The North Face Jester Backpack Today's high school students are notoriously busy. When I was a teacher, some of my students got to school at 6 a.m. for sports practice, then went to class ...

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

Seattle-based entrepreneur and inventor of the modern backpack, Murray McCory, died last month at the age of 80.

If you told five-year-old me about the mental health challenges I would face starting in 6th ... grade through middle school was the worst bullying I've ever experienced. In my small grade of 20 ...

He brought lightweight packs to millions of students and transformed the way they carried their textbooks to school.

Though backpack bans are rare, school leaders across the state face a similar imperative to protect students from violence by any means necessary, oftentimes with limited resources at their disposal.

A student has been arrested after school officials said they found a weapon in their backpack at Holmes High School.It happened Friday morning when school officials said an administrator found a ...

My daughters, ages 8 and 6 at the time, needed a hand with a few of the tasks that required more dexterity. Once the projects had air-dried overnight, the kids treated their American Girl dolls to ...

Law enforcement said no threat was made to the school or its students. According to Schertz Police Department officials, a parent tipped off a school resource officer around 6:30 p.m. that one of ...

TOWNVILLE, S.C. — Just before dawn, Ava Olsen lugged her new backpack into ... which only went up to sixth grade. Instead, she enrolled at Riverside Middle School, where many of the other ...