Colombian singer Shakira knows a thing or two about educating children.
Education
In Some States, Guns Are Heading to College Campuses
Thanks to a surge in changing regulations, many student’s first-day-of-college checklist could read something like this: textbooks, check; laptop, check; handgun, check.
Can Banning Hand-Raising Promote a Calmer Classroom?
Give Me a ‘T’: Students Stealing Bevy of Letters on Georgia Tech Campus
Georgia Tech students just can’t get enough of basic reading and writing, it seems.
Study: Most U.S. States Score an ‘F’ on Civil Rights Education
American students are increasingly ignorant of the basic history of the civil rights movement, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
New Jersey College Offers $21K Tuition Cut for Good Grades
Those report-card As could be worth thousands of dollars at one private college.
Pencils Down: 7 Students Arrested in SAT Cheating Scheme
It was an elaborate ruse that involved fake IDs, air travel and lots of money. If only such effort was applied to actually studying.
Baking Battle: Student Group Under Fire For Its Anti-Affirmative Action Bake Sale
A student group at UC Berkeley cooks up controversy with its anti-affirmative action bake sale.
Bye, Bye Ban: Mark Twain’s ‘Eve’s Diary’ Formally Restored to Library
More than a century ago, Mark Twain’s short story Eve’s Diary was banned from a Massachusetts library due to nude illustrations of biblical Eve. But nowadays, with books like Twilight and Crank being constantly challenged for …
No One Knows What ‘Hooking Up’ Entails — Not Even Those Who Are Doing It
NewsFeed is sure that we can all agree that college students are hooking up. Now if we could only figure out what that means.
British School Bans Makeup and Mirrors to Combat Vanity
Teenage girls at a British secondary school have apparently become entranced by their own heavily made up reflections.
Pop Quiz: D.C. Public Schools Put Sex Education to the Test
Controversy over standardized testing has popped up again in Washington. But this time it’s the subject matter that has been called into question.