Wyoming schools would be required to create a comprehensive safety plan and conduct nationally recognized, proactive security training under a bill advanced by a state legislative committee last week, a measure that represents lawmakers’ primary attempt to better safeguard schools from active shooters. Wyoming schools would be required to create a comprehensive safety plan and […]

A campaign to get parents talking, reading and singing to their infants and toddlers by sending the message through pediatricians is working, new report shows Nearly four years ago, a baby boy named Anselmo Santos sat in his doctor's office in Oakland, California, chewing on a cardboard children's book. The book came from a specially […]

Bay County schools in the Florida Panhandle, which was hit hard by Hurricane Michael in October, dropped its dress code because some students and staff lost their clothes were wearing donated clothing. Since students in the Florida Panhandle county hardest hit by Hurricane Michaelreturned to classrooms in early November, they’ve dealt with power outages, sporadic internet, missing friends, larger […]

In American education, 2018 has been the year of the teacher. It was this year that long-timid American teachers stood up by the tens of thousands in a handful of states to strike for better pay and for more funding for sorely under-resourced schools. So why not make this year’s Time’s Person of the Year “The American […]