EducationNews

ALOT OF LIP service is given to not tolerating bad teachers. Educators, politicians and even union leaders say that there is no place in the classroom for a teacher who can't produce results. But actually doing something about the situation is an entirely different matter.

Crowded classrooms mean fewer student needs are met, they say

The abolition of GCSEs and a return to the leaving certificate of the 1950s would stop the academic rot, writes Ken Boston.

By SAM DILLON - The Department of Education, preparing to give hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, estimated how long it should take each state to prepare its proposal: 681 hours.

Two students collected 217 samples they encountered daily and found mislabeled food and at least one surprise: hot dogs actually made of beef.

Gov. David Paterson is calling on school districts to dip into their multimillion-dollar reserve accounts to soften the blow of budget cuts.

The title of the blue, orange and white artwork -- a combination of paint and broken glass on canvas -- is "I Will Survive."

Florida is taking part in a high-stakes competition with the other 49 states to bring up to $700 million in national education funding to the state.

School mergers might divide neighbors or drain the life out of towns left without schools, but they don't hurt students, new University of Northern Iowa research shows.

In what appeared to be a diplomatic gesture by the Democratic Party of Japan, a new instruction manual for high school social studies classes does not mention the territorial dispute with South Korea over the Takeshima islets.

A dozen childminders a day are quitting the profession because of Labour's 'nappy curriculum'.