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Five dead in La Loche, Canada, school shooting
At least two people were killed after a shooting Friday afternoon at a rural Canadian school.
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States consider allowing kids to learn coding instead of foreign languages
A former Yahoo executive turned Florida lawmaker is proposing allowing students to take computer science courses as an alternative to two required foreign language classes. But the proposal has been controversial with legislators and advocates for coding, who say foreign languages remain valuable.
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Alarm over lead found in drinking water at US schools
Several schools across the US have either discovered or acted upon evidence of high levels of lead in their drinking water in the wake of the crisis in Flint, Michigan, with one leading expert warning the cases could mark “the tip of the iceberg”. Yanna Lambrinidou, who is an affiliate faculty member in science, technology and society at Virginia Tech, the university that helped uncover the extremely elevated levels of lead in Flint...
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No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
Anton Oberländer is a persuasive speaker. Last year, when he and a group of friends were short of cash for a camping trip to Cornwall, he managed to talk Germany’s national rail operator into handing them some free tickets. So impressed was the management with his chutzpah that they invited him back to give a motivational speech to 200 of their employees. Anton, it should be pointed out, is 14 years old.
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Crocodiles let loose in Australian school by vandals
Vandals set three saltwater crocodiles loose in an Australian school office on Sunday. CCTV footage shows the crocodiles being pushed through a broken window at Taminmin College, located in the Northern Territory town of Humpty Doo. A gang of masked intruders then vandalises the office. Wildlife rangers who captured the reptiles said they were in poor health and had their mouths taped up. The largest crocodile was 2m long. It is not known why they were let loose in the school.
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California Today: Vaccinate Schoolchildren or Keep Them Home
With the new school year underway, California is cracking down on parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. Since a new law took effect in July, no longer will a child be able to attend class unimmunized on the basis of a parent’s objections. In the past, parents could sidestep vaccine mandates by declaring that the injections were contrary to their religious or personal beliefs. This occurred despite overwhelming evidence from doctors and public health officials that they are safe and effective in preventing infectious diseases.
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High school rethinks decision to suspend player for national anthem protest
Protest at Worcester, Mass., school was one of several on the high school level over the weekend.
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Christian fundamentalist schools ‘performed blood curdling exorcisms on children’
Exclusive investigation reveals serious concerns about how children taught at Accelerated Christian Education in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s were treated, as ex-pupils claim exorcisms were performed on children, pupils were beaten in religious ceremonies and girls were ‘groomed’ for marriage to older men.
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Villain theme day causes costume controversy at Bartlett High School
Some parents are outraged after they said a school's theme day pushed the envelope a little too far in their eyes. Homecoming week was supposed to be full of fun, but not everyone is laughing after pictures of some pretty inappropriate villains hit social media. Wednesday started as Villain Day at Bartlett High, and for some things quickly turned as dark as the day’s theme.
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Tennessee school counselor convinces student to hand over gun
A middle-school counselor in Tennessee is being called a hero after talking a teenager into handing over a loaded handgun. Media outlets report that a 14-year-old boy went to Sycamore Middle School Wednesday asking to speak with counselor Molly Hudgens. Authorities say he told her he was having problems and was going to kill teachers and a police officer, but no students; he told her she was the only one who could talk him out of it. And so she did.
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Hampton teen arrested for soliciting clown to kill teacher
A 13-year-old Hampton girl is in police custody for allegedly reaching out to a person on social media to kill one of her teachers. Police say the person she contacted was using a clown image as their profile picture. She allegedly reached out to this person to murder a teacher at Davis Middle School. “The profile that she contacted actually was using a clown as a profile picture and so using a clown related alias,” Officer Ashley Jenrette of Hampton Police said.
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Classrooms need more male teachers, charity says
England's classrooms need more male teachers, an education charity says, as government figures show a continued gender gap in the profession. Department for Education statistics show 26% of teachers in England are men - accounting for 38% of secondary and 15% of primary school teachers. To mark World Teachers' Day, the charity Teach First is urging more men to consider a career in the sector. It says the profession should reflect the make-up of the classroom.
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Sweden: The Swedish flag was banned at elementary school by the principal
The students at the Swedish elementary school Söndrumsskolan got a public message from the school principal saying that all use of the swedish flag is prohibited. – We want to make sure the students do not offend anyone using the flag, principal Hans Åkerman told Nyheter Idag.
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Ohio child cancer survivor kills herself over bullying
The relentless bullying became too much to handle for an 11-year-old girl with a "crooked" smile, her mother said. At 3 years old, Bethany Thompson was diagnosed with a brain tumor and battled through radiation treatments. Though cancer-free since 2008, treatment caused nerve damage that changed Bethany's smile. That, and her curly hair, led to bullying, said Bethany's mother, Wendy Feucht.
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Literacy Not A Right For Detroit School Kids According To State
Detroit school children have no fundamental right to literacy, according to Gov. Rick Snyder’s attorneys, in the midst of a suit claiming the poor reading skills of Detroit students at five schools, deplorable building conditions, and lack of basic classroom necessities are the fault of the state. A California public interest law firm is representing seven Detroit public school students who believe the education they are getting is substandard and essentially want the courts to rule that literacy is a fundamental constitutional right reports WWJ legal analyst Charlie Langton.
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Faith school push will not 'help results' - BBC News
Education levels will not rise if faith schools in England take more pupils on religious grounds, a report says.
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BEST COUNTRY TO STUDY MBBS FOR INDIAN STUDENTS
Most intelligent Indian high school graduates do not get into government medical universities, as such try to pursue their goals by getting into private medical universities in India or studying MBBS abroad.
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Student forced to pee in bucket wins $1.25M in lawsuit
A school district was order to pay $1.25 million to student who was forced to urinate in a bucket after she was denied a bathroom break.
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'You are welcome here' - School for refugees plastered with signs
The International Community School has been a fixture in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur for 15 years. It's a public charter school where refugee children learn side by side neighborhood kids. On Monday, when students arrived at school, they were greeted by signs. Dozens and dozens of them planted along the sidewalks. "You are welcome here," said one. "You are loved," said another.
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£100,000 public money given to suspected illegal faith schools
Suspected illegal schools have been awarded more than £100,000 in public funds despite being flagged on a government watch list, The Independent can reveal. The Big Lottery Fund has awarded £116,750 to seven ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools that the Department for Education has identified as suspected illegal schools.
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