1.3 million students in U.S. are homeless
New law to expand services for kids without homes
DATE: Sep 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education
Carolyn Thompson
In some U.S. schools, resistance to ending corporal punishment
Two licks with a wooden paddle in the principal’s office was the price 11-year-old Kaley Zacher of Dexter, Georgia, paid for ignoring warnings about falling behind in her school work. ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education
Some snow piles remain in Buffalo
Dirty ice piles still remain months after freak storm
DATE: Jul 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Kodak pictures new role as a startup landlord
Instead of selling land, company collecting rent
DATE: Jul 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Comedy center to include holographic jokesters
JAMESTOWN, New York – Did you hear the one about Bob Hope, Rodney Dangerfield and Andy Kauffman performing on the same stage?
It might not be a joke once the National Comedy Cente...
DATE: Jun 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Hall of fame honors six game-changers
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The first inductees into the new World Video Game Hall of Fame include “Pong,” the game that introduced millions to electronic play, “Doom,” which triggered a debate over t...
DATE: Jun 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Can boarding schools help public education?
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo’s chronically struggling school system is considering an idea gaining momentum in other cities: public boarding schools that put round-the-clock attention on students...
DATE: May 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education
Can public boarding schools solve educational ills?
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo’s chronically struggling school system is considering an idea gaining momentum in other cities: public boarding schools that put round-the-clock attention on students...
DATE: Apr 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education
Rocky first year for the new GED
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. – The number of people taking high school equivalency exams in the U.S. plummeted – and the percentage who passed fell, too – in the year after a revamped, Common Core-insp...
DATE: Apr 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education
Film highlights art from Works Progress Administration
Eighty years after the federal Works Progress Administration put unemployed artists to work creating sculptures and murals for post offices and courthouses comes this reminder from film make...
DATE: Mar 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts
Lacrosse team cancels game over rival’s Redskins name
BUFFALO, N.Y. – A suburban school district with numerous Native American students canceled a boys’ lacrosse game Friday against a district that is debating whether to do away with its Redski...
DATE: Mar 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Education
Here’s what gets toys into national hall of fame
Longevity, icon status and more are needed
DATE: Nov 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
