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I had just started teaching at a school in the Bekaa valley when war broke out in September 2024. Within days, an Israeli bomb tore through my family home. One minute we were eating lunch, the next the walls were collapsing around us and on to my car outside. I had spent three years saving for that Honda Civic, so when I saw it destroyed, I broke down in tears.

Hard-won nursery place up in air with a dedicated facility still to be finished

It was the end of an era on Friday night at Canoga Park High, where Mark Nogy completed his final high school football home game as the public address announcer on the 30th anniversary of his debut. He's a Canoga Park graduate who later became a school counselor and also announced Pierce College football games. Former Canoga Park principal Denny Thompson wrote on Facebook, "Mark has never been shy about telling anyone who will listen just how great the community, staff, and students are."

Five days in, and two teachers have already done a 'midnight run' at my Title I school.

The program, which is currently only available to U.S.-based Pinners, aims to help maximize the use of Pinterest for learning, and drive more adoption of the platform for classroom-based initiatives. As explained by Pinterest: Pinterest for Teachers is a place for educators to find tools and resources to support them in the classroom and on platform including our first-ever Pinterest Educator's Fund, a program focused on uplifting creators who inspire teachers and students through educational content.

Parents who are fearful about the government's plans to overhaul special needs education in England took their fight to parliament on Monday, where the Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, warned the prime minister: Get this wrong and you are out. Up to 700 parents, many carrying colourful, homemade banners, took part in the Westminster day of protest. Failed, said one poster in blood-red paint, dripping over a list of children's names.

Seven in 10 schools are struggling with real-terms cuts to their budgets since 2010 1,200 more than last year according to the Stop School Cuts coalition, which has been monitoring school funding levels for almost a decade. Research by the coalition, which is made up of three education unions, school governors and a parents' charity, found more than 1,000 schools had suffered cumulative real-terms cuts in excess of 1m each, with Essex, Birmingham and Kent among the hardest hit areas.

Agency is what keeps us from running on cognitive autopilot. Artificial intelligence now offers to do much of that work for us. With a single prompt, we can receive elegant summaries and polished solutions that are so smooth and immediate that they can (and often do) lull us into submission. If we aren't careful, we risk becoming passengers in our own intellectual journey, letting the machine set the course.

The basic idea behind this is that students can have either a "fixed mindset" about their abilities (thinking they are born with a certain level of intelligence which cannot be changed over the course of their life) or a "growth mindset" (thinking their intelligence can be improved by hard work). It is assumed that having a growth mindset has a positive effect on academic achievement.

Located in the Lijia area of Yubei District, Chongqing, , the Golden Bay Kindergarten by NAN Architects responds to both a constrained triangular site and the psychological needs of early childhood education. Positioned along the Jialing River, the project integrates spatial strategies that balance openness, play, and protection. The design adopts a staggered stacking method in which each classroom unit is sequentially set back, creating terraces on every floor.

We must fight against antisemitism, but we equally need to protect our rights, including our right to free speech, and neither goal should nor needs to be sacrificed on the altar of the other.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) looked at 215 data breach cases at schools between January 2022 and August 2024, noting that 57 percent were caused by students, and almost a third (30 percent) were caused by stolen login details. In the case of stolen logins - either by students seeing others input credentials and remembering, or simply reading them noted down on paper - pupils were behind 97 percent of these attacks.

If you're struggling to prove the ROI of your corporate training, you're not alone. Nearly 80% of L&D teams face this challenge. The result is budget cuts and a poor understanding of training's real value, which undermines both the industry and day-to-day L&D work. iSpring is bringing industry leaders together in person to tackle the ROI crisis head-on. This exclusive event is designed for professionals shaping the future of corporate learning: L&D leaders and managers Instructional designers HR leaders and decision-makers Corporate training experts

In today's hypercompetitive business environment, sales remain the lifeblood of every corporate enterprise. Yet, despite its critical role, research reveals that a significant percentage of sales professionals are not adequately equipped to meet ever-evolving customer demands. This gap underscores the increasing importance of sales training as a structured approach to improving employee capability, enhancing customer engagement, and ultimately driving revenue growth.

