Curriculum - Page 49

September 15, 2016

'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep' defend Emmy crowns amid change

Television has become a Wild West of adventurous channels and booming digital platforms, with intriguing new shows pouring into its wide-open spaces.

September 4, 2016

'Makerspaces' balance, challenge for test-heavy curriculums

Public schools around the country are joining an educational movement that changes how students learn and teachers work.

August 27, 2016

Welcome to the fourth grade: Teacher's rap targets students

A new teacher who made a music video to welcome his students has become a bit of a star with his fourth-graders.

August 25, 2016

Herb Alpert endows LA City College music education

Herb Alpert's foundation has given $10.1 million to endow music education at Los Angeles City College.

August 6, 2016

American victim of knife attack remembered fondly

Friends and colleagues described 64-year-old Florida woman killed in a knife rampage in central London as a retired special education teacher who enjoyed tennis and doted on her husband.

July 8, 2016

Bill Nye visits new Noah's ark attraction he criticized

Bill Nye is touring a new Noah's Ark attraction in Kentucky that he has called a danger to the nation's science education.

July 6, 2016

Lawsuit: Lab students at university in Ohio grouped by sex

A University of Cincinnati student is suing the school in federal court, saying she was told she had to work with other female students and not with male students in a physics lab.

July 2, 2016

Elite NYC school teaching kindergartners about 'white privilege'

An elite Manhattan school is teaching white students as young as 6 that they’re born racist and should feel guilty benefiting from “white privilege,” while heaping praise and cupcakes on their black peers.

June 16, 2016

Delaware school drops Redskins nickname

A Delaware school has joined other institutions that will stop using the nickname "Redskins" and Native American imagery.

June 13, 2016

Andrew Lloyd Webber offers $1.3 million grant for children

Andrew Lloyd Webber came to cheer on his kid rock band at the Tony Awards — and also to give out some money to encourage more musical kids.