Eight years ago, a California school district abolished a two-tiered system for academic haves and have-nots and replaced it with one pointing all students toward college. It's paying off.
(August 12, 2006)
Students speak out at a national poetry recitation contest. A multimedia report.
(May 23, 2006)
Kentucky native Joe Bowen isn't just crossing the country by bicycle. He's bringing elementary school kids along for the ride.
(November 11, 2005)
In a Missouri town, a $980,000 bequest from a local benefactor prompts questions about who ultimately controls private donations to public schools.
(September 30, 2005)
Growing numbers of educators are using music, and guitars especially, to reinforce lessons across the curriculum.
(August 12, 2005)
Bearing John Lennon's name, a tour bus packed with recording equipment offers high schoolers a creative outlet.
(August 11, 2005)
Politically incorrect mascots fight to stay on the field.
(August 12, 2005)
An acclaimed ballet dancer returns home
to Florida's so-called Redneck Riviera and opens a magnet school for dance.
(April 15, 2005)
By tracking coyotes through urban neighborhoods, high school students help dispel unbased fears.
(February 18, 2005)
How one environmental science teacher turned an empty lot into an open-air lab.
(December 27, 2004)
Outward Bound forsakes the wilderness for the urban jungle to help teachers encourage student risk-taking.
(December 27, 2004)
To counter obesity and other health problems, disabled students in Alaska are given extra attention to stay physically fit.
(December 27, 2004)
For 35 years, the replica sloop Clearwater has offered students a glimpse of the storied past and murky present of New York waterways.
(November 12, 2004)
Largely by word-of-mouth, children's book character Flat Stanley has linked students around the world.
(November 12, 2004)
Students at the top of the academic heap should challenge what’s normally taken for granted, a parent argues.
(October 7, 2004)
As a defensive lineman for the Baltimore Colts, the 6-foot-4-inch, 260-pound Joe Ehrmann was an all-pro bruiser on the field and a party animal off of it. But in 1978, after his 18-year-old brother died of cancer, Ehrmann blazed another path.
(October 7, 2004)
The Louisville Leopard Percussionists owe their accolades to elementary school teacher Diane Downs, a closetful of abandoned instruments, and no small measure of intuition. Includes audio clips.
(October 8, 2004)
Vocational education should challenge the divide between manual and mental work.
(October 8, 2004)
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