Icphusa.org

(CNS News) – The public schools in Washington, D.C., spent $29,349 per pupil in the 2010-2011 school year, according to the latest data from National Center for Education Statistics, but in 2013 fully 83 percent of the eighth graders in these schools...

About 8% of teachers leave the field each year, due to long workdays, low salaries and challenging conditions. Some predict a gap of 112,000 teachers by 2018. Some states are lowering the bar for teaching jobs. But there are plenty of good ideas about...

This week: On Wednesday, Jan. 18, New York Nonprofit Media will host Nonprofit BoardCon which will bring together board members, executive directors and other senior leaders from nonprofits across New York to discuss methods and strategies to collaborate...

The following article is part of an AlterNet series, Hard Times, USA, which shines a light on poverty in America. Click here for other stories in the series. Shakieta Smith needed a place to go. The homeless mother of two called a Washington, DC shelter...

Teen readers have probably already heard buzz about E. Lockhart’s much-anticipated We Were Liars and Danielle Paige’s revisionist take on Frank L. Baum’s Wizard of Oz. But that’s not all. The following fiction and nonfiction titles...