Friday morning saw a walkout by students at high schools across South Florida in mass protest about the lack of an arrest in the case of Trayvon Martin’s shooting. At nine a.m. on Friday children could be seen pouring out of school buildings and a spokesman for Broward County Public Schools, Nadine Drew, said that the protests were organized withRead more

New York City is home to an experimental curriculum which emphasizes the use of nonfiction material to help children develop the base knowledge required to understand complex texts and ideas in scientific and historical tomes. The Core Knowledge Reading Method has shown promising results in initial tests: Children at 10 schools who were taught reading using a curriculum designed byRead more

New security requirements for college entrance exam takers in Nassau County, N.Y., following a cheating scandal will be applied nationally, an official said. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen M. Rice announced restrictions Tuesday that will require students to upload photos when they register to take the SAT and ACT exams, and then present a matching photo ID when they arriveRead more

Corporations are stepping in to help solve the current education crisis before they’re left with nobody suitable to hire. A quarter of our children drop out of high school every year. Two-fifths of those who do graduate leave high school unprepared for college or career, while 57% (PDF) lack comprehension of even remedial math. Apparently the national disinterest in STEMRead more

The Cleveland Teachers Union has made a counter proposal to Mayor Frank Jackson’s schools plan. The three pages of amendments offer concessions in seniority rules but refuse to simply throw out the existing contract between CTU and the district. CTU President David Quolke describes the counter offer as an incredible compromise. Quolke said he also believes CTU’s ideas offer solutionsRead more

Maine is another step closer to setting up a uniform system for teacher evaluation in public schools after the Legislature’s Education Committee unanimously approved an amended version of bill LD 1858. The bill is part of the comprehensive suite of education measures introduced by Eductaion Commissioner Stephen Bowen and Governor Paul LePage. LD 1858 creates an “effectiveness rating” system forRead more

Li, who works at a State-owned company, is paying 100,000 yuan (15,870 U.S. dollars) for her 3-year-old son Jiabao to go to kindergarten this year. "I don't mind how much I spend on my child's education, as long as the kindergarten proves a good one for my kid's growth," said Li, who did not wish to give her full name.Read more

A study by the Association of School and College Leaders claims that 37% of the UK’s head teachers were planning to resign as a result of education reform within the country with an additional 54% still considering their position. This is the latest escalation in an ongoing row between teaching unions and the Government in recent years. Unions have alreadyRead more

Is building a replica of an Oxford tutor’s room really the best way to prepare state school pupils for the rigours of an Oxbridge interview? BSix, Brooke House Sixth Form College in Hackney, east London, believes so, and has spent £10,000 on just such a facility, which has fuddy-duddy furnishings and an adjacent garden with replica classical sculptures. “The RedRead more

India's Sachin S. Kukke is the Asia-Pacific region winner and one of the six global winners of the YouTube Space Lab 2012 contest for young people to design experiments that could be performed in outer space. The winners of the contest by YouTube and Lenovo, in co-operation with Space Adventures, Nasa, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace ExplorationRead more