COLUMBIA — Ursula Harris was forced into an awkward conversation with her Richland County School District One fourth grader, and she’s demanding to know why it had to happen at all. Harris’ daughter ...

A Midlands woman is calling for an investigation of South Carolina teaching standards after students were given an assignment to pretend to be slaves. Now the school district is admitting the project ...

Although some instructors are phasing out journal-keeping assignments in favor of a class blog, a study has found that blogs are not inherently better instructional tools. Drew Foster, a doctoral ...

A California school is under fire for giving students a controversial homework assignment. KTLA reports that eighth-grade students at Hawthorne Middle School were required to keep a slave diary. The ...