Meet Sean Andrade, a 15-year-old senior with cerebral palsy and autism who has never let his disabilities hold him back. Despite being too young to drive or vote, Sean will graduate this spring as Salutatorian at Sewanhaka High School and become one of the youngest freshmen on a college campus this fall at Stony Brook University.
Nashville Police Department via ReutersNashville school shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale was being treated for an unspecified emotional disorder before Monday’s massacre at a private Christian school—a medical condition Hale’s parents thought should’ve disqualified Hale from owning weapons at all, police revealed Tuesday.Despite the disorder, cops said Hale, 28, was able to legally build up an arsenal of seven guns that were kept hidden at home—three of which were used to mow down six people at The
Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett (R) said there’s no way to “fix” gun violence, after a shooter killed three children and three adults at an elementary school in his home state on Monday. “It’s a horrible, horrible situation,” Burchett told reporters. “And we’re not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals.” “My daddy fought in…
More than a dozen Lake Brantley High School seniors missed their prom and parents are demanding an apology from the school.
A security consultant shares the tips that he's gathered about school shootings from law enforcement, paramedics, and other experts.
As news of the elementary school shooting at the Covenant School in suburban Nashville unfolded, local TV reporter Hannah McDonald was not only trying to report impartially on a local tragedy that took the lives of three students and three adults, she was trying to keep track of more personal developments. She later shared the […]
Akino Imanaka says having zero classmates on her tiny island "was a little lonely," but while she's headed for the mainland, her hometown is left to face oblivion.
The teacher is reported to have described some students as lazy and used obscenities to describe other children.
“We’re not in a battle. We’re in a war,” United Faculty of Florida President Andrew Gothard said. “This didn’t start yesterday, and it’s not going to end tomorrow.”
“We believe the School District’s actions silenced Olivia’s right to freely express their gender identity,” lawyer says.
While covering a deadly school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, a local reporter said that she is also a survivor of a school shooting.
Studies show implicit bias causes racial disparities in student achievement, learning opportunities and discipline that especially harm Black kids.
A ban on race-conscious admissions practices in selective colleges would threaten the racial and ethnic diversity of their student bodies, according to a new analysis from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW). The new report comes ahead of the Supreme Court’s high-stakes decision on discrimination cases brought against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, whose affirmative action policies are accused of hurting Asian and Asian American applicants. CEW researchers analyzed six different admissions models and their possible impact on racial and socioeconomic diversity across selective colleges.
Fairfax County Public Schools is considering a change to its dress code that would ban pajamas and sleepwear in classrooms, as well as prohibit any clothes that "expose underwear."
The victims included a 9-year-old who loved to perform, a kind custodian and a school leader determined to help all students succeed.
Even though the Disney film “Ruby Bridges” has been shown during Black History Month in Florida’s Pinellas County for years, it was recently pulled because a parent was worried that it would teach white children about the racism that Black children faced.
Sixty-one students have died by suicide over the past five years at India’s premier institutions of higher education, government data show.
Rachel Garlinghouse says students should never tell a professor "you're unfair" or "I don't need this class." Those phrases tick off most professors.
People who make education policy and determine where to allocate funding claim they know what families want from public schools. This past admissions season in New York City, I had the privilege of working with several community organizations to help parents of students in grades pre-K through high school apply to traditional public, public charter, […]
Mexico’s president on Monday defended the apparent insertion of what teachers have long considered grammatical errors into school textbooks. Copies of the new textbooks posted on social media show them using words like “dijistes,” long considered an incorrect or uneducated way of saying “dijiste,” meaning “you said.” “It is important to make students conscious of the fact that there are different ways of speaking, in order to avoid judgements based on ways of speaking,” according to an insert instruction to teachers in what appears to be an early grade-school textbook.
Warren wants Biden to take student-debt relief a step further by cracking down on the programs that harm borrowers, in a letter exclusive to Insider.
