FDA Recommends COVID Vaccines for Young Kids; 3rd Pfizer Dose May Be Key Receive stories like these directly in your email inbox by signing up for Newsletter. This is our weekly update on the pandemic, verified by John Bailey. Access the complete archive by clicking here. Top Story of the Week During a demonstration urging the approval of COVID-19 vaccines for young children, a child holds a...

Class Disrupted Podcast: Why Is This Teacher Shortage Different — and How Did We Get Here? Receive stories like these directly delivered to your email inbox. Sign up for Newsletter. Class Disrupted is an educational podcast that airs every two weeks. It features conversations between author Michael Horn and Diane Tavenner, the founder of Summit Public Schools. Together, they engage with...

The National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) is a prestigious organization that is open to students in grades six through twelve who have maintained a GPA of 3.5 or higher. In order to be accepted into NJHS, students must write an essay describing why they should be inducted into the society. The National Junior Honor Society essay is your opportunity to shine. This is your chance to explain why you...

Charles Adair, the superintendent of the public schools in this area, doesn't mind being referred to as frugal. In fact, it's considered quite an honor to be seen as thrifty, especially when you are responsible for managing a $9 million annual budget. To reduce the electricity bill, Adair makes sure to turn off the lights before he leaves his office for lunch. For many years, he had an...

New regulations set by the Congress have left Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley with a limited budget of just over $1,000 for official travel expenses for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends on September 30. These restrictions have resulted in trips being canceled and the need to plan, less expensive ground travel to nearby locations such as Baltimore and Annapolis, Maryland. The...

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to prohibit official prayer at public-school graduation ceremonies has left many educators disappointed. This ruling has disrupted a long-standing tradition in districts where prayer has been a common practice. However, some school officials are determined to find loopholes and work around the ban. On the other hand, this ruling has also alleviated the...

The future of approximately 120,000 students attending Detroit public schools remained uncertain as the teachers' strike carried on past the first day of school and district officials indefinitely canceled classes. On September 5, the only day of the school year so far, students attended class at Lodge Elementary School on the west side of Detroit. In the absence of striking teachers,...

In the future home of the Thurgood Marshall Academy charter school, pigeons fly through the rafters and the walls are crumbling. It may not look like a place fit for a big-city mayor, but Mayor Anthony A. Williams of the District of Columbia is excited about the project to convert this vacant building into a community-oriented campus for 350 high school students. Williams is not alone in his...

Victoria Walsh and Gregory Kurtzman are gaining knowledge about the extremely cold temperatures on Mars by layering clothes in Kathy Horstmeyer's first-grade class at Gladwyne Elementary School in Pennsylvania. They are part of the Mars Millennium Project, a federally sponsored initiative that focuses on Mars exploration and the new millennium. This project is a collaboration between the...