High school students Aszurtoine Gunter-Fields and Terrell Ford built a bridge that just wouldn't break.


United States - Education - Colleges and Universities - Business - University of Illinois

Mr. Alexander, a former president of Pomona College who changed the face of that campus and its student body, also pressed the Rhodes Trust to grant scholarships to women.

For some children, vacation season is a time to be hip and “aspirational.”

Two alliterative reminders for the NYT Summer Reading Student Challenge: one post per person, and please post in the proper place.

A lack of specialist medics to care for rape victims could be hampering conviction rates, doctors believe.

Coping after operation to combat cancer threat

The Indiana Department of Education lists available teaching and administrative positions at the following web address: www.doe.in.gov/jobbank Visitors can search for open positions and obtain the necessary information to submit an application. Please Note: Schools and school corporations may post jobs to the job bank. However, the appropriate designee must request an account at the following web address: www.doe.in.gov/peer/stop.html

This is a second notice about electronic submission of the school health report, vision screening report and hearing screening report.

In response to numerous questions from the field, the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) compiled this document on transfer tuition.

During the 2010 Second Regular Session of the 116th Indiana General Assembly, House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1193 was passed. HEA 1193 was placed, in part, into code as IC 20-34-6 Student Safety Reporting. IC 20-34-6-1 requires school corporations to report student arrest data to the Indiana Department of Education. The application can be found here https://dc.doe.state.in.us/DOEOnline/Main.aspx?pageid=264.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools recently announced an opportunity for State Education Agencies to apply for funding to address the needs of high schools as it relates to a safe and supportive school climate.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett invites Indiana’s educators to join him for the first “Superintendent’s Season Opener: News You Can Use for the 2010-11 School Year” being held in communities across the state. Dr. Bennett and a team of representatives from the Indiana Department of Education will be available during these two-hour sessions to discuss and answer questions regarding Indiana’s Growth Model, Common Core Standards, A-F School Grading, Teacher Evaluations, Reading Framework, Curriculum Mapping, and Rules for Educator Preparation and Accountability (REPA).

For school improvement efforts to succeed, write University of Chicago researchers Lisa Walker and Cheryl Smithgall, support systems for students must move from the policy margins to the mainstream.

A new study finds that babies raised by working mothers don't necessarily suffer cognitive setbacks, an encouraging finding that follows a raft of previous reports suggesting that women with infants were wiser to stay home.


Parenting - Family - Home - Mothers - Psychology

This week we're providing math problems based on Times articles. Today: e-book sales and percentages.

This is our ninth "favorite" in our Summer Reading Student Challenge.

A former teacher from a youth detention facility discusses the specialized, highly-individualized instruction that his once-troubled students needed in order to succeed.

In their defense, educators say more federal guidance is needed on how to apply civil rights laws to programs for English-language learners.

The Detroit school board dodged a challenge to its existence Thursday when the City Council voted against placing a question on the Nov. 2 ballot asking voters whether they wanted the mayor and the council to have authority over the troubled Detroit Public Schools.

Although a national proponent of the "controlled choice" assignment model considers diversity a key to success, Wake County's school board chairman said Wednesday that race or income will not decide which schools students attend.