NASA astronaut returns home to Baldwin to inspire local students
NASA Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli returned to Baldwin to collaborate with students at the elementary school and high school she attended.
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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?
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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…
- The Daily Beast
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Preschool teacher shares what she carries in case of school shooting
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."
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Teacher charged with assaulting 5 students at Chesterfield school
Teacher charged with assaulting 5 students at Chesterfield school
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Florida Parent Files Complaint To Stop Teachers From Showing The ‘Ruby Bridges’ Movie In School
A Florida school has banned Disney’s Ruby Bridges film. The movie, about the first Black student to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans, was pulled after a parent argued the film would teach their children about the heinousness of racism.
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One in four college applicants avoids entire states for political reasons
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,…
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Why California Schools Are Adding Hundreds of Ethnic Studies Classes
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 […]
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Meet a teacher who paid his student loans for 6 more years than he needed to qualify for debt cancellation. Now he can't get his money back.
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Native Graduates Have the Right to Wear Eagle Feathers, Tribal Regalia
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For Black Athletes, March Madness Has Much Higher Stakes
If you watch the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 Men’s basketball tournament for pure sports entertainment, fine. If you watch to cheer your alma mater, I understand. If you watch because on any given night, a Lilliputian like Florida Atlantic can topple a Tennessee and Kansas State on its way to the Final Four, I get it as an ex-sportswriter.