School edits controversial books
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A Muslim school is removing from textbooks passages which allegedly brand other faiths as "worthless".
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The author of a best-selling comic book series intended to teach children about other countries said Monday he would change a chapter on Jews that has been called anti-Semitic and similar to Nazi propaganda.
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by JIM ELLIS ORLANDO, Fla. - Middle school teacher Julia Austin is noticing a new generation of errors creeping into her pupils' essays.
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Moves to bring sex out of the closet in  largely conservative India have kicked up a morality debate  between educators who say sex education will reduce HIV rates,  and critics who fear it will corrupt young minds.
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A popular English teacher has been placed on paid leave Â and faces possible criminal charges Â after a student's parents complained to police that a ninth-grade class reading list contained a book about a murderer who has sex with his victims' bodies.
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KOLOMNA, Russia - One of the most discordant debates in Russian society is playing out in public schools like those in this city not far from Moscow, where the other day a teacher named Irina Donshina set aside her textbooks, strode before her second-graders, and, as if speaking from a pulpit, posed a simple question:
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There are claims some schools told students the answers in a flawed  A-level practical exam.
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A public school has stirred debate over whether it can teach Hebrew without violating the church-state divide.
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Who says people don&#39;t care about books? For the second year in a row, controversy has swirled around the National Book Awards.
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The announcement of a battery of new standardized tests for students rekindled the debate over whether such testing is emphasized too much.
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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Some administrators are pushing back against an ethos of super-achievement at affluent suburban high schools.
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A high school is apologizing after an anonymous article was published in the school paper comparing rowdy black students at a fast food restaurant to "a pack of monkeys."
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The city's school board has revised its science curriculum to allow the teaching of creationism, prompting an outcry from more than 300 educators who urged that the decision be reversed.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kansas  - For the fourth time in eight years, the Kansas Board of Education is preparing to take up the issue of evolution and what to teach -- or not teach -- public school students about the origins of life.
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A plan to change school admissions in Brighton brings strong feelings and protests.
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Academics claim that patriotism should be taught as a controversial issue in schools.