In Louisiana, police arrested Belinda Gail Fondren, 52, for forging doctor's notes that she sold to students skipping school. The notes were $20/each and she reportedly sold 14 of them before getting nabbed. She had been signing the name of a physician who previously employed her. Fondren was caught after the Vernon Parish School Board ...

Everyone needs a cheese tube.  Valerie Schremp Hahn is a features reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but little did she know that her daughter would be making headlines this week. On Tuesday, Hahn's 9-year-old daughter took an old lip bal... ...

Google publicly disclosed its acquisition of homework helper app Socratic in an announcement this week, detailing the added support for the company’s A.I. technology and its relaunch on iOS. The acquisition apparently flew under the radar — Google says it bought the app last year. According to one founder’s LinkedIn update, that was in March ...

Just in time for the new school year, Google’s educational arm, Google for Education, today announced the launch of new tools aimed at helping teachers fight plagiarism. The company this morning is unveiling Assignments, an updated version of the software previously known as CourseKit, which will ship with new features that help instructors check students’ ...

This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week. Doodling can be a great way to get the creative juices flowing, to help concentrate during class, or to **** time when you're done ta... ...

It's a truth universally acknowledged by all current and former students that homework *****. A lot.  After a long, grueling day of school, most kids have negative levels motivation left to do even more work. It's definitely not encouraging to h... ...

Rather than soak thru pages and make reading the flipside of whatever I just took notes on annoying to read, these dry highlighters are just great.

Mostly, these days, I use highlighters when reviewing contracts, however, I fell in love with these wax ones during my second or third run at college. Dry highlighters didn't ...

January and February are seriously soul-*******. Winter months after the holidays but before spring always feel like a drag, and getting back (and staying) in the swing of things at work or school can be draining. A new backpack may be able to lift y... ...

Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, just started a new job this week. She's an art teacher at a Christian school that makes job candidates sign a pledge not to engage in homosexual activity. *** kids, you're not welcome either.

The Pences are nothing if not consistent. Consistently horrible.

Huffington Post's Rebecca Klein reports ...

Just when you thought that the Chinese government's extensive surveillance of the country's citizens couldn't get any creepier or more intrusive, Xi Jingping slyly raises an eyebrow and asks the west to hold his Tsingtao:

From The Epoch Times:

In China’s latest quest to build an all-seeing surveillance state, schools have become part of the ...