A couple of decades of boosting children's self-es...  ...feres with significant learning opportunities. As schools ratchet up academic standards for all students, n...  ....” Dweck’s studies, embraced in Montgomery schools and elsewhere, have found that praising children...

Gone are the days of a raised and hand and simple...  ...a legitimate concern, and one that Washington Co. Schools Superintendent Sandra Cook is quick to dismiss: T...  ...n learn"? And what does it say about the district schools ? As Micheal Trei at DViCE comments, "it seems lik...  ...ttendance by Scanning Stu...

I'm sure we can all agree that it's important...  ...inly a line between safety and stupidity and many schools these days have jumped right over that border. Cr...  ...racked ha a great list of the most idiotic things schools are doing in the name of safety, including making...

Plenty of schools hire celebrities to speak at their commencement c...

Just this week, the school my children attend got...  ...witching to tap water could be a bad idea in some schools where the risk of lead contamination from old pip...  ...investigation showing that the drinking water in schools in 27 states is contaminated with lead and other...

The Boston Latin School, a private prep school, issued a press release in the hopes of quashing rumors that the school is infested with vampires: "The headmaster believes that the outrageous rumors had reached a point w...

McSweeney's has a fantastic compilation of childrens' letters to Obama. Some of them are so adorably fantastic. It seems to be kids between 5 and 12 mostly. Even if you don't like Obama, you still can appreciate the inno...