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Mother wants answers after 3-year-old son with autism badly burned at school
A frustrated mother is shocked and demanding an explanation for a second-degree burn she thinks her 3-year-old son got at school. Naeema James said she noticed the injury on Aakil's back about 50 minutes after he got home from Pine Ridge Elementary School - and immediately went back.
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This hard-to-read font could be the ultimate study hack
A team of experts have developed a hard-to-read font specifically designed to help you remember things — aptly named Sans Forgetica.
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High school teacher in Virginia fired for refusing to call transgender student male pronouns
In a unanimous decision, the West Point Public School Board voted to terminate a teacher who refused to call a male transgender student by their preferred pronouns, according to WTVR. Peter Vlaming, who taught French class at West Point High School for nearly seven years, lost his job after a five-hour long public hearing he requested Thursday night.
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What Yeshiva Kids Are Actually Studying All Day
I have been researching ultra-Orthodox education for 15 years. Here’s what I’ve found.
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In German schools, opt out of religion at your own risk
Parents get to decide whether their children take part in religion classes, part of the school curriculum in Germany. But if they don't participate, their kids may suffer consequences, even with the law on their side.
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Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy at Santa Fe High
Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire. By Skip Hollandsworth.
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Strong Student-Adult Relationships Lower Suicide Attempts in High Schools
High schools where students are more connected to peers and adult staff, and share strong relationships with the same adults, have lower rates of suicide attempts, according to a new study published by the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
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Entire city 'to walk out' on strike over climate change fears
Young activists who have been taking part in school strikes over the climate crisis will be joined by adults when they walk out on Friday. The entire city of Oxford – and surrounding areas in Oxfordshire – will go on strike to draw attention to the environment and call for the government to act. Being hailed the UK’s ‘first general strike since 1926’, those taking part say that for the first time school children will strike together with adults to ‘take action against climate breakdown’.
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Kids in poor, urban schools learn just as much as others
Schools serving disadvantaged and minority children teach as much to their students as those serving more advantaged kids, according to a new nationwide study. The results may seem surprising, given that student test scores are normally higher in suburban and wealthier school districts than they are in urban districts serving mostly disadvant...
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They Didn't Back Down
For 17 years, the office of Jackie Jackson-Dean has featured a familiar ornament of welcome: a safe space sticker, adorned with stars, a rainbow motif and an implicit message. “I want these kids to be able to come to school,” she says, “and feel like at least one person here is safe to talk to.”
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California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
Students of California, go ahead: Hit that snooze button. A new law signed by governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday will push back public school start times in an effort to help kids get more sleep.
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Iowa Student Loan Pros and Cons - The Frugal Fellow
Iowa Student Loan is a non-profit private student loan lender. Loans with Iowa Student Loan are serviced by Aspire Servicing Center.
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A Charter School Gets Canceled for Wanting to Teach Indigenous History
The case has it all: white-centrism, the "school choice" debate, and the obscene way in which North Carolina is failing its students.
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School 'backs down' over parent's assembly fight
Parents Lee and Lizianne Harris said their children were unhappy watching Bible stories.
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When is Spring Break 2020 in Palm Beach County Florida?
Spring Break 2020 in Palm Beach County Florida is just around the corner. Find out what week spring break will be taking place in 2020.
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CMSD Will Feed Kids While Schools Are Closed
Young people in the Cleveland area will have access to three free meals a day during the extended spring break that begins next week. Cleveland Metropolitan School District CEO Eric Gordon said Friday that the district will host 22 sites where any person under the age of 18 can pick up a two-meal package containing breakfast and lunch. The service will operate between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., Monday-Friday.
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Palm Beach County School Calendar for 2020-2021
View the 2020 to 2021 Palm Beach County School Calendar, NO SCHOOL holidays, NO SCHOOL teacher workdays along with quarterly/ trimester start and end dates
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With remote schooling comes a steep learning curve
I’ve learned that our teachers and school administrators in Brockton are a lot better prepared for online learning than they were back in March. I’ve also learned that for all of their efforts, they’re not quite ready for the challenges of remote schooling. And neither am I.
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Why we must raise a generation of readers
It’s easy for me to say that being a reader has formed the foundation for my life. My mother, in lieu of having a multitude of books on hand when we were small, would recite the same nursery rhymes to us over and over again only to find that we actually preferred her versions to those written down.
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Simone B and the Magical Mirror – new children’s book published
Simone B and the Magical Mirror by Dr. Denita S. Bottoms is a motivational self-help book for primary school-age girls.
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