Here’s one outcome of Colorado’s Amendment 64 that supporters probably didn’t see coming.
Education
Boy, 11, Fakes Own Kidnapping to Stop Parent-Teacher Conference
Probably not the smartest idea when your father is a police officer.
French Police Roust Five-Year Old For Unpaid School Lunch Bill
A series of bad choices lead to French police removing a child from a school lunchroom for her parents’ late payments–a provoke a nationwide stomach ache.
French Teacher Suspended For Essay Assignment Justifying Suicide
A French educator sparks controversy with an essay assignment to adolescent students, asking them to contemplate and justify the suicide impulse–one 500,000 French youths act upon each year.
40,000 NYU Students Spammed in ‘Replyallcalypse’
What would you write if you could send a note to 40,000 people? This week students at New York University had the chance to do just that, after an NYU sophomore accidentally discovered a bug in a school Listserv system that …
French Government Goes Back To School for Anti-Sexism Training
Members of French President Hollande’s cabinet undergo obligatory sexism awareness training as part of a push to attain gender equality–with mixed initial results
Students’ Parody of 2009 Rihanna Assault Sparks Outrage
High school students in southern New York are courting controversy over a questionable skit performed during a homecoming rally on Friday. Waverly High School in Tioga County, New York, is facing harsh criticism in the aftermath …
Welcome to the World’s Biggest School
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, has 39,437 pupils and 2,500 teachers.
Georgia School District Hopes Mandatory Mandarin Classes Can Boost Graduation Rate
A Georgia county looks to the world’s second-largest economy to fix its education system
The School Ranking List Harvard Doesn’t Top
Think you’ll be making top dollar with that Harvard diploma hanging on your wall? Sure, the Cambridge, Mass. university topped U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of the best colleges in the nation (again), and is third …
LSU Evacuates Due to Bomb Threat
The Monday after three schools across the country evacuated due to bomb scares, Louisana State University follows suit.
And the Best College of 2013 Is…
U.S. News and World Report has released its Best Colleges list for 2013, which unsurprisingly looks a lot like last year’s list.