Students at an upstate New York high school were given a writing assignment about whether Derek Chauvin should be granted a new trial over the murder of George Floyd because of questions about one of ...

The district superintendent said the assignment was meant to show students "just how horrible slavery was and to gain empathy" for enslaved people Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team ...

A class assignment at a Dallas high school asking students to potentially defend the suspected Kenosha, Wisconsin, shooter as a hero is drawing complaints from students and parents. The two-part ...

A growing number of school districts are trying to break up concentrations of poverty on their campuses by taking students’ family income into consideration in school assignments. Some of the ...

The amount of homework teachers are assigning in many districts has declined over the past few years. And a deeper dive shows that educators in high-poverty school systems are less likely to give out ...

Shallowater High School in Lubbock County, Texas, is catching heat for a "chivalry" assignment that instructed female members of a class to "obey any reasonable request of a male" for the entire day.

After a little boy was absent for his first day of school, he was welcomed back to class with an unusual homework assignment. Now, the boy’s parents cannot help but wonder if the assignment was an ...

The DeKalb County School District is overhauling its student assignment project, opting to address school overcrowding issues before moving to under-enrollment. Officials adjusted the strategy after ...

“This is some crazy s--- overall and also on a technical level,” said a Skiatook High School student’s mother Brian Anthony Hernandez joined PEOPLE in 2023. He began working as a Staff Editor on the ...

A photo of a Mississippi middle-school teacher's writing assignment on slavery has drawn heavy criticism online, with many saying the exercise trivialized the racist institution. Steven Hampton, the ...

CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- The Wake County School System is considering bringing back the controversial student assignment "node" system. They say some schools are simply too crowded. The idea isn't new.