Report: States team up on new academic standards

2010-03-10T00:18:20Z

<div id="subtitle">Report: Governors, state school leaders team up on new academic standards</div><div><p>Governors and state education leaders are proposing a new set of standards to define what should be taught in the nation's public schools, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.</p><p>The new benchmarks, to be announced Wednesday, are meant to replace standards that vary...

Wash. teacher killed outside school before classes

2010-02-27T03:30:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Wash. teacher killed outside elementary school before classes; deputy shoots suspect</div><div><p>The stalking began with bursts of phone calls — 10 or 15 in a day, about once a year, from an old college acquaintance. Then, flowers and unwanted visits, an anti-harassment order, an arrest — and bail.</p><p>Jennifer Paulson, a 30-year-old special education teacher at a Tacoma

Students welcome Obama statue in Jakarta school

2010-02-22T07:45:16Z

<div id="subtitle">Students at Obama's former school in Indonesia welcome arrival of disputed statue</div><div><p>Children at an Indonesian elementary school eagerly welcomed the arrival of a statue of a former student called "Little Barry" and were excited by the prospect that he might pay them a visit next month as president of the United States.</p><p>...

Teacher accused of shooting 2 principals at school

2010-02-22T10:19:07Z

<div><p>An elementary school teacher is accused of shooting and wounding the principal and assistant principal at his school Wednesday about an hour after the children were dismissed because of snow.</p><p>Police charged Mark Stephen Foster, 48, of Clinton, with two counts of attempted first-degree murder after the shooting at Inskip Elementary School. The school Web site identifie...

Farm to School program changes kids' views on food

2010-02-22T10:51:32Z

<div id="subtitle">Farm to School program plants seeds of healthy eating in kids</div><div><p>The third and fourth graders at Sharon Elementary know where the veggies in their soup come from because they've visited the farms. They know the nutritional value of the carrots, onions and cabbage because they've studied them in class, and they know how they're grown because they've nurtured them in raised beds out back.</p><...

2-inch toy gun in school means trouble for NYC boy

2010-02-22T11:38:10Z

<div id="subtitle">NYC boy, 9, sent to principal's office and threatened with suspension over 2-inch toy gun</div><div><p>A New York City fourth-grader was sent to the principal's office and nearly suspended for bringing a 2-inch toy gun to school.</p><p>Nine-year-old Patrick Timoney and a frien...

SWAT team responds to cap gun at Wash. school

2010-02-22T12:27:26Z

<div id="subtitle">Officers respond to report of shots fired at Washington elementary school; weapon was cap gun</div><div><p>The initial 911 report from the Vancouver, Wash., elementary school was alarming: shots fired at a school playground. That had police and SWAT officers scrambling Tuesday morning —...

Ariz. principal suspended over sarcastic letter

2010-02-22T12:34:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Ariz. principal suspended over letter sent home chiding parents for 'too stupid' kids</div><div><p>An Arizona school principal who penned a sarcastic letter that chided parents for children who were either "too lazy or too stupid" to complete their assignments in class was suspended after the missive was mistakenly sent home.</p><p>"The math we do i...

Girls may learn math anxiety from female teachers

2010-02-22T15:10:09Z

<div id="subtitle">Study: Female teachers with math anxiety may spread it to the little girls in their classrooms</div><div><p>Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers. Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the question of why has provoked controversy. Now, a study of first- and second-graders suggests what may be part of the answer: Female eleme...

Texas board defers vote on social studies standard

2010-02-22T21:13:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Texas board defers vote on nationally influential K-12 social studies guidelines</div><div><p>Texas' board of education has put on hold its consideration of new social studies curriculum standards that could affect students nationwide.</p><p>The State Board of Education had spent three days discussing the guidelines, debating topics from hip-hop's cultu...

DISTRICT HUNGERS TO FEED STUDENTS

2010-02-22T21:47:13Z

<div><p> The share of Clark County School District students receiving free and reduced-price meals is expected to hit 50 percent by spring, and thats thought to be an all-time high.</p><p>The numbers have climbed as the Southern Nevada economy continues its decline. As of this month, 48 percent of the districts more than 308,000 students receive breakfas...

THE EFFECT: How cutbacks might be felt in classrooms

2010-02-22T23:39:55Z

<div><p> Gov. Jim Gibbons proposed Wednesday a massive overhaul of public education in Nevada, including eliminating funding for full-day kindergarten and class-size reduction.</p><p>Gibbons said that more control over spending should rest with individual schools and that costly collective bargaining agreements with teachers unions should be sc...

Federal Building Shooting

2010-01-06T01:45:33Z

A photographer shoots the broken window from a bullet as paint where a gunman died at an elementary school across the street from a federal building in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. A gunman opened fire in the lobby of a federal building in downtown Las Vegas on Monday, killing one court officer and wounding a second before he was shot to death at the elementary school. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Children Prepare Christmas Cookies

2009-12-11T06:32:57Z

BERLIN - DECEMBER 11: Children holding a tray of sugar cookies at a kindergarten of the Rudolf Steiner Waldorfschule on December 11, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Each year Berlin's kindergarten children get into the festive spirit and prepare cookies and biscuits prior to Christmas. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/San Francisco Bay area school board will use broad lessons against bias to replace a curriculum against bullying gay people that had become a national centerpiece in the opposition to same-sex marriage.</p><p>The vote by the

APTOPIX Iraq Violence

2009-12-07T10:34:18Z

Iraqis stand near a crater caused by a bomb exploded outside a Baghdad elementary school in the Shiite enclave of Sadr city, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Iraq Violence

2009-12-07T10:33:51Z

An Iraqi woman reacts at the site of a bomb exploded outside a Baghdad elementary school in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Health Car Fairness

2009-11-23T12:31:57Z

Teacher Kinzi Blair poses in her classroom at an elementary school in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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HereÕs hope for a smarter future for Nevada

2010-02-24T10:01:50Z

<div id="subtitle">Kids today are thinking for themselves, not just parroting their parents</div><div><p> Is anyone in Nevada smarter than a fifth grader?</p><p>The Las Vegas Suns Emily Richmond did a Nevada Day story by interviewing people waiting in line at the Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a timeline through history.</p><p>Kolowith's stu...

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