When the pandemic began, DESE explained in the audit, DCF stopped receiving paper copy records. "A breakdown in communication between DESE and DCF began in February 2020 and continued undetected for 41 months, which included the entire audit period," the audit said. "As a result, potentially serious and substantiated findings of child abuse or neglect, possibly involving licensed educators, remain unexamined and unaddressed."

The biggest cyber risk to schools is our kids. Everyone talks about protecting grandma, but the reality is younger generations are the ones getting scammed the most. Gen Z in particular is impatient, naive, and easy to trick. Scam texts and calls bombard them every day, and they have not yet learned to pause and question what they are seeing.

If Governor Newsom signs the bill, students whose grades and coursework qualify them for CSU admission will receive a letter signed by the chancellor telling them they've been accepted at a list of campuses with enrollment capacity. According to a news release, Education research shows receiving such an acceptance letter can prompt a student to attend a four-year college when they otherwise would not findings that are driving the adoption of direct admission also known as automatic admission around the country.

Kids are making a mark in the U.K.'s cybersecurity arena, and not in the way their parents want them to. According to the country's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), students were behind more than half of personal data breaches in schools. In a warning to teachers and educational institutions, the ICO outlined its analysis of 215 data breach reports resulting from security incidents originating from inside schools, finding that 57% of the hacks were pulled off by students.

"To be honest, it wasn't the most exciting book," Berlin high school student Orcun Ilter said of Kleist's "The Broken Jug," speaking to local public broadcaster RBB. In his free time, Ilter has been enjoying a book by Tahsim Durgun, who became a TikTok star with videos about his life in Germany as the child of Yazidi Kurds who immigrated here from Turkey a voice Ilter says he misses in school literature.

Students acting maliciously - often for fun - are increasingly the cause of cyber attacks affecting schools and colleges in the UK, according to new data from the Information Commissioner's Office, which today warned that the culprits may be setting themselves up for a life of cyber crime.

"Your child's snack of pretzels today did not meet our 4K classroom snack policy. Please make sure to send only fruits, vegetables, meat, cheese or yogurt for their snack. Goldfish, popcorn and pretzels are not allowed for 4K students. If your child was without another snack, they were offered a classroom snack in place of this non-approved snack. Thank you for helping keep our 4K students safe due to severe classroom allergies. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks!"

An audit released Monday found that a "a significant percentage" of the school system's English Language Learners (ELLs) hadn't received the services they're legally entitled to, such as required courses or a minimum number of instructional minutes.They have also been denied other legally mandated services, the audit found, such as being identified as ELLs through the Home Language Identification Survey, being tested and placed through the New York State Identification Test for English Language Learners,

For the 2024-2025 Broadway season, AMDA College of the Performing Arts has once again distinguished itself, retaining the No. 4 spot among institutions with the highest number of alumni performing on Broadway. Covering the season from April 29, 2024 through April 27, 2025, the recognition highlights AMDA's enduring influence on Broadway and its continued success in preparing graduates for careers on the world's most competitive stages.

In my experience working with organizations on workplace safety, one thing is clear: harassment prevention isn't just a course you tick off a checklist. It's a capability that must be built, practiced, and reinforced over time. The goal isn't simply to know the definitions or policies; it's about knowing what to do when a situation arises, feeling confident to act, and creating an environment where everyone feels safe.

I can't just glance at my phone anymore, or quickly send a message during a break. At first, many students asked what the point of it was. But with time, many have come to realize that it's not so bad, and that it actually has quite a few benefits.

"North Carolina's constitution guarantees every child an equal opportunity to a public education - but these numbers reveal that promise as hollow for far too many students of color throughout the state," said Jake Sussman, Chief Counsel for Justice System Reform at SCSJ. "The disparities between the experiences of white students and Black students are shocking. We're not just failing individual children; we're systematically pushing them out of classrooms and continuing cycles of inequality that will affect generations to come."