A public Illinois high school that requires female students to wear skirts or dresses and men to wear pants and and a tie to their graduation ceremony is facing criticism from parents and alums who take issue with the policy. » 4/17/14 6:15pm 4/17/14 6:15pm

Teaching is a tough job. Kids are jerks, parents are jerks, there's little room for advancement, and in most parts of the country, teachers don't get paid enough. So you can't blame them for being short every once in awhile! » 4/10/14 4:30pm 4/10/14 4:30pm

Michael Leucke, a 72-year-old substitute teacher in Stamford, Connecticut has been arrested for allegedly masturbating in a school hallway before his first class. » 2/28/14 10:00am 2/28/14 10:00am

Computer science classes are notoriously difficult because there's a lot of math, a lot of code translation, and a lot of logic involved. Well, actually, the logic part may not be a strong argument considering the question an instructor at Memorial University in Canada put on his exam. » 2/01/14 5:09pm 2/01/14 5:09pm

Well, to put it bluntly, this completely sucks: anti-censorship group The Kids' Right to Read Project (KRRP) has reported that U.S. schools are increasingly banning books that deal with race or sexuality and books written by "minority" authors. » 12/24/13 1:40pm 12/24/13 1:40pm

For decades, the school system hasn't just been about developing the minds of children, it's been dedicated to developing their muscles, as well, with those massive, thick, mandatory textbooks. But one school in New York is abandoning paper books and going all-digital. » 12/23/13 6:00pm 12/23/13 6:00pm

The administration of a French secondary school (in France, not in New Orleans or, Charlemagne forbid, Québec) is fairly upset about an adult film — or "skin flick," as the jeunes say — that was filmed right outside of the school and featured an actress playing the role of a school supervisor. » 12/22/13 3:00pm 12/22/13 3:00pm

If this is what we're feeding our nation's children, we should not be surprised if they all grow up to be malnourished serial killers who only eat cat turds marinated in swamp sludge. » 11/29/13 10:45am 11/29/13 10:45am

A prekindergarten teacher is facing disciplinary action from the Buffalo School District after she sent parents a (handwritten!) letter about how their kids were so gross and stinky that she could hardly bring herself to go near them. » 11/24/13 2:00pm 11/24/13 2:00pm

The movies lied to us! It's not totally jocks vs. nerds when it comes to picking friends in school, your besties are most likely just the kids you sit near in class. According to a national study of 3,000 students at 78 high schools across the United States, found that the courses students take have a profound effect… » 11/19/13 1:00pm 11/19/13 1:00pm

Meet 12-year-old Paloma Noyola Bueno. She goes to José Urbina López Primary School in Matamoros, Mexico. She's being touted as "the face of Mexico's unleashed potential." Mentioning Steve Jobs in the headline is purposely attention-grabbing — on Wired's part and on mine — but the gist of it is this: Our current idea of… » 10/24/13 3:10pm 10/24/13 3:10pm

Back-to-school time can be stressful for everyone, but it became especially stressful for one Greenfield, Ind. high school student when her father, irate over an issue with her school’s dress code, got into an argument with school administrators that ended with him being Tased. Thanks, Dad, for ruining high school. » 9/07/13 6:00pm 9/07/13 6:00pm

Parents whose children are in New York public schools are pissed that Rosh Hashana has fallen so unusually early this year, which means they have to deal with their kids for an entire extra week of summer break. » 9/04/13 12:30pm 9/04/13 12:30pm

Some L.A. private schools are bringing in celebrity photographers for portrait day. Is this supposed to shock me? Color me not shocked. » 8/15/13 2:40pm 8/15/13 2:40pm

Danielle Powell was one semester short of earning her bachelor's degree when she was kicked out of Nebraska's religious Grace University for being gay in the year two thousand and twelve. Now, she says the only way the school will transfer her credits to another university is if she agrees to pay up $6,300. » 6/16/13 9:30pm 6/16/13 9:30pm

Rasan Portlock and his 10-year-old Ryheim spoke to Today about the positive changes they've seen in the educational system at Devonshire Elementary School in Charlotte, N.C. The interview is filled with so much love and admiration that your heart will most likely double in size and then hug itself. » 6/12/13 10:00am 6/12/13 10:00am

Like cicadas, law school graduates working as bartenders, feral cats prowling the abandoned alleyways of Detroit, and people who say they’ve read Infinite Jest but have only really skimmed the first 50 pages, it would seem our society currently contains far too-many high school valedictorians. Depending on your level… » 6/02/13 2:30pm 6/02/13 2:30pm