Education

Education

When I glanced at his screen, equations were nowhere to be seen. He was controlling a monster in the midst of battle, casting magic spells to outduel an opposing player. "That's not your math homework!" I told him. But it was. His fifth-grade-math teacher had told her students to spend time on Prodigy, a site that looks and feels like a video game.

When Rosie Rines graduated from Boston's Roslindale High School in 1964, college didn't seem like an option. But later this month, at 79 years old, she'll don a cap and gown and receive her undergraduate degree from Harvard Extension School - with her daughters cheering her on.

Actually she had the group of students recite together in a joking, know-it-all tone, before diving into her lecture on Ten Things to Know About the Declaration of Independence That Most People Don't Know. The bar association's event comes ahead of the 250th anniversary of the founding document and the establishment of the United States of America, which will be commemorated on July 4 of this year. Friday's event featured remarks from two United States District Court for the Southern District of New York judges, Magistrate Judge Katharine Huth Parker and Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain.

Facing a $7.3 million deficit and less than three weeks after the layoffs of 53 California Academy of Sciences employees, the museum's executive director announced he's resigning at the end of the month. It's unclear whether Scott Sampson, the executive director of the California Academy of Sciences, is resigning due to budget cuts, as the Chronicle reports. CalAcademy Workers United, which represents 37 of the 53 laid-off employees, had been using its recent Cut From the Top campaign to urge the museum to reduce its executives' salaries rather than eliminate essential staff members.

The 2025-26 high school sports season has required Armando Fernandez to multitask at an extraordinary level. He has served as head coach at Sotomayor for boys' basketball and volleyball, and is interim head coach for baseball. He also was head coach for Franklin's flag football team. Each team has won playoff games this season.

A jury has found that the Palo Alto Unified School District is not liable in the lawsuit brought by former robotics teacher Kathy Krier, according to an announcement from the district.

Israel has destroyed schools across southern Lebanon and displaced hundreds of thousands of students. Hundreds of educational institutions have turned into makeshift shelters for thousands of displaced people, causing a compounding series of disruptions to an education system that was already struggling as a result of a debilitating economic crisis.

Gerry Blanck, who taught karate in Pacifc Palisades for 43 years, was unsure if he would return after flames tore through his studio. He was teaching about 70 students - less than half his old roster - in a temporary space in Santa Monica. He is now back in the Palisades, thanks to a grant from Build Back Pali, a nonprofit started by three teenage boys.

We viewed it not just as an achievement gap, but as an opportunity gap. In its earliest days, AHA emerged due to a realization among teachers: Students were thriving in visual and performing arts classes, yet some were not seeing the same level of success in their non-art coursework. That disparity became the foundation for a new vision of education as a concept. We knew our students could achieve across all disciplines, but they weren't, Stahl said, That realization became the spark to create a school that bridges arts and academics.

The TCDSB's international languages (IL) program was started at the board about 50 years ago, and initially offered foreign language instruction on weekends only. By 2019, the program had expanded to 44 TCDSB elementary schools, each of which offered lessons during the school day in either Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Filipino, Ukrainian or Mandarin. Because the language lessons were integrated into the school day rather than offered after hours and on Saturdays, as is the case at all other Ontario school boards some parents worried that they were cutting into more t

A teaching assistant has been jailed after spitting at a child and pinching another pupil's nose at a school in Sittingbourne. Danuska Pullia, of Iwade, in Kent, was sentenced to four years in prison for four counts of child cruelty at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday. The 47-year-old had denied the allegations but Kent Police said she admitted to officers she spat at a child who spat at her and pinched another child's nose to take a chocolate bar out of their mouth.

Wise feedback is a method of offering critique to young people with research-proven effectiveness. Wise feedback is a concept introduced in a 2014 research study conducted by psychologist David Yeager, Geoffrey Cohen, et al. with the purpose of assisting coaches, instructors, parents, etc., to improve the quality of their work with young people.

At age 76, the Brockton great-grandmother will graduate from Bridgewater State University with a degree in Sociology and a minor in African American Studies - a milestone more than 50 years in the making. For decades, Sheryl Royster put college on hold while raising children, caring for loved ones, and navigating financial hardship. Now, at age 76, she will complete the degree she once delayed, turning a long-held goal into a graduation day achievement.

I worked at a school; some kids got free lunch, and some bought their lunches. The kids were going on an all-day field trip. Just before we called the classes down to get on the buses, I asked one of the organizers (who worked in the district) where the lunches were. (I was expecting at least a few brown bagged lunches for the kids who get free lunch or the kids who always buy lunches). The organizer said that the kids should already have their lunchboxes in their backpacks.

“I remember being amazed by my kindergarten teacher, Miss Little,” Flanagan says. “She was just so warm and welcoming and always had a huge smile on her face every day. And I wanted to be just like her. And ever since, I said, 'I'm going to be a kindergarten teacher.' And it never wavered.”

I always wanted to have an impact on the world, which sounds pretty dreamy, but that's why I decided to study international relations and global communications in college. I knew I wanted to understand how the world works and the systems that shaped people's lives. I also wanted a global challenge, which drew me into climate change.

In the now-viral clip, Fowler recounted how one senior earned an 18 percent in her class, then completed an entire nine weeks of recovery assignments in a single day and walked away with a 75. 'What are we doing?' Fowler asked in the video, which quickly struck a nerve with educators nationwide.