Schools Struggle to Retain Pathologists
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Some preschool teachers would do anything to keep their students quiet, but Phyllis Wilson's classroom is designed to get them talking. Her seven preschoolers have a variety of disabilities that leave them with low verbal skills. So she's worked with Houston school district speech-language pathologist Johanna Olson to create an environment that teases out their voices.
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Carol Brody, an elementary school guidance counselor, has some advice for those wonder why educators are frustrated. "They should walk for one hour in a teacher's shoes," Brody said, "and then you wouldn't hear those criticisms from them again."
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The last phase of the reform timeline outlined by No Child Left Behind poses challenges for underperformers.
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The city's public school choice process has left many parents and children stressed.
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Pressure is building in some British schools to remove wireless LAN networks as parents and teachers site health concerns.
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At the end of her teaching day, Felicita Figueroa would like nothing more than to leave her crumbling, rat-infested school building in the Puerto Rican capital. But to pay her bills, she needs to stay late and offer private tutoring sessions.
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Universities face a "serious bottleneck" in finding enough students, an international study warns.
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After last month's disintegration of the California Charter Academy, parents are still looking for alternate schools and many teachers are looking for jobs.
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A state where charter schools have been growing fast - and running into troubles - is now debating a new approach
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Six months after frustrated doctors publicized the problems stalling a key cancer detection program for District women, the program is at another crossroads because of a recruitment and enrollment freeze forced by the federal government.
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Officials at Texas' largest school district, which once miscounted nearly 3,000 dropouts, hope that by taking a personal interest in at-risk students and dividing them into smaller classes, they will stay in school.
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More than a quarter of newly qualified primary school teachers have not yet found permanent work, a survey says.
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WASHINGTON - Many school districts are struggling to let students transfer from poorly performing schools to better ones, as required under federal law, a study finds.
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Community colleges are being deluged with hundreds of thousands of students unprepared for college-level work.
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The antibiotic-resistant germ that has infected several area teachers and some students is not just a concern for schools.
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A survey suggests more than a third of primary schools have problems recruiting head teachers.
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Underperforming colleges face a tough new intervention regime under plans outlined by the education secretary.