Elementary Education

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President Obama Visits Maryland Grade School

Getty Images 33 days ago

SILVER SPRING, MD - OCTOBER 19: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to third and fourth graders during their lunch period at Viers Mill Elementary School October 19, 2009 in Silver Spring, Maryland. The elementary school was named a 2005 National ...

No common sense

Las Vegas Sun 35 days ago

Zero-tolerance policies in the schools lead to ridiculous punishments and should be changed Zachary Christie, a Delaware 6-year-old, was so excited about joining the Cub Scouts this year that he brought a camping utensil with him to school to eat lunch. When ...

Math tests: Fourth-grader progress stalls

AP News 38 days ago

On nationwide math tests, fourth-grader progress stalls but eighth-graders improve New math scores show fourth-graders made no gains since 2007, the first time in two decades they have failed to improve. Eighth-graders advanced for yet another year. Education officials called the results ...

Zero Tolerance Boy

AP News 38 days ago

George E. Evans, left, president of the Christina School Board and Marcia Lyles, superintendent of the Christina School District glance at one another during a school board meeting Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 in Bear, Del. The board discussed the recent suspension of ...

Zero Tolerance

AP News 38 days ago

This image from video provided by the CBS Early Show shows Zachary Christie, 6 during an interview on Tuesday Oct. 13, 2009 in Newark, Del. The Delaware first-grader suspended for bringing his favorite camping utensil to school will likely get a reprieve, ...

Improving Indian School

AP News 40 days ago

Former Tohatchi Elementary School principal George Bickert, who led the school from needing corrective action to making adequate yearly progress, high fives students during a visit on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, in Tohatchi, N.M. (AP Photo/Heather Clark) Copyright 2009 AP News

NM school goes from worst to among best in 3 years

AP News 40 days ago

NM Indian school beats poverty, language barrier to boost reading, math scores in 3 years Fifth grader Darius Yazzie's after-school chores include hauling water for horses and feeding chickens, while his classmate, Shanika Begay, rides a bus 15 miles each way through ...

Black Male Teachers

AP News 43 days ago

Hayward Jean, 27, center, works with his fourth grade single gender students during a math lesson on patterns Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, at Marshall Elementary School in Orangeburg, S. C. Jean is a graduate of the Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role ...

Girl, 5, killed when school cabinet falls on her

AP News 44 days ago

Cabinet at Texas school topples on 5-year-old girl after children climb inside, killing her A large open cabinet with children playing inside toppled on a 5-year-old girl at a Texas middle school, killing her. The accident occurred Wednesday in the gymnasium at ...

Biting pupil pried from Ohio teacher's arm

AP News 45 days ago

Ohio police say student bit teacher on the arm and had to be pried off by school official Police said an Ohio elementary school student bit a teacher on the arm and had to be pried off by a school official. Dayton ...

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