A grand jury indicted a former coach and teacher in South Carolina on 22 counts of molesting and showing pornographic material to 15 boys, legal officials said. Prosecutor Scarlett Wilson said Louis "Skip" ReVille likely will face even more indictments next month for another seven victims, The (Charleston) Post and Courier reported Wednesday. Wilson also said The Citadel wouldn't faceRead more

A Florida reading teacher was suspended for allegedly calling a Haitian student a "little chocolate boy" and a "chocolate that nobody wanted," officials said. Leslie Rainer, 46, who works at Blanche Ely High in Pompano Beach, Fla, was suspended for 10 days without pay by the Broward County School Board, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Wednesday. Rainer denied making theRead more

The parents of a hearing-impaired Chicago high school student expelled for not listening to her teachers filed a lawsuit against the school, court records say. Aamed Pryor and Niya Jackson charge the staff at St. Scholastica High School was well aware their daughter had a hearing problem when she enrolled as a freshman in 2008, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.Read more

A Florida reading teacher was suspended for allegedly calling a Haitian student a "little chocolate boy" and a "chocolate that nobody wanted," officials said. Leslie Rainer, 46, who works at Blanche Ely High in Pompano Beach, Fla, was suspended for 10 days without pay by the Broward County School Board, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Wednesday. Rainer denied making theRead more

Chris Whittle, CEO of Avenues: The World School, has been honored with the Education Industry Association (EIA) Friend of the Education Industry award. The award was presented to Whittle by Michael R. Sandler, president and CEO of Education Industry Group and author of Social Entrepreneurship in Education: Private Ventures for the Public Good. He said: “If ‘education entrepreneur’ had itsRead more

Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has attacked or destroyed elementary schools as part of its guerrilla campaign, said Human Rights Watch "Boko Haram's attacks on schools represent a new and reprehensible development since the group began its campaign of violence in 2009," Zama Coursen-Neff, deputy children's rights director at Human Rights Watch, said from Nairobi. "Children and educational institutions shouldRead more

A new report by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice has revealed that American public schools are not damaged by school choice programs, citing that their costs are flexible and can change with student enrollment. The report – The Fiscal Effects of School Choice Programs on Public School Districts – found that 36 percent of public school expenses are “fixed”Read more

The parents of a hearing-impaired Chicago high school student expelled for not listening to her teachers filed a lawsuit against the school, court records say. Aamed Pryor and Niya Jackson charge the staff at St. Scholastica High School was well aware their daughter had a hearing problem when she enrolled as a freshman in 2008, the Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday.Read more

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spoken out about the new teacher evaluation laws proposed by Governor Cuomo, saying that parents have a right to know their results. In response to the proposal by New York State Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch to change state law to prevent the public release of teacher evaluations in the future, Mayor BloombergRead more

Saudi Arabia's education system came under a critical spotlight at the opening session of day two of the Jeddah Economic Forum on Monday. The panellists in a lively and at times outspoken analysis of the structure and output of the system both criticised it for teaching theoretical and impractical skills that had little relevance to the real-world jobs market andRead more