When parents dropped off their children for the start of the new term yesterday morning, they found the city's 'school road' unusually quiet. There are 33 campuses on Khalid Bin Sultan Street, meaning the morning school run is concentrated in one place at one time for more than 32,000 students. The resulting traffic chaos has earned the street the nicknameRead more

An honest school teacher in Haryana's Sonipat town has paid with his life for refusing to let a pupil cheat in the Grade 12 board examinations, police said. The victim, Rakesh, a Hindi teacher at Ramjas School, was hit by a speeding car on Friday, driven by two youths, Vikram and Hari Om, while he was returning home from school.Read more

A 20-year-old student from another Gulf Arab country could be executed for raping a 16-year-old boy of the same nationality at knife point after drugging him at his apartment in Dubai, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The emirate’s prosecutor said he had demanded death punishment against the student for raping the boy and filming his crime in October to scareRead more

Dubai schools rated “outstanding” will be allowed to hike fee by six per cent this year, said Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), the education regulatory authority. The new school fee framework for Dubai’s private school is based on a fresh framework based on quality of education (as per Dubai Schools Inspection results) and an Educational Cost Index (ECI) calculatedRead more

Schools rated as outstanding in school inspections by Dubai’s education authority will be allowed to hike fees by 6 per cent this academic year, officials announced on Sunday. The Dubai government has given green signal to private schools to increase their fees by a minimum of three per cent to a maximum of six per cent this academic year. SchoolsRead more

US conservative Christians and science advocates are clashing again, this time in Tennessee over a bill that would allow debate in public schools over theories like evolution. Lawmakers from the southeastern US state home to a strong base of ultraconservative "Tea Party" activists have approved the bill, which now awaits the signature of Governor Bill Haslam, a Republican. The measure,Read more

The District’s Ben W. Murch Elementary School found the cash to save its guidance counselor’s job this year. McLean’s Kent Gardens Elementary shelled out for a new science curriculum. And Oak View Elementary, in Silver Spring, paid for printer cartridges and after-school buses. Where’d the money come from for all this? Parents. After years of shrinking budgets, Washington area schoolRead more

With roughly 7,000 languages being spoken around the world on a daily basis—by linguist estimations—it's no wonder that parents of ESL kids are constantly looking for new ways to supplement their kid's language lessons and find common ground with English speakers. According to the Public School Review, it's predicted that in 2020 nearly half of the students in U.S. publicRead more

It’s never too early to start thinking about college – or so it seems these days. This ideology can become a recipe for over-packed days, sleepless nights, and free-floating anxiety for both you and your ninth grader, but there are ways to gently push the ball in the right direction without overwhelming the already-stressful first year of high school. IfRead more

What was he thinking? How could she? If you find yourself wondering what your teen was thinking, the answer may be “not much.” Kids often make snap judgments based on impulse, especially when situations come up quickly, leaving teens with little time to sort through the pros and cons. Some of those hasty decisions may involve cheating in school; skippingRead more