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The Chicago Tribune reports that school systems around the nation are debating the pros and cons of chocolate milk. On the one hand, students who might not otherwise choose milk will drink chocolate milk and improve their calcium intake. On the other hand, chocolate milk is laden with sugar and could exacerbate the […]

Ten years ago this week, Texas A&M University was hit by tragedy when a 60-foot-tall pile of logs collapsed, killing 12 students and injuring 27 others. The students were taking part in a longstanding tradition –amassing a huge collection of logs that would be burned in a bonfire before the school’s annual football game with […]

In Texas, Education Commissioner Robert Scott is quoted in The Austin American-Statesman that he intends to make it easier for high-performing charter schools in the state to expand. But in Virginia, despite the new governor-elect’s support for charter schools, significant hurdles stand in the way of any quick moves to ease approval of charter schools, […]

A report by the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago concludes that the practice of shutting down failing schools in the Chicago public school system has resulted in little or no improvement for most students. The researchers looked at 18 elementary schools that were closed between 2001 and 2006. Those schools […]