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A study out of Seattle says putting automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in every school may not be worth the cost. The Seattle Times says the survey of emergency response to schools in the Seattle area over 16 years found that students suffered cardiac arrests only 12 times and a third of these children had known […]

Supporters of a new law in Texas argue that it will protect the right of students to express their religious views in public schools. But Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, says the law should have come with a warning: “Following this law will probably get you sued.”
She writes in the […]

Several years ago round these parts (Kansas and Missouri), early-release heat schedules were a routine occurrence in August and sometimes into September. As school calendars crept more and more into the dog days of summer, classrooms often were unbearably hot. More widespread installation of air conditioning has eliminated that problem in some districts, but […]

Here it is, Aug. 20, two weeks before Labor Day, and lots of children already have headed back to school (including the ones who live in my house). People of a certain age recall fondly when summer would drag on through the end of August, and school wouldn’t resume until Jerry Lewis had belted out […]

To accommodate the prayer rituals of Muslim students, the University of Michigan-Dearborn has decided to do what several other campuses have already done: install footbaths, The New York Times reports. The decision is controversial, and students are divided on whether it’s an appropriate use of their building-maintenance fees. The newspaper says some have raised […]