Math Skills Show Little Growth
"Oh, no. All of our high-paying jobs differentiating between parallelograms and rhombuses are sure to go to the Chinese."
Nation's Strangers Decry Negative Portrayal Among Children
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Watching Faces Of Students As They Finish 'The Lottery' Highlight Of English Teacher's Year
CHICAGO—Ninth-grade Collins High School English teacher Melissa Hamlin told coworkers Monday that the one moment she looks forward to all year, watching her students reach the end of Shirley...
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Alphabet Updated With 15 Exciting New Replacement Letters
NEW YORK—Dynamic, sleek, and even sexy is how a panel of typographic and marketing experts described the 15 new replacement letters they unveiled Monday in an effort to reinvigorate interest...
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Physics Teacher's Car Accident Would've Made Perfect Example For Class
ASTORIA, OR—The deadly auto wreck that claimed the life of local high school science teacher Donald Vaughan, 47, would have neatly and succinctly illustrated the basic laws of classical...
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Montessori School Of Dentistry Lets Students Discover Their Own Root Canal Procedures
NEW YORK—Inside the Montessori School of Dentistry, you won't find any old-fashioned cotton swabs, or so-called periodontal charts, or even any amalgam fillings. That's because at this...
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Quaker Oats Canister Relabeled 'DRUGS' For Grade School Play
ABINGDON, MD—In order to dispel any confusion regarding the contents of a 42-ounce Quaker Oats canister used in the play Drugs Stink!, Orchard Elementary School students wrapped the...
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Death Of 12 Schoolchildren Makes Perfect Sense
MYRTLE BEACH, SC—In a tragedy none have struggled to comprehend, a group of 12 schoolchildren on a whale-watching trip died in a perfectly logical manner Tuesday when their boat capsized one...
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University Of Illinois Researchers Find Link Between Attending University Of Illinois, Receiving Solid Education At Great Price
URBANA, IL—According to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois, there is a strong correlation between enrolling at the local four-year college and receiving a...
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Teacher Wishes She Could Inspire One Of The More Popular Students
GRESHAM, OR—After spending half an hour Monday instilling much-needed confidence in one of her most timid freshmen, Sam Barlow High School English teacher Karen Norgren, 48, expressed her...
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