Jackson Dance Moves Gets Him Suspended

AP | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Michael Jackson, Video, Elementary Student, Michael Jackson Dance, Lenny Boberg, St. Stan's School, Lenny Boberg Michael Jackson Dance, Student Suspended, Lenny Boberg Minnesota Student, Elementary School, Minnesota School, School Fundraiser, Lenny Boberg Suspended, Catholic Schools, Pat Bowlin, Education News

WINONA, Minn. -- A Catholic school in Minnesota has suspended a 9-year-old boy for performing a crotch-grabbing Michael Jackson dance move during a fu...

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Students Playing 'Rape Tag' At School?

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Elementary Schoolers, Rape Tag, Tag Game, School Games, Playgrounds, Elementary School, Tag, Rape Tag Game, Playground Games, Video, Education News

Parents are outraged after nearly two dozen 5th graders at Washington Elementary School in New Ulm, Minn., were caught playing a game called "rape tag...

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A Preventable Tragedy: Choking to Death in the School Cafeteria

Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Cpr, Jonathan Jewth, Heimlich Maneuver, School Lunches, Elementary School, Choking Hazards, Choking, School Lunch, School Safety, Parents News

We can't prevent every conceivable tragedy that might strike our kids at school. But in the case of a choking, physically demonstrating the Heimlich maneuver to school food service workers as part of their regular training hardly seems burdensome.

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School 'Scream Rooms' Outrage Parents

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: School Discipline, Time Out at School, Elementary School, Elementary Schoolers, Scream Room, Time Outs, Scream Rooms, Time Out, Education News

Parents in Middletown, Conn., are protesting the use of what they're calling "scream rooms" by Farm Hill Elementary School as a way of disciplining mi...

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