Students of economic history know that public goods create ties that bind citizens to each other and to the broader society. This is even more essential than the goods and services produced.
SAN FRANCISCO — It's not hard to figure out that stocking school vending machines with sugary sodas and salty, fatty snacks is a bad idea. Repla...
CHICAGO — Giving teens 30 extra minutes to start their school day leads to more alertness in class, better moods, less tardiness, and even healt...
Angela Sanchez, who is finishing her freshman year at UCLA, knows all about education and even more about homelessness.
The iron age practice of "corporal punishment" is still legal in 20 states and there are no federal laws prohibiting it.
As the economy continues in a tailspin and state and municipal budget cuts loom, small groups are mushrooming, organizing, and fighting back.
If Britain were a bit more like Sweden, said a Tory minister last week, "I, for one, would not object". Well, nor would I. Sweden has one of the smallest gaps between rich and poor in the world.
While American students might be "underworked," American school teachers most certainly are not -- particularly for what they are being paid.
National restaurant chain Chipotle has launched a campaign to help children across the nation get healthy school lunches. Chipotle is asking the publi...
On June 29, 2010, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) introduced the "Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act," H.R. 5628. This bill would ban...
Here's some research news that's bound to make the first lady and lots of other parents take note: Schools have more power to influence over kids' eat...
I find the answers that have been given concerning the education system are unsatisfactory. The answers just don't match the realities faced by more than 40 million students between kindergarten and the end of high school.
Davis Guggenheim's new film, Waiting For Superman, is both a searing indictment of our education system and a desperate call-to-action to save our struggling schools.
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Students who wished their school librarians a nice summer on the last day of school may be surprised this fall when they're no...
"I really believe in the need for real change in the education system," said John Legend. Anyone who is a fan of Legend knows what a heartfelt guy he is.
On June 15, 2010, on this very site, Mayor Villaraigosa called upon the Board of Education, the ACLU, Public Counsel, the State Board of Education an...
Between metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs in the hallways and surveillance cameras in the classrooms and elsewhere, America's schools have come to resemble prison-like complexes.
We judge a school's or a program's or a teacher's efforts based on a single, easily quantifiable measure: basic-skills test scores in reading and math.
The Catholic school system is an alternative to the public school system. It is marketed as being superior to the public school system because of the "values" that are taught.
Charter schools-- privately operated, publicly funded schools -- do not automatically confer superiority over traditional public schools.
As we confront the challenges of a new economic order, we must move past 20th century reform roadblocks to ensure a prosperous 21st century future for our children.
Scientific organizations for years have raised the alarm over the appallingly low level of scientific literacy in the United States, but efforts to correct the situation have achieved only minimal success.
Senate Bill 6 continues down a mistaken path by holding teachers virtually solely responsible for student performance.
More than 150 Colorado school districts are scrambling to fill a massive documents request from the state attorney general in connection with a lawsui...
A Wisconsin district attorney is urging schools to drop their sex-education programs, warning that the teachers involved could be arrested if they fol...
