January 8, 2015 Dispute erupts over school reform in Newark, NJ More than three years after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg committed $100 million toward remaking Newark's struggling schools, the district is engulfed in a dispute over proposed large-scale teacher layoffs that's threatening to derail wider reform efforts.
January 8, 2015 School's exclusive pizza, dance party for straight-A students garners mixed feelings A Maryland middle school is holding a dance and pizza party complete with a DJ and a game room for students who got straight A's.
January 8, 2015 Texas OKs most new controversial history textbooks amid outcry Texas' school board approved new history textbooks Friday for use across the nation's second-largest state, but only after defeating six and seeing a top publisher withdraw a seventh -- capping months of outcry over lessons some academics say exaggerate the influence of Moses in American democracy and negatively portray Muslims.
January 8, 2015 Texas OKs most proposed new history textbooks despite outside objections, publisher withdrawal A Texas panel has approved 89 history and social studies textbooks for use in classrooms across America's second-largest state, after one top publisher withdrew a book.
