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Too many people walking around with guns at public events or inside schools is unnerving. Highly-trained police officers make sense and are accustomed to seeing and knowing students.
Controlled door access, visitor screening and mass notification systems are the most common measures used in Ohio schools to protect kids and teachers, according to a new statewide survey sent to 5,620 buildings.
A new study suggests living in a high-crime area, or simply passing through one on the way to school, can impact how often students show up to class.
An increasing number of educators use similar augmented and virtual reality experiences to teach scientific concepts, as online and digital curricula continue to guide classroom instruction. Still, many teachers rely on hands-on activities and lab kits.
From the protests in Ferguson to Colin Kaepernick, high profile events and individuals have helped enlighten the public to the ways in which systematic racial inequities continue to impact our society today.
The Education Department’s Federal Student Aid office has failed to keep watch over the contractors servicing its $1.4 trillion portfolio of student loans, a lapse that may be costing taxpayers, the federal agency’s inspector general said in a scathing audit issued recently.
The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a shrunk-down education reform package Thursday, sending the bill back to the Senate and a likely conference committee to iron out differences.
The Virginia Beach school district is taking legal action against a family to get their daughter back into the public school system.
Comprehensive sex education would be mandatory for Washington state public school students under a bill introduced in the Legislature.
A floor leader for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed onto legislation that would create a direct state payment for a limited number of students to attend private school and cover schooling expenses.
K12 schools in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia select new products and services to boost student learning, maximize efficiency and increase safety.
A new battle is shaping up in the long-running fight between North Carolina’s public schools and the tourism industry over who should be responsible for determining when the school year begins and ends.
A New York Supreme Court justice ruled on Friday that the Orchard Park Central School District does not have to admit two children who have not received childhood vaccines.
Susana Cordova, formerly deputy superintendent of Denver Public Schools, now leads the 92,000-student district where she has spent her entire career.
Finland’s education system caters to working families and receives plenty of funding, with more than 55 percent in federal dollars. Free meals, health care and outside-of-class child care are available to all students, who start formal schooling at age 7.
K12 schools in New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Washington, Texas, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma select new products and services for PD, online learning, assessments and cultural programs.
In January, Assistant Wisconsin State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor began serving as the state’s top education official after her predecessor, Tony Evers, was sworn in as governor.
One of the oldest districts in the nation recently completed its first construction project in 15 years by rebuilding a school to accommodate STEM learning for grades 6 through 12.
Cathy Cavanaugh, who will speak at FETC 2019 this January, recently discussed how the classroom-centered individual student use of technology is shifting toward a greater emphasis on organizations.
Educators in the second-largest school district in the nation say they’re making a last stand against more than two generations of state defunding of public schools, understaffing of nurses and janitors and an onslaught of what they call the privatization of public education — charter schools.
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