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The Wildcats, as millions of tweens and teens know, are the singing and dancing kids from Disney’s High School Musical and High School Musical 2. Now they’re making High School Musical 3, which means the house they’re in is East High School in Salt Lake City, where filming takes place.
Some students are excited that Troy […]

A call to use locally produced food is gaining momentum in Colorado high schools, The Denver Post says. Some students say they find homegrown beef can be more palatable–if pricier–than what cafeterias used to serve. However, some school systems say the higher costs of locally produced beef and the bureaucracy associated with food-service operations (for […]

Kent Gramm, a professor at Wheaton College, an evangelical Christian liberal arts school in the suburbs of Chicago, has resigned effective the end of this semester, The New York Times says. Why? He’s getting divorced.
The school has everyone sign an agreement to uphold certain biblical standards of behavior, and divorce for reasons other […]

From The Detroit News: Gregory E. Bradbury must have some money– in 2004, the Michigan State University alumnus and member of the university’s Foundation board has bequeathed $1 million to the university’s business school and library. So it’s curious (and some might say classless) that he owes his ex-wife $45,000 in delinquent support payments […]

Paul Vallas, now running the Recovery School District in New Orleans, says he “would be open” to exploring a run for governor of Illinois, according to The Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Tribune’s Clout Street blog.
Vallas was in charge of the Chicago school system from 1995 to 2001 and was credited with getting the district […]

Colleges continue to construct new student housing filled with amenities to attract students who are accustomed to comfortable accommodations. In the Boston area, The Boston Globe reports, Tufts University is studying how to upgrade their residence halls, and Harvard University, Boston University, Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology all have built or are […]

Last week, St. Xavier University in Chicago and Oakland University in Auburn, Hills, Mich., closed their campuses for a few days in the wake of graffiti found on each campus that threatened violence. (See Chicago Tribune article and Detroit Free Press article)
In light of the incidents, The Tribune reports, campus security experts were debating whether […]

High school students in Chicago can get a reduced-fare transit card so they can ride the Chicago Transit Authority trains and buses to and from school at a bargain rate. Now, The Chicago Tribune says, Chicago public school officials are looking into the possibility of using smart-card technology so they can track the […]

Fairfax High School is one of about 40 schools in the Los Angeles Unified District that will be expected to share space with the district’s privately run charter schools, The Los Angeles Times reports. The folks at Fairfax aren’t happy about it. They say the charter school will impede Fairfax’s efforts to improve by taking […]

The Prince George’s County (Md.) district is spending up to $1 million a year to install voice amplification systems in every classroom, The Washington Post reports. Teachers wear infrared microphones that raise the volume and clarity of teachers’ voices above the distracting buzz of competing noises. But some advocates for better classroom acoustics say that […]