Is your child's backpack making the grade?
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NEW YORK  - With a new school year underway, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is reminding parents that wearing backpacks improperly or ones that are too heavy put children at increased risk for back injuries and muscle strain.
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Schools are looking to use an increasingly popular way to analyzing test scores, which tracks the progress of students as they move from grade to grade.
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By Michaela Saunders, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 19--Does having their own computers during the day help elementary students become better writers? Or better understand what they read?   Omaha Public Schools began a program to test those questions last year.
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The nation's schools, under fire for unhealthy school lunches, well-stocked vending machines and phys ed cuts, may actually do a better job than parents in keeping children fit and trim. A study found that 5- and 6-year-olds gained more weight over the summer than during the school year, casting doubt on the assumption that kids are more active during summer vacation.
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Technological skills, like maneuvering a mouse, are becoming part of childâs developmental milestones.
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Teachers say they want hard evidence that plans to give all parents regular electronic reports on their child's progress will not increase workload
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Why are we so afraid of our children moving back in while they get on their feet? A new report says college grads from a peak "boomerang" year were doing just fine a decade later
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Yep, your 7-year-old knows more than you Children are becoming tech-savvy from a younger age, a new study has discovered.â¦
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Can "clearer" school tables tell us what we need to know, the BBC's Mike Baker asks.
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Schools are under orders to make sure no child is left behind, but that can be tough to do when so many children are moving. At least four in 10 students change schools one or more times by the time they are 17, on top of their normal progression from elementary and middle schools to high school.
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Designed for schoolchildren in developing countries, these inexpensive, stripped-down portables are drawing lots of interest from the gadget set.
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Rhonda Sanders received an eye-opening letter from her daughter's school three years ago: At age 10, her 5-foot, 137-pound child was heavier than 98 percent of her peers.
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A startling number of parents may be in denial about their youngsters' weight.
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As American children grow fatter and more out of shape, physical education classes are being found wanting. Experts say there's little accountability for P.E. teachers in most schools. They say the classes are often poorly run, and students don't spend much time in them anyway.
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The more overweight a child, the more likely he or she is to be absent from school, a new report suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Screening toddlers for problems in their language development may help reduce their need for special education once they start school, a new study suggests.
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Maryland school officials proudly noted last week that more than 90 percent of students in the Class of 2009 expected to earn a diploma had passed one of four tests required to graduate. But testing data provided to The Washington Post by local school systems indicate that the number of students who...