Education

K–12 public schools must ensure that Kindles and electronic books are accessible to all students—including the vision impaired, according to a recent letter from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). In a joint June 29 More...

SLJ talks to Rick Riordan about his latest bestseller 'The Red Pyramid,' book one of the Kane Chronicles. More...

Dear Cushing Academy Parents:Soon, your child will have access to one of the most innovative secondary school libraries in the country. Over half-a-million dollars are being invested to transform your library into an interactive learning More...

Arne Duncan, the man President-elect Barack Obama has tapped as secretary of education, spent the last seven years as CEO of Chicago Public Schools-and during that time he's shown solid support for school libraries.Chicago Schools More...

Who has time to write letters anymore when emailing and text messaging are such a huge part of kids lives? That's why Letters from the White House, a national creative writing contest, is encouraging Pre-K More...

Chances are you won't see Click, Clack, Moo (S & S, 2000), The Tale of Despereaux (Candlewick, 2003), and Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Abrams, 2007) in the White House library. But if students at More...

If your students had one burning question to ask President-elect Barack Obama, what would it be?ePals.com, an educational social networking site, is offering K–12 students across the nation a chance to get that message across More...

It may be too soon to know how high libraries will fare on President-elect Barack Obama's agenda, but it's safe to say that the profession has a special place in the heart of the next More...

While most people will be glued to their TVs and computers following today's election coverage, you and your students may want to check out the reporting of a lesser known media group-the eight-member Scholastic News More...

While most people will be glued to their TVs and computers following today's election coverage, you and your students may want to check out the reporting of a lesser-known media group-the eight-member Scholastic News Kids More...

Care to check out a Buddhist, a celebrity publicist, or a nudist? Patrons of the Santa Monica Public Library (SMPL) had the chance to do just that as part of the Living Library, an innovative More...

Los Angeles Public Library's (LAPL) Student Smart program, which helps middle and high school students improve study skills and SAT scores, is expanding system-wide.With support from the Princeton Review, LAPL will grow the free program More...

Kids who have at least one hour or more of physical activity a day gain substantial health benefits, says the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.In its first-ever Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, the More...

There's another election coming up-and this one involves a fellow librarian.Yohannes Gebregeorgis CNN is asking viewers to help select its hero of the year, and one of its 10 nominees includes Yohannes Gebregeorgis, an Ethiopian More...

There's a new subject being taught this fall in Rhode Island middle and high school health classes: dating violence. The state legislature and the governor have approved the Lindsay Ann Burke Act in an effort More...

More than 2,000 NYC kids will take part in this year's Days of Taste program. Celebrity Chef Bill Telepan takes on more than 2,000 New York City public school kids this month as part of More...

Despite a grim new assessment that the federal government's Reading First program hasn't had an impact on reading comprehension in low-income childen, an International Reading Association (IRA) official advises not giving up on the initiative."We More...

High school seniors answering questions on a national survey testing their knowledge of personal finance and economics scored a dismal 48.3 percent, according to a recent report by the Federal Reserve. That score lagged behind More...

Low-income kids from Washington no longer have to worry about who's paying for college-as long as they keep up their high school grades and stay out of trouble with the law.State legislators recently passed a More...

The likelihood that a teen living in one of America's largest cities will graduate high school essentially amounts to a coin toss, with about a 50-50 chance, says a new study.Only about 52 percent of More...

Many high school students in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) who aspire to attend four-year colleges short-change themselves by attending vocational schools and junior colleges because of a lack of administrative support, says a new More...

When it comes to mathematics, American students don't come close to the level of achievement reached by their peers around the world, says a report by the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, which was presented last More...

South Dakota has joined the ranks of those who pay students cash incentives. But this particular program requires teens to pass advanced placement exams in science, math, and English-and they must take the class online More...

Here's a contest you wouldn't want to win. A group called the Center for Union Facts, which bills itself as the nemesis of teachers' unions, has launched a $1 million campaign to identify the nation's More...

Do smaller classes affect student achievement? Not necessarily, says a new study from Northwestern University, which suggests that high achievers benefit more from small classes than low achievers do, especially at the kindergarten and first More...

"Parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children," a California appellate judge has ruled, stating specifically that parents without teaching credentials may not educate kids at home. The ruling is sending shock More...

A whopping 95 percent of high school students say they've cheated during the course of their education, ranging from letting somebody copy their homework to test-cheating, a Rutgers University professor reports. "There's a fair amount More...

One in five teens have no idea who America's enemy was in World War II, and more than a quarter believe that Columbus embarked on his journey of discovery after 1750. Meanwhile, half don't know More...

Don't assume that your underachieving students aren't bright. They may just have poor working memory, say researchers who have produced a tool to assess kids' memory capacity in the classroom. Durham University researchers in the More...

Don't expect to see Dick and Jane sitting in the same class if they're attending Georgia's Greene County school district. In a unanimous vote, the school board recently approved a plan to separate all classes More...

Are teachers spending less time on science and social studies to focus on their students' reading and math scores? You bet, says a new report that analyzes how much other subjects are suffering as a More...

Does teacher absenteeism have a direct impact on student achievement? You bet, say Harvard researchers Raegen Miller, Richard Murnane, and John Willett, who are examining the effect of teacher absences on fourth-grade test scores in More...

Once the Donnell Library Center of the New York Public Library closes in May, willpeople still have one-stop access to all the wonderful resources in the Central Children's Room and Teen Central? And what's going More...

The Chicago Public Schools system has a creative recipe for tackling dropouts-with food. A new school in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood will teach at-risk 11th and 12th graders to become chefs or hotel and restaurant More...

Ten more schools in Massachusetts will extend their days this fall, practically doubling the number of schools statewide that have done so to improve academic performance.The move, which will affect more than 10,000 students, is More...

Ten Texas school districts will pilot a "dual language" program to determine whether bilingual instruction in K–12 classrooms can help boost literacy and graduation rates for English-speaking and non-English-speaking students.Under legislation signed into law by More...

You may start hearing Michigan teens saying "Ni Hao Ma?" instead of "How are you?" in the coming years. That's because every high school in the state is now eligible for free Chinese language and More...

Don't be fooled. Although high school students are taking more challenging courses and earning higher grades, their reading and math scores haven't improved, according to two recent federal reports.The conflicting picture of educational achievement was More...

Also in this article:They're Great, TooAcademics aren't normally called upon to hide what they do. Yet Carol Gordon can cite a case in point: action research. 'Action research is catching on, but it's not a More...

Ten more schools in Massachusetts will extend their days this fall, practically doubling the number of schools statewide that have taken this route to improve academic performance.In all, 10,000 students in 19 schools-including seven elementary More...

Also in this article:Why is that a bad thing?Recommended ReadingHave you ever attended a Pentecostal service? I have… just once. I found it absolutely terrifying. People standing, waving their arms in the air, shouting unintelligible More...

I don’t know about your students, but most of mine aren’t wild about reading. I teach at a middle school in a lower socioeconomic area of Tucson, AZ, where I work primarily with fifth-, sixth-, More...