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Black Students
The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn Ph.D.s
The Atlantic - Adam Harris
In more than a dozen academic fields—largely STEM related—not a single black student earned a doctoral degree in 2017. Some trends in higher education move up and down—ebbing and flowing with the economy
Forbesadded this to Technology
Students
Think You Want To Be A Teacher? Read This First
Forbes - Natalie Wexler
How can we equip new teachers to succeed? Guide aspiring teachers to the best training programs. Even better, give teachers crucial information about the learning process that even the best programs don’t
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TV Stations
4-Year-Old Girl Dies in Car, Parents Blame School
theepochtimes.com - Daniel Holl
A four-year-old girl died from being left alone for hours in her family’s hot car on April 8 in Hunan Province, China. The girl, nicknamed Qi Qi, was …
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FedEx
Cops burn bad parking job with coloring book lesson on staying inside the lines
Fox News - Gary Gastelu
All you really need to know you learned in kindergarten…including how to park a car. At least that’s the philosophy of one Southlake, Tex., police officer who came up with an original way to teach a lesson
The Atlanticadded this to Education
Columbine
High School Was Different Before Columbine
The Atlantic - Isabel Fattal
The year 1999 is, for many, a bright line dividing two divergent teen experiences. Jake Wakefield, who graduated from high school in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 2003, recalls that April 20 was the date
Gloria Kimadded this to Career
ADHD
More screen time could mean higher risk of ADHD and behavioral problems in pre-school kids
USA TODAY
A new study has found toddlers who spend two hours or more staring at screens on a daily basis are more likely to behave badly or have ADHD.
Newsdayadded this to Newsday
Employment
Long Beach Middle School teacher fired for harming students files appeal
newsday.com - By Joie Tyrrell
The Long Beach Middle School teacher who was fired earlier this month after a state hearing officer found she harmed her severely disabled students …
ABC News
Raccoons
Wayward raccoon leads to closing of elementary school
ABC News - The Associated Press
Wildlife experts are hunting for a wayward raccoon that broke into a Cincinnati elementary school and caused classes to be moved and then …
Conservative View
Minneapolis Public School Has Kids Color Pictures Of Ilhan Omar. Public Schools Haven't Been So Kind About Trump.
dailywire.com - Amanda Prestigiacomo
Public school students in Minnesota are being instructed to write reports on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and color photos of the controversial Democrat, a …
Education Reform
Stop the Revolving Door of School Reform
realcleareducation.com - Editorial Board
With so many players pulling schools in so many directions, education reform here will never move forward under the current framework. The latest …
Chicago Sun-Timesadded this to Chicago News
Parenting Teens
EDITORIAL: What are we to make of a big crowd of unruly teenagers?
suntimes.com - Sun-Times Editorials
The last day of school is June 20. That gives Chicago two months to figure out how to avoid a summer vacation repeat of the spring break mayhem that …
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Conservative View
BIAS: You'll Shake Your Head at the Difference Between Public School's Treatment of Ilhan Omar vs. Trump
redstate.com - Posted at 9:21 pm on April 18, 2019 by Alex Parker
With an anti-Semitic Q that even Bill Maher’s observed, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has given people a lot not to like (here, here, and here). But not …
Raccoons
2 people bitten by raccoons in the Tri-State this week
local12.com - Elaine Kong, WKRC
CINCINNATI (WKRC) -Two people were injured in the past week due to the wild animals. South Avondale Elementary School shut down for the day Thursday …
Bustleadded this to Bustle
Mother's Day
17 Personalized Gifts For Mother's Day 2019
Bustle - Megan Grant
Mother's Day is Sunday, May 12, which means it's time to treat Mom to something special. Flowers are nice. Chocolate is sweet. But if you really want …
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Ontario
Does class size matter? Many teachers are adamant it is crucial
The Globe and Mail - Caroline Alphonso
In one of her high-school math classes of 18 students this semester, teacher Karen Ebanks has time to glance over shoulders, guide stragglers back onto the path of understanding fractions, lead them to
The Washington Post
GI Bill
Some colleges receiving the most GI benefits spend the least on educating veterans, report says
The Washington Post - By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
The federal government spends billions of dollars on tuition benefits for men and women who serve in the U.S. military, but some colleges that rely on that money use very little of it to educate veterans,
Mentoring
Medical & Bioscience Education Seminar Series
stanford.edu - med.stanford.edu
The Medical & Bioscience Education Seminar Series offers opportunities for the Stanford Medicine community to learn about educational scholarship and …
