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Talk about being responsible for your kids' behavior: A guy in Kentucky is serving six months in jail. Why? His daughter failed her math test and didn't get her GED. The GED was required by a previous court order, and even though his daughter is now 18 years old, the decision was rendered when...

In general, I'm suspicious of hysteria surrounding how kids use the latest technology--nine times out of ten, they just do the same things kids have always done, but in a more high tech way. However, I'm a little torn as to whether social networking sites are bringing changes to interactions...

Bullying gets all of the coverage these days. Sadly, it's not the most disruptive item in a teenager's list of crap that they have to endure. No, the bigger issue seems to get the least coverage. According to a new study , more than one-third of middle- and high-schoolers believes that they have...

A school district in Louisiana was ordered to stop giving away free bibles to students, because it goes against the separation of church and state. It seems the Gideons -- the same group that makes your 1-hour stay at Motel 6 feel slightly shameful, even if your status as Client No. 8 doesn't --...

Forget about single-sex classrooms, says Israeli researcher Analia Schlosser. Even a small majority of girls in a classroom dramatically increases the learning achievement for both boys AND girls -- even more so than in boys-only and girls-only classes. OK, well that's interesting, especially in...

This is a new occasional feature where I'll highlight studies that seem to confirm the obvious. In Philadelphia, land of the cheese steak, five elementary schools participated in a program where candy and soda were eliminated from the vending machines, and kids were rewarded with raffle tickets for...

Nope, it's not April Fool's Day again . The kindergarten-aged son of a preacher man in Greenville, South Carolina told his teacher that one of his little friends " liked looking at her behind." This led to a "discipline referral" with a charge of " Sex/Harass ."...

Despite what Adrienne pointed out about chubby kids having fewer cavities , a school principal in New Zealand isn't taking any chances. Megan Bowden of the Oteha Valley primary school has issued a decree: no more cake . With a large number of kids having birthdays in September and October, every...

Céline Dion is taking her son, Rene Charles, 7, on her world tour with her. That means he'll be missing around six months of school, which is the dream of every second-grader in the world. Of the classes he'll miss Céline says, “This kind of experience is about as good an education as you can...