A Boston Public Schools teacher had to take herself to the doctor and then the police station after a student threw "boiling hot" ramen-noodle water on her face, according to police.

Pearl-clutching parents in Ohio have forced a suburban school district outside Cincinnati to review a book so popular for its portrayal of historic events that it was adapted into a film.

By wide margins - and regardless of their political affiliation - parents express satisfaction with their children's schools and what is being taught in them.