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For many, it's just common sense. The more a student's family is engaged in their child's learning and in the improvement of their child's school, the better off the student and the school.

Third-grade students from Stedwick Elementary School in Gaithersburg, Md., spent a year writing and producing an original opera, coming up with everything from the songs to the script to the stage design all without the help of adults.

But Mario, 8, has noticed something about these and many of the other books he encounters in his classroom at Bayard Taylor Elementary here: most of the main characters are white. "I see a lot of people that don't have a lot of color," he said.

Tweet I recently found a video of 1st graders using the iPad to visualize a poem that their teacher read to them. After students drew what they imagined, they got into pairs and explained their drawings to a partner. The teacher also circulated to listen and to ask deeper questions ...

If lawmakers don't act to head off a series of automatic spending cuts, states and districts around the country will feel a squeeze-but some may be more heavily impacted than others, according to an analysis released today by the American Association of School Administrators.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Five states were to announce Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in some schools starting in 2013.

CHICAGO -- The now familiar term "Asperger's disorder" is being dropped. And abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD. But "dyslexia" and other learning disorders remain. The revisions come in the first major rewrite in nearly 20 years of the diagnostic guide used by the nation's psychiatrists.