According to a U.S. survey, three percent of American elementary schools teach Chinese language. Many of them, using materials created and sold by a Korean-American woman who realized nearly 20 years ago, that Chinese would be one of the global languages of the future. For Selina Yoon, story-time at this private school in New York City is market research. SelinaRead more

Israel's Home Front Command conducted a simultaneous earthquake exercise on Monday in schools all over the country. The drill was a joint exercise held by the Home Front Command along with the Ministry of Education, the Israel Police, Magen David Adom, the Fire and Rescue Services, as well as local authorities. All schools and kindergartens in Israel participated in theRead more

Seoul has decided to increase the number of professional counselors placed in schools across the city in a bid to prevent school violence, the city's education office said Monday. Under its new, comprehensive measures that aim to root out rampant school violence, the Seoul Metropolitan Education Office is set to raise the number of counselors in the city's elementary, middleRead more

A perceived conflict between science and religion has led Americans to rank nearly last among industrialized countries in understanding evolution, educators told a major science conference this weekend. But research suggests that education changes anti-science attitudes among even the most religious of students, while history shows that science can thrive alongside religion, said Kenneth Miller of Brown University in Providence,Read more

Malaysia is seeking the expertise of Jordanian academicians to establish the World Association of Islamic Business School, according to a senior Malaysian official. “Jordanian universities enjoy a very strong reputation and we are seeking their expertise and assistance in our plans to build the association, to be located in Malaysia,” Professor Dato Mohamed Mustafa Ishak, vice chancellor of the government-ownedRead more

A coach taking 47 British holidaymakers home after a school skiing trip rolled over into a ditch in France on Sunday, killing one passenger and injuring 24, officials said. The British Foreign Office said the dead man was a 61-year-old Briton, adding that it was “urgently investigating” the accident near Reims in northern France. One teenager was said to beRead more

Hundreds of Greek students have held a fresh demonstration outside the parliament in the capital Athens to protest against a series of recent austerity measures approved by the government. The students protested on Saturday against the spending cuts in the country's education system as well as wage and job cuts affecting their families. Hundreds of police forces tried to disperseRead more

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy said Saturday the investigation of two teachers accused of lewd acts with students is complete. In a 4-minute video address sent to all employees in the district, Deasy said the investigation at Miramonte Elementary School is complete, and the rest of the staff -- minus two teachers facing criminal charges -- willRead more

U.S. college students have a significantly higher rate of admissions for alcohol problems than their non-student counterparts, federal health officials found. A report by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found 46.6 percent of all substance abuse treatment admissions involving college or other post-secondary school students ages 18-24 were primarily related to alcohol disorders, versus 30.6 percentRead more

Asia is the center of high performance in school education, with students in Shanghai outperforming their counterparts in Australia, the United States and Europe by up to three years in mathematics, said a report released on Friday by Australia's Grattan Institute. The Grattan report, Catching up: learning from the best school systems in East Asia, revealed that although Australia andRead more