The Hardin School District was recently selected as one of seven nationwide to join the "Get Schools Cooking" program, aimed at helping schools switch from heat and serve to made-from-scratch meals.
David Irby, a band director in Norman, Oklahoma, taught in public schools for nearly 25 years. His tweet saying he was resigning went viral. Why?
An Oklahoma state representative said the state’s superintendent shared pornographic materials with state lawmakers on Thursday, claiming the content was found in Oklahoma schools. State Rep. Mark McBride (R), one of several lawmakers who received the email from Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters, told The Hill that it included “pretty graphic material.” “If that’s going on…
We had many unpleasant teachers at school in Manchester, Massachusetts, the town where I grew up. Some were also woefully ignorant: I’ll never forget asking my year seven science teacher – in a class about microbes – if cholera was an example of bacteria. “Cholera? I’m not familiar with that one,” he said. But at the time – and this was about 1992 – we just accepted our teachers’ deficiencies and laughed at them all later.
ReutersFlorida’s universal school choice law, which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed on Monday, will undoubtedly be lumped in with the state’s other controversial education policies.It’ll be seen as one more salvo from a man who aspires to be America’s culture warrior-in-chief. It’ll be mentioned in the same breath as last year’s Parental Rights in Education Act (the so-called “don’t say gay” bill), this year’s possible expansion of that law, the rejection of a pilot program for an AP African-Americ
“A few in our school, on our Board, and in our community are choosing to terrorize our school community, instead of building our school and helping our students,” the resignation letter says.
Teacher charged with assaulting 5 students at Chesterfield school
Former teammates of Audrey Hale, who killed 6 in Nashville school shooting this week, say Hale recently began showing "stalkerish behavior."
A new survey, drawing notice in academia, shows that 1 in 4 applicants decided against applying to a college this year solely because of the politics in its state. The finding, long rumored in college admissions circles, has dire implications for some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions. Tulane University in Louisiana, Stanford in California,…
Following the deadly school shooting at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville Monday, one teacher has turned to social media to ask fellow educators what they do to prepare for emergencies such as an active shooter incident. Erica Rogers teaches preschoolers at a Baptist church in North Carolina and said for her, this latest school shooting seemed to hit closer to home given the parallels she saw in what unfolded in the Tennessee capital and her everyday life. "After learning about Monday's shooting in Nashville, it just kind of really triggered me," Rogers, 28, told "Good Morning America."
“Community and passionate young people are the start of change,” said Isabella Papa, a senior at the school and organizer of the walkout.
Top-tier consultants advise parents on their kids' coursework, extracurricular activities, and teacher bonds from the seventh grade, per Bloomberg.
On a rainy Friday afternoon at Santa Monica High School, ethnic studies teacher Marisa Silvestri introduced her class to the rap song “Kenji.” As singer Mike Shinoda narrated his family’s experiences in the Japanese American incarceration camps of World War II, Silvestri’s class fell silent. After the last bars of music filled the room, the […]
An expert told Insider that when schools focus on devices or hardware "we miss a lot of opportunity to work to prevent violence in our schools."
Millions of Americans are living in limbo as they await the Supreme Court's decision on Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, which would eliminate up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt per...
Police and the district are investigating the Nazi symbols of hate and antisemitism found drawn on walls in a classroom and gym locker room.
The Baker County Sheriff’s Office has announced the arrest of three 17-year-old students in connection with a violent classroom brawl that took place earlier this week at Baker County High School.
Harvard University will be offering a course on the Tagalog language for the first time in its history, starting in the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Last week, Harvard announced that its Department of South Asian Studies will be hiring three professors to teach Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesian and Thai. According to James Robson, a professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and director of the Asia Center, Harvard was able to secure a $1 million budget from the Asia Center to fund the Tagalog preceptor position.
While certain student loan borrowers can use the bankruptcy process to have their loans discharged, the process has been very cumbersome -- but this might change thanks to new guidelines. Is Your...
A video shared on social media shows the teacher arguing with students about the use of the racial slur.
The Florida House passed a bill Friday that would curtail the use of preferred pronouns amongst students and teachers that "do not correspond" with their sex.
