Fourth-grade teacher Karissa Prewitt measures the height of a structure built with toothpicks and marshmallows as students test their creations' resistance to earthquakes on a dish filled with Jell-O ...

Students at Orcutt Academy High School dropped eggs from 300 feet in the air as part of a class experiment on Tuesday morning. The experiments, which used seven-foot atmospheric weather balloons to ...

The storm that swamped this city three years ago also effectively swept away a public school system with a dismal record and faint prospects of getting better. Before Hurricane Katrina, educator John ...

Following Hurricane Katrina, a newly enacted state law identified schools that scored below the state average as failing and subject to takeover. The state took over 107 of New Orleans’ 120 public ...