My son's experience in a French school was not a good one

As a new book lays bare the inadequacies of the French education system, Emily Barr relives her own disastrous experience of trying to settle her son into a French primary school: 'I felt sick with recognition' In his first year at his new primary school in Cornwall, my son Gabe gave a talk to the class about his experience the previous year at school in France. "The teacher shouted all the time ...

First day at Dedham's Rashi School

For their first-ever day of school at their new home in Dedham, teacher Karen Abraham set up a scavenger hunt for her Rashi School first-graders.

Shorter School Weeks in Ga. to Save Money

Thanks to a long Labor Day weekend, most students heading back to school today will enjoy a four-day school week. But for some students around the country, every week this school year will be only four days.

A good year for Tuxedo Park School third-graders and Promenade residents

TUXEDO PARK When children are in the third grade at Tuxedo Park School, they become buddies with the senior residents down the mountain at The Promenade at Tuxedo Place, with each benefitting from the ongoing interaction with one another.

Fresno State Band Member Killed in Accident

Home video captures Fresno State ’s Marching Band playing a pregame show on Saturday.   It was the moment Nathan Ray has been waiting 18 years for.   But that night, driving home after the game, Ray somehow drove off highway 168, rolled his car, and ran into a pole.   He died at the hospital. Ray's music teacher and a friend at Sierra High School , where Ray had just graduated from, say he was a ...