Parents at some public schools are looking into the possibility of renting their schools and paying teachers directly to keep their children learning on "furlough Fridays."
Schools featuring clean air, plenty of natural light, wastewater recycling, renewable power and other ways to lessen their impact on the environment also offer health and educational benefits for students and faculty, said a leading congressional advocate of that style of school construction.
If your son or daughter is accepted at Yale this year, you probably won't have to borrow a dime to pay for that Ivy League education, thanks to Yale's expanded financial aid for middle- and upper-middle-income families.
WASHINGTON — Pre-kindergarten programs in Hawai'i and other states need more federal help to cope with a growing and, so far unmet, demand, Elisabeth Chun, a state education leader, told a House panel yesterday.
A confidential database of about 37,000 teachers nationwide punished for a variety of offenses is commonly used by the Hawai'i Teacher Standards Board, the licensing agency for teachers in the state, when considering whether to license out-of-state teachers.
In more and more classrooms across the nation, students — from kindergarten on — are learning Mandarin Chinese, in some cases instead of Spanish, French or other languages that have long been more popular in U.S. schools.
President Bush yesterday signed into law a five-year renewal of Head Start, the federal preschool program for poor children. The latest update to Head Start, which began in 1965, aims to open the program to more children and ensure that teachers are better qualified.
College administrators grumble about the rise of "helicopter parents," moms and dads who keep hovering over the lives of their children even after they leave for college
Graphic depictions of violence, suicide and sexual assault in two Pat Conroy books are at the heart of a First Amendment debate, pitting offended parents against high school students who object to being told what they can't read.
More than 1,800 high school students across the state are feverishly preparing for this weekend's battle of the bands — marching bands, that is. Students from 15 high schools will participate in the 31st annual Tournament of Bands hosted by Kamehameha Schools.
