A recently released annual survey on student engagement has found that, in the grand American tradition, high school students continue to be bored. The “2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement,” ...

One glance, and any teacher knows the score: That student, halfway down the row, staring blankly at his tapping pen, fidgeting, sneaking glances at the wall clock roughly every 30 seconds, is ...

About teacher Gary McDonald telling some of his students he felt like lining them up against a wall and shooting them (Thursday article, “Student says teacher threatened shooting”): It’s a figure of ...

I was 34 when I went back to high school. I returned as a reporter, visiting schools all over the country, and eventually the world, as I wrote about education. On my new beat, almost everything felt ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In a nationwide survey of high school students, 75% reported negative feelings related to school. Researchers from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and the Yale Child ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — A Lee County student is in trouble at school after making three false reports to a suicide prevention hotline for veterans — all because he was bored in class. The student, who hasn ...

While preparing for another school year, I wonder why some of my students come to class curious, motivated, eager to learn while others are bored, restless, and don’t seem to care. What makes the ...

Ask us about COVID-19: What questions do you have about the current surge? Eleven months. That’s how long it has been since students enrolled in the School District of Philadelphia have stepped into a ...

Children across Georgia are now back to school. For some students, the return to school felt like a burden, a necessary chore they have to slog through every day, but not for the reasons you might ...

About 70 students, parents, teachers, and residents gathered for a vigil Sunday night at Randolph Town Hall to remember Chris DeFreitas, a 16-year-old sophomore at Randolph High School who died last ...