6 Majors Were Spared the Ax at Stevens Point. But the Damage Might Be Done.
chronicle.com - Terry Nguyen
Photo Illustration by Ron Coddington Professors from the department of geography and geology at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point meet each …
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Columbine High School
Listen: What is it like being a current Columbine High School student?
Audioburst - Newsradio 950 WWJ
"In the almost twenty years since twelve students and a teacher were killed at Columbine. More than one hundred twenty people have died in school …
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Students
Helping at-risk students succeed in school by using personalized attention
hechingerreport.org
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Earlier this year, Ricketa Bluford, a teacher at the Elk Grove campus of the Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy (SAVA), …
Patch
NYPD
Teacher From LI Arrested For Molesting 11-Year-Old Student: NYPD
Patch - Alex Costello
A Flatbush teacher stands accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old student, according to police and reports. PS 244 teacher Daniel Santiago, 29, of …
Chilliwack, BC
Chilliwack students take the lead as mental health advocates
theprogress.com - Jessica Peters
There are nearly 100 new mental health advocates in Chilliwack today. They’re motivated to help their peers, educate their families and ask for better …
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Georgetown University
The First Reparations Attempt at an American College Comes From Its Students
The Atlantic - Saahil Desai
Georgetown’s students voted to tax themselves to pay descendants of enslaved people, instead of waiting for the school to do something. When sordid revelations surfaced in recent years of how the sale
ABC News
Flu
Two-wave US flu season is now the longest in a decade
ABC News - By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
Three months ago, this flu season was shaping up to be short and mild in the U.S. But a surprising second viral wave has made it the longest in 10 …
AOL
Mossimo Giannulli
Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli to be audited by IRS over college admissions scandal
AOL - Laura Galvan
Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli are set to be audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). An exclusive source revealed to Us Weekly, that the couple allegedly wrote off William “Rick” Singer’s scam
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Jeremy Corbyn
One in five teachers using own money for school supplies – report
The Guardian - Richard Adams Education editor
Staff also buying breakfasts, winter coats and soap for poor pupils, says teaching union One in five teachers are spending their own money on classroom supplies, while nearly half say they buy food, clothes
twowatchesadded this to International Education and Eclectic Sources of Insight
Nova Scotia
New part-time B.Ed. program aims to tackle looming rural teacher shortage
cbc.ca - CBC News ·
A new part-time bachelor of education program aimed at people with full-time jobs in other fields will begin in September, part of an effort to …
Chicago Sun-Timesadded this to Chicago News
Chicago Public Schools
Mom's 'desperate pleas' ignored before 4th-grader attempted suicide:
suntimes.com - Mitchell Armentrout
Two months after her 11-year-old son tried to hang himself with a bed sheet, a South Side mother has filed a federal lawsuit against the Chicago …
Tony Luchiniadded this to Teaching
Teaching
Recruiting Washington Teachers Helps High School Students Explore Careers in Teaching
newamerica.org
Washington, like many states across the country, is experiencing multiple teacher shortages. We have a shortage of fully certified teachers; a …
Everett, WA
North Sound school closed after smoke fills building
kiro7.com - By: KIRO 7 News Staff
Loading... MONROE, Wash. - The Monroe School District closed Fryelands Elementary School after smoke filled the building Thursday morning. School …