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Walkout teachers now in a drive to win U.S. statehouse posts

Last September, school speech therapist Kathy Hoffman was settling into the new academic year, working with youngsters in her small classroom behind a playground at Sahuaro Ranch Elementary ...

DATE: Oct 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education

Teacher candidacies surge in wake of spring walkouts

The spring of teacher uprisings has given way to summer, but these are anything but lazy days for educators continuing the fight through their own election campaigns. Hundreds of ...

DATE: Aug 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education

Schools eye facial recognition technology to boost security

LOCKPORT, N.Y. – The surveillance system that has kept watch on students entering Lockport schools for over a decade is getting a novel upgrade. Facial recognition technology soon will check...

DATE: Jul 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education

Schools adept at shoring up security at any hint of danger

It’s a familiar scenario: A school official, hearing about a potential danger that’s too close for comfort, locks down the building. A nearby bank may have been robbed. Officers might be ser...

DATE: Nov 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

Rethinking gym class in the United States

Finding a way to create life-long physical activity

DATE: Nov 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Youth Sports

Supreme Court playground ruling feeds school voucher debate

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other proponents of school voucher programs are praising a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said a Lutheran church was wrongly denied a state grant for its ...

DATE: Jun 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

Teaching Trump: Should teachers offer up their own politics?

Some have been disciplined for taking personal views too far

DATE: Mar 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

The new civics course in U.S. schools: How to spot fake news

From elementary schools to colleges, students learn a new skill

DATE: Feb 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

Free tuition is not free college, students say

New York proposal falls short on other costs

DATE: Feb 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

1.3 million students in U.S. are homeless

New law to expand services for kids without homes

DATE: Oct 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

1.3 million students in U.S. are homeless

New law to expand services for kids without homes

DATE: Sep 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

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

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