Just a quarter of eighth and 12th grade students in the United States have solid writing skills, even when allowed to use spell-check and other computer word processing tools.
As teachers in the nation's third-largest school district strike this week, one of their biggest sticking points is how much student test scores should be tied to their own job evaluations.
An attorney for a county teacher of the year says she will plead not guilty to charges she had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old honors student.
The president of the Chicago Teachers Union says teachers and the school district are still far apart in their contract dispute and that the walkout will almost certainly extend into a third day on Wednesday.
An Associated Press analysis finds that California parents who send their children to private schools are much more likely to not immunize their children than their public school counterparts.
Chicago teachers are hitting the picket lines as strike for the first time in 25 years. Meanwhile, city officials vow to keep the district's nearly 400,000 students safe until teachers return to the classroom.
A Kansas lawmaker says there's no need to talk about new home schooling requirements, despite plans made last month by the state Board of Education to have that discussion.
The recruiting efforts target special-education teachers, but other high-demand teaching areas include math, science, English as a second language and consumer sciences.
Valley Center High School is one step closer to sending a student project to the International Space Station, but they need to raise $20,000 by Sept. 12.
The University of Iowa rejected the suspect in the July 20 shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater when he applied to a graduate program last year.
Police say a 15-year-old accused of shooting a classmate at a suburban Baltimore high school used a double-barreled shotgun that he took from his father's house and drank vodka before the shooting.
