Wednesday is the 18th annual [See You at the Pole][1] day, which encourages students to stand outside their public schools and pray around the flagpole.According to their [Web site][1], about 3 million kids from 50 states and more than 20 countries gather each year to pray around the flagpole ...

So, today is [CASA Family Day][1], which encourages families to eat dinner together. [ CASA][2], the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at [Columbia University][3] does Family Day to encourage parents to talk to their kids about substance abuse. A [ study][4] by CASA says kids who ...

Twelve Lawrence students were named National Merit Scholar semi-finalists today.About 16,000 high school students nationwide were named semi-finalists for the prestigious scholarship, which pays about $2,500 and also qualifies the students for much larger scholarships from the universities they ...

As a wee boy, I had many different ways of getting to school. Whether it was in the back seat of the family station wagon, on my sweet first bike, on a crowded school bus or in my own car, I usually got to school on time.But in other parts of the world, getting to school can be perilous, ...

Several of my former hometowns are in the news today, [ as public school students in Chicago staged a boycott of Chicago Public Schools on Tuesday's first day of school,][1] in favor of enrolling at a wealthy school district in the North Shore Suburbs.More than 1,000 elementary school students ...

We had a [front-page story today][1] about Texas teachers who are allowed to bring guns to school.It looks like the days of rapping knuckles with a ruler are over.Students may think twice when teachers with holsters are patrolling the halls.The town of Harrold, which is located 30 minutes from ...