1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1025+ words) Parent-teacher conferences can conjure a familiar scene: adults crammed into child-size chairs, listening to teachers run through a list of students' achievements and struggles. For many families, they can also mean frustration. Today's school conferences are sometimes 15 to 20 minutes, with…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (682+ words) Nurses are charged with making sure kids are healthy enough to learn — but recent changes are making that task more difficult It’s back-to-school for Wisconsin students — and for the hundreds of school nurses who care for them in districts all…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (306+ words) Teachers unions suffered yet another deserved but embarrassing defeat this week. In Arizona, the state Supreme Court found that not only did unions fail to submit enough valid signatures to get their anti-school-choice proposition on the fall ballot, but they…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1074+ words) Creative Loafing is the best source for news on restaurants, concerts, theater, visual arts events in Charlotte. Mom homeschooling her young daughter Education is most valuable when young people can see how what they are learning connects to the world…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (334+ words) In a major victory for school choice, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that Proposition 212, the anti-school choice measure funded by out-of-state special interests, failed to turn in enough valid signatures to appear on this November’s ballot. These are the…...