College Prep

A high school senior whose microphone was turned off after she began speaking about the importance of religion in her life during her valedictory address will have her day in court, ruled a federal judge in response to oral arguments by attorneys for The Rutherford Institute.

Public school parents might be less than assured when they hear about the clarity with which the federal government defines safety under the No Child Left Behind law.

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) recently asked strategically located scholars to assess No Child Left Behind in California, New Jersey, and Colorado.

There is a growing movement to ban cupcakes in schools as a way of promoting good nutrition and fighting childhood obesity.

Public school officials are spending more time fighting the symbols of Christmas than they ever have actually observing the holiday.

North Carolina’s public school problems may not be as local as you think.

On December 1, a federal audit of California’s classification system for migrant students revealed that 74 percent of those identified as migrants were actually stationary, and hence did not qualify for special federal funding.

Talk of high property taxes and fraud in the administration probably cause you to think of issues on Capitol Hill. Well, not in this case. These are two major problems facing suburban school systems nationwide.

ACLU types in public schools must have run out of eathly targets. Now they have their sights on Santa.

Massachusetts and California have scrapped their bilingual education programs while in the state that President Bush governed not so long ago school officials cling tenaciously to their two-languages-for-the-price-of-one policy.

Could the progress in No Child Left Behind come from private tutors? Why not cut out the middleman?

Statistics show that one student drops out of high school every 9 seconds, according to the Pew Partnership for Civic Change.