Teachers fight back over classics
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English teachers hit out at Alan Johnson over orders to teach Dickens and Austen to 11-year-olds.
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Tough-love academies march on, despite criticism. TIME looks inside one school's techniques
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A backlash brews as parents are asked to write checks for school activities.
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A high court battle between a schoolgirl and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate in Britain about how to make sex education effective.
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A play by Sophocles from the fifth century B.C. has lessons for todayâs medical students.
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Inside the new classroom power struggle: what teachers say about pushy moms and dads who drive them crazy
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ROME - In an era of low-rising jeans, one Italian high school has launched an uprising.  A school in central Italy asked students to stop wearing low-slung trousers that expose navels, underwear, and sometimes much more.
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A governmental plan to shift the main language of instruction in the nationa s Russian high schools to Estonian is being viewed with uncertainty and pessimism by principals and teachers, a recent survey by the ...
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A high court battle between a schoolgirl  and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring  pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate  in Britain about how to make sex education effective.
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A think-tank calls for soldiers to be retrained as teachers to tackle indiscipline in the classroom.
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Media & professional: Academics and students hit back at lecturers' support for a boycott of Israeli institutions.
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Head teachers warn the exam system is in trouble because of the number of pupils challenging results.
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American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Now educators are starting to look at what needs to be done to prepare students to compete in a new global economy.
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Kansas Board of Education members who approved new classroom standards that call evolution into question faced a counterattack at the polls Tuesday from Darwin's defenders.
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A debate is festering among graduates and parents at St. Paul's, an elite school in New Hampshire, with critics accusing trustees and the rector of mismanagement.
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School districts in three states and the nation's largest teachers union asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to revive a lawsuit challenging the way government-mandated programs are funded.
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Criticism of the No Child Left Behind Act by Democratic presidential contenders is endangering its renewal.