
Augusta County Public Schools in Virginia are closed Friday, after parents objected to a ninth grade geography assignment that required students to copy the Shahada, an Islamic statement of faith that says, “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”
by Dr. Susan Berry18 Dec 2015, 6:46 AM PST0

Half of America’s children have a parent with a criminal record, creating many “barriers to opportunity” for parents and children, says the liberal Center for American Progress.
by Dr. Susan Berry17 Dec 2015, 9:01 PM PST0

A national coalition of parents is releasing a letter to House and Senate education committee leaders urging them to suspend their talks on the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) federal law until a new administration is elected.
by Dr. Susan Berry16 Oct 2015, 7:27 AM PST0

A marijuana dispensary scheduled to open in October elicited a protest from community leaders in San Diego on Wednesday.
by William Bigelow10 Sep 2015, 10:08 AM PST0

This article was originally posted by abc7ny.com: HOUSTON –Authorities are still searching for relatives of two small children left behind by their mother at Houston fire station. The two boys, ages 14 months and 3 years, were unharmed. According to the
by Breitbart News8 Sep 2015, 11:48 AM PST0

On Saturday morning, two brothers allegedly attempted to murder their parents in suburban Snellville, northeast of Atlanta.
by William Bigelow7 Sep 2015, 12:11 PM PST0

A Florida couple had their two boys, aged 11 and 4, removed from them because the eleven-year-old beat his parents home and was playing basketball alone in his yard.
by William Bigelow16 Jun 2015, 8:17 PM PST0

Arriving naked at a final exam is one of the most common nightmares for students, according to Psychology Today. At the University of California San Diego, however, the naked final exam is a requirement for a class in the visual arts
by Joel B. Pollak10 May 2015, 6:04 AM PST0

On Saturday, an Easter Egg Hunt in Sacramento that was attempting to become the world’s largest prompted parents to push other children aside as they maneuvered to grab the hidden eggs and prizes for their own children.
by William Bigelow6 Apr 2015, 11:42 AM PST0

Parents in Essex, England were shocked to learn that an American pornography company shot a racy film aboard a historic steam train attraction that has long been popular with the area’s children.
by Daniel Nussbaum2 Apr 2015, 11:03 AM PST0

Slowly we’ve witnessed an erosion of local control in public education across this country, though it hasn’t been as obvious since the Obama administration began the latest reform dubbed “Common Core.”
by Ann Marie Banfield21 Mar 2015, 8:44 AM PST0

More measles cases are appearing by the day in an outbreak that began mid-December in the traveler-magnet Magic Kingdom in Anaheim, California. In numbers updated Friday, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) reports 91 cases confirmed within California and has reported 16 outside the state for a total 107 measles-infected persons.
by Michelle Moons31 Jan 2015, 9:32 AM PST0

California teachers are attempting to lure parents into supporting Common Core by teaching them how to do the program’s infamous “new math” themselves.
by William Bigelow26 Jan 2015, 7:42 AM PST0

A study of California’s Bay area and Sonoma County suggests that the most under-vaccinated children in California are the very poor–and the very smart.
by Michelle Moons20 Jan 2015, 4:00 AM PST0