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It’s hard to read this as anything other than a sad state of affairs for education in America. The City College of San Francisco is offering to sell sponsorships of cancelled classes for $6,000.

The SAT test holds its own against the ACT with the highest number of students ever taking the test; the scores, on the other hand, were nothing to brag about.

The latest ACT test scores were just revealed and for the most part, the scores show students did about the same as last year. Unfortunately, that’s not very good, especially in the sciences and math.

If your child’s school is at the forefront of new technology, you have — or soon will — see a smart board in the classroom. These large screens can replace the traditional chalk board with a computer controlled display that is interactive. Teachers can display lessons they created on a PC. And students can touch [...]

Until recently, new ebook initiatives have been focused on popular reading material. Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s eReader are used mainly for reading best sellers and other popular books. Now, the spotlight is starting to focus on digital textbooks. One reason is an initiative from CK-12 Foundation, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to jump starting [...]

Children with disabilities are more likely to receive corporal punishment than the general school population, according to a new study. The report from the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch found that students with disabilities made up 18.8 percent of students who suffered corporal punishment at school during the 2006-2007 school year, although [...]

For many years, the California public university system has been at the top-tier of public universities. With first-rate programs and tuitions that were lower than public colleges, even for out-of-state residents, the system has attracted the best and the brightest from around the world. That may be changing. Budget cuts are forcing reductions in class [...]

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced that the second round of stimulus funding for Title I, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and the Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) program, totaling $11.37 billion, will be on its way to schools by Sept. 1. This schedule is about a month earlier than expected. The first half was [...]

After a pilot program found an alarming rate of STD (sexually transmitted disease) infection, officials in the Washington D.C. school system have decided to bring testing to all high schools in the upcoming school year. Students will be brought to a mandatory 45-minute lecture and then given the option of providing urine samples for the [...]

Physical education is supposed to help kids get in shape, but a new study has found the number of injuries in gym class is on the rise. The study found that injuries increased by 150 percent — from 24,000 in 1997 to 64,000 in 2007. The report was published in the medical journal Pediatrics and [...]

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