SUFFOLK -- The 7-year-old classmates pointed pencils at each other and made shooting noises -- innocent play between friends, the mother of one said. "They were pretending they were in the military," Wendy Marshall said. What she called harmless fun ...

CHAPIN, S.C. -- Lexington-Richland 5 paid former Chapin High teacher Scott Compton $85,000 to avoid a legal challenge, part of a settlement that led to his resignation after he stomped on an American flag during a class lesson. The payment is on top ...

Local election officials are moving polling places out of schools as the shootings in Newtown, Conn., have intensified concern about opening school doors on Election Day. In New York, Rockland County officials will relocate polls this year away from ...

Last week in Baltimore, a second-grader got suspended from elementary school for shaping his Pop Tart into something that resembled a mountain. At least, that's what the 7-year-old claimed he was trying for. A teacher thought the nibbled-on pastry lo ...

An unprecedented agreement between two influential foundations, leading academics, two global testing firms and the video game industry could redefine how schools teach basic skills. Tinkering for the past several months at the Silicon Valley offices ...

One of the biggest surprises of the State of the Union Address was President Obama's proposal for making preschool available to all American children. His base is delighted: Universal preschool has been high on the liberal wish list for many decades. ...

Waiting in line for the bus, a Pennsylvania kindergartener tells her pals she's going to shoot them with a Hello Kitty toy that makes soap bubbles. In Maryland, two 6-year-old boys pretend their fingers are guns during a playground game of cops and r ...

Austin Medeiros said he has always felt an urge to be patriotic. The Camarillo High School student has chanted "USA, USA" after the singing of the national anthem at sporting events and student rallies and worn a U.S. flag bandanna, he said. With the ...

Brooklyn College, a once-esteemed campus in the City University system, this week joins a long list of enemies - from lefty denizens of the Park Slope Food Co-op to Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - who crave wiping the state of Israel from the ma ...

MOUNT CARMEL -- A 5-year-old kindergarten student at Mount Carmel Area Elementary School was scheduled to return to classes this morning after an agreement was reached Wednesday afternoon between her attorney and school district officials involving h ...