At 14, Shawn Turner-McGee is a convicted felon, arrested last spring for pushing his teacher and grabbing her arms. He said it was a misunderstanding, one that he wrote a written apology for and served probation. Last month, Greco Middle School officials suspended the seventh... Read more...
Minority students will likely outnumber white students in the next decade or two, but the failure of the national teacher demographic to keep up with that trend is hurting minority students who tend to benefit from teachers with similar backgrounds. Minority students make up more than 40 percen... Read more...
There is a well-established correlation between years of schooling and labor market success. However, it stands to reason that it is not just years of education that affect future earnings. The curriculum-the kinds of courses a student takes-certainly must have an effect. For example, it seems rea... Read more...
At 2 a.m. Sunday morning, we finally recaptured that lost hour of sleep from last March as we marked the end of daylight saving time. And for the 47 million Americans who are sleep deprived, that extra hour is a chance to literally make up for lost time. "This is one of those weekends we should r... Read more...
The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has opened an investigation into Google’s practice of saving about $1 billion a year in federal income tax by funneling profits from its US and European business units into countries with lower tax rates, Bloomberg is reporting. The techniques Go... Read more...
One of the school districts with over 75 percent of its African-American student body graduating is located on the West Coast. Out of 271 African-American students who attended Berkeley High School, 205 graduated last year. That's one of the highest African-American graduation rates in the count... Read more...
A Chicago mother recently filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Board of Education alleging a Chicago Public School security guard handcuffed her young son while he was a student at George Washington Carver Primary School on the city's far south side. In the lawsuit, filed Aug. 29 LaShanda Smith says ... Read more...
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Children in Haiti are being sold for as little as 76 pence each (pennies) by traffickers taking advantage of the chaos from last year's earthquake, new figures from Unicef show. Some youngsters are ending up in the care of well meaning but ignorant European families, while others are being forced... Read more...