Parents against Pride: 'Leave our kids alone'

Parents -- many of them Armenian immigrants -- protested a Pride assembly at a Los Angeles elementary school, reports Clara Harter for...

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Parents against Pride: 'Leave our kids alone'

Parents -- many of them Armenian immigrants -- protested a Pride assembly at a Los Angeles elementary school, reports Clara Harter for...

Joanne Jacobs

Good Book or bad book? Bible is challenged in Utah

The Bible is off the shelves at elementary and middle-school libraries in a suburban Utah district, after a parent's complaint, writes...

Joanne Jacobs

The horrors of Christian homeschooling, as told by secularists

Christian homeschoolers are Bible-thumping, child-beating isolationists who hope their numerous children will take over America,...

Joanne Jacobs

Finland's secret: Teachers teach

Finland has become a mecca for miracle-seeking educators, writes Sam Chaltain on Letters from the Future (of Learning). Teaching is an...

Joanne Jacobs

Schools pair virtual teacher with in-person 'learning coach'

The geometry teacher is in Maryland. The students are in California. A small San Jose charter school is using virtual teachers and...

Joanne Jacobs

At 91, math teacher isn't ready to retire

After 63 years of teaching high school math in Alexandria, Virginia, Lou Kokonis isn't planning to retire. The 91-year-old comes early to...

Joanne Jacobs

Don't make math harder than it needs to be

Struggle is supposed to be good for math students, writes Greg Ashman on Filling the Pail. Telling them how to solve problems is supposed...