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Mother: Children Bullied At School For Not Being Christian
A frustrated Powell County mother said she's at her wit's end because of how her children are being treated at Stanton Elementary. She told LEX 18 that for two years, students and teachers have bullied her children for not being Christian.
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Mother sues school district over voicemail mocking special needs daughter
A Pennsylvania mother is suing a local school district, claiming teachers mocked her daughter, who has disabilities. Those are some of the insults that were allegedly left in a voicemail on Beth Suhon's phone. The voices on the other end allegedly are her daughter’s former Claysville Elementary School teachers..
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Teens who were severely bullied as children at higher risk of suicidal thoughts, mental health issue
Teens who were severely bullied as children by peers are at higher risk of mental health issues, including suicidal thoughts and behaviours, according to new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). "Our findings showed a general tendency, in about 15% of the children, of being exposed to the most severe levels of victimization from the beginning of their education until the transition to high school," writes Dr. Marie-Claude Geoffroy, McGill Group for Suicide Studies, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, with coauthors.
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Instead of detention, these students get meditation
Into a room of pillows and lavender, an elementary school student walks, enraged. He's just been made fun of by another student, an altercation that turned to pushing and name-calling. But rather than detention or the principal's office, his teacher sent him here, to Robert W. Coleman Elementary School's meditation room.
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Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery's 'Hard History'
"In the ways that we teach and learn about the history of American slavery," write the authors of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "the nation needs an intervention." This new report, titled Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, is meant to be that intervention: a resource for teachers who are eager to help their students better understand slavery — not as some "peculiar institution" but as the blood-soaked bedrock on which the United States was built.
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The business school where students graduate with a ready-made network
Networking and business go hand-in-hand, but how do you go about building a network to begin with?
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Utah mom upset after school tells 6th graders they can’t say no when asked to dance
When Natalie Richard’s sixth-grade daughter told her she couldn’t say “no” if a boy asked her to dance at Kanesville Elementary’s Valentine’s Day dance, she didn’t believe it at first. “Oh no, no honey," Richard said of her reply. "You guys are misunderstanding again. That’s not how it is."
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A former Utah State University student described her rape and the school’s response on Facebook. Now the school is investigating.
Utah State University’s president assured students Friday that there will be a thorough investigation after several former students posted allegations this week on social media of systemic sexual violence and harassment within its music program — including a report that a piano faculty instructor raped a student in 2009.
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Police Investigate after Student Writes Essay from White Supremacist’s Perspective
A Tracy student wrote a controversial essay on racism that prompted an investigation by law enforcement. The academic decathlon student was preparing for an upcoming debate and was given an open-ended writing prompt. The Director of Student Services at Tracy Unified School District, Troy Brown, said the students had "to write opposing viewpoints to a topic."
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Before they went on strike, West Virginia teachers packed bags to make sure kids didn't go hungry
Teachers in West Virginia are striking for higher wages and better benefits, but not at the expense of hungry students. In West Virginia almost one in four children are in poverty. For many of them, free or reduced-price school breakfasts and lunches are their main meals of the day. Some schools even run Friday pantry programs to feed students through the weekend.
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Walkout Wednesday: 17-minute student protests to mark 17 school shooting deaths
Students at an estimated 3,000 schools and universities across the United States are expected to stage a 17-minute walkout on Wednesday morning to protest about government inaction on preventing school shootings and everyday gun violence. The protest marks a month to the day since the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, which left 17 people dead. The walkouts are supposed to last 17 minutes in tribute to each of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas victims.
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Why American Students Haven't Gotten Better at Reading in 20 Years
Schools usually focus on teaching comprehension skills instead of general knowledge—even though education researchers know better.
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German police fine parents at airport for taking children out of school early | DW | 21.05.2018
Police at a German airport have fined parents for going on vacation before the official start of school holidays. School attendance is compulsory in Germany.
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After High School Bans Valedictorian's Speech For Mentioning Parkland Shooting, He Delivers It With A Bullhorn
Denied permission to speak at his own graduation, a young valedictorian from Covington, Kentucky, thought of an unconventional way to do what needed to be done. Christian Bales, a Holy Cross High School student, intended to mention Marjory Stoneman Douglas students during the Holy Cross graduation ceremony held on Friday. Deeming his speech “too political” and “inconsistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church,” the school prohibited Bales, as well as his classmate...
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When teachers think differently about themselves as math learners, students benefit
Like a lot of students, many elementary school teachers dread math class. But, according to a new study from researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education, when teachers reexamine how they were taught math and their perceptions of their ability, student test scores and attitudes about math dramatically improve.
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Japanese medical school allegedly rigged exams to keep women out
The Education Minister of Japan has condemned gender discrimination following reports that Tokyo Medical University allegedly rigged entrance exam scores to lower the ratio of female students.
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When students were bullied because of dirty clothes, a principal installed a free laundromat at school
The teenage girl screamed and fought with the school security officer when he tried to check her bag. "The police later told me she had dirty clothes in her bag because she was homeless and didn't want anyone to know," Akbar Cook, the principal of West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, told CNN. "She was fighting for her pride." Cook said many students at West Side faced humiliation because they didn't have anything clean to wear.
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Nearly 6,000 teachers on strike as contract battles continue
Four major school districts in Western Washington have canceled class for the first day of school Wednesday – Puyallup, Tukwila, Tumwater and Centralia. Five other school districts in Washington State are also on strike: Battle Ground, Evergreen, Longview, Standwood-Camano and Washougal. Negotiations for teacher pay raises continue to go back-and-forth between the districts and teachers’ unions, and educators are leaving classrooms empty.
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Saving the Children | The Ragged Writer
Providing dignity and basic need support in a Harrisburg area school district.
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Adapting the Library for Active Learning
The library is the academic heart of a school, but just as education is changing, so too is the library. No longer just a place to check out books and build research skills, campus libraries have evolved into a more multi-dimensional space.
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