calling the teacher a "freaking genius," and saying her request "absolutely blew my mind." In the video, she imagines the scene. Thirty kids "on the verge of puberty" packed into an un-air-conditioned classroom after running around on the blacktop in "100-degree Iowa corn sweat heat." "It's got to be like a human crock pot of disgusting sweat and smells," Baird adds with a laugh. She concludes, "Deodorant. The smartest thing I've heard all year."
For several years, I've built and led leadership development programs. I helped leaders at all levels develop the skills they need to transition from one level to the next. Individual contributors transitioned to their first management roles, beginning to learn about what it means to manage people. Senior leaders became executives and learned what it means to truly lead a company, where every action reflects the culture and values.
A new grant competition from the Department of Education redirects federal funding intended for college student success programs to four areas aligned with the president's priorities. Critics say those four areas have little to do with access and retention. Congress appropriated $171 million for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to be used toward seven established programs, including Basic Needs, Veteran Student Success and Rural Postsecondary Education Development.
For the third time this school year, students at Oakland's Skyline High School were put into a "secure school protocol" this afternoon. Parents received a notice at 1:57 p.m. of a medical emergency that involved teachers and students being put into the secure protocol, where they are not allowed to leave the classroom they're in. A message sent at 2:07 p.m. said, "The lockdown is lifted and we will be dismissing students at the gate."
The College of Arts & Sciences is launching Cornell in Los Angeles (CULA), a new semester-long program designed to give students an insider's view of the entertainment industry. Ten students will be selected for the inaugural cohort, which will begin in spring 2027, with applications opening April 1, 2026. The program, spearheaded by the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), will place students in Hollywood for a semester of coursework, networking and cultural immersion.
"You'll put in €30,000, but you'll end up with about €41,500." Personal finance columnist Sinead Ryan doesn't mince her words when it comes to the potential power of child benefit, if it's saved strategically. On the latest episode of Money Talks, she explains to Katie Byrne why this €140 monthly payment is one of the most misunderstood parts of family finances. For some households, it's essential income.
When Sesame Street first appeared on television in 1969, it rearranged the architecture of childhood. The show looked like pure joy, a neighborhood of color, rhythm, and creatures who seemed to belong to no one and everyone at once. But underneath the laughter and songs was something more radical. A handful of educators and psychologists came together with a quiet conviction that television could be a classroom for children who didn't have one. They weren't simply trying to teach the alphabet.
A recap of the day's learning is beneficial for children, but let's change the way homework is done Homework - the mere mention of the word is guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of parents and children up and down the country. For the grown-ups of my generation, the word usually triggers a collective trauma intricately interwoven with the all too familiar opening chords of RTÉ's Glenroe.
Proponents argue that the bans are essential to promoting academic achievement and overall well-being among students. Cell phone ownership has more than doubled among school-aged youth in the past decade. At the same time, rates of anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and cyberbullying have skyrocketed. And 72 percent of high school teachers say phone distractions are a major problem in their classrooms, according to Pew Research Center polling from June 2024.
When Staci Freed's 5-year-old daughter, Audrey, returned from kindergarten in suburban Atlanta proudly showing off a Ring Pop she'd been given at school, the mother didn't see a sweet gesture; she saw a problem. A few days earlier, Freed had asked Audrey's teacher not to give her conventional candy after learning she had received Skittles as a special treat, citing concerns about artificial dyes and additives.
The serval did not want to go into her crate. The spotted cat's name was Naomi, she had just been weighed, and now it was time to do as she was told. "C'mon - in your crate," urged Thomas Barber, a student at Moorpark College. Naomi, held on a leash by student Trinity Astilla, was the picture of lithe, feline elegance as she slunk around a dusty enclosure, briefly hopping atop her crate - but not into it.
Simon was recently walking through the park with his three-year-old daughter. Autumn had truly arrived, and brown leaves lay scattered across the ground beneath the bare trees. Simon's daughter saw a small boy playing among the leaves and ran over to see what he was doing. The two quickly formed an unspoken bond as they joined forces, collecting the discarded leaves into piles. If you have children, you are almost certainly familiar with this scene, or one like it. Children naturally want to understand what's happening around them, and that curiosity helps them to connect with anyone, or anything, that intrigues them. When there's something new and exciting to discover, social anxiety is easily forgotten. Connections are easily forged.
The warning follows several months of financial crisis within the district. Just a few months ago, Oakland Unified was projected to run out of cash as early as fall 2025, with an anticipated $95 million budget shortfall. That deficit was reduced to $30 million, the district said over the summer, in large part through reduction and rearrangement of staffing. But district staff warned that Oakland Unified was still spending more than it receives and retaining too many employees with money the district simply doesn't have.
In a letter sent to the community Thursday, Saddler - who stepped into the top role over the summer after the school board ousted longtime superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell - said that $100 million must be cut from the 2026-27 budget in order for the district to stay afloat. "People we know and care about will lose their jobs. Programs our students love will be reduced or eliminated," Saddler said.
My parents were strict at home but at school people can airdrop you videos or show you their screen without invitation, to see your reaction. My school had a see it, hear it, lose it' policy, but in reality we just used them under the desk, in the toilets, during lunch break, in the playground, on the bus, even in the corridors. It was impossible for the teachers to stop us.
Much better to defer a white paper on special needs education in England than to announce plans in haste, only to be forced to withdraw them. This was the calculation behind the government's decision to put off until next year its plans for reform in a vitally important and sensitive area. Some council leaders were disappointed by the delay, such is their desperation about overspends.
SAN LEANDRO - Police here arrested a teacher at Bancroft Middle School after a 13-year-old girl reported that he'd inappropriately touched her repeatedly, starting when she was 12 years old, in what investigators described as "grooming stages," court records show. Laurentino Huerta-Garcia, 40, of Manteca, was charged in October with a single felony count of continuous sexual abuse of a child.
Eduba, developed by Roie Avni, is an adaptive classroom furniture system that challenges the static nature of traditional learning spaces. Designed to make classrooms more flexible, dynamic, and student-centered, it allows quick and intuitive changes in layout and posture, enabling a fluid learning experience that evolves throughout the day. The system includes a and a , both designed for versatility and ease of use. Each piece can be connected, detached, or flipped to create different configurations.
Overthe past few years, a huge number of schools in the United States and around the world have banned cell phone use among their students. It's a divisive topic, and the effects are only starting to come into focus. Just look at New York State, where governor Kathy Hocul and lawmakers put a ban into the state budget last spring in an effort to give kids a break from distractions at school.
During elementary school, I often resisted being homeschooled or attending a private evangelical Christian school, so the summer before seventh grade, I begged my parents to let me return to public school. They agreed, but that transition was also difficult. I felt like a fish out of water, completely naive and innocent in terms of pop culture and developmental knowledge. In other words, no matter which form of schooling I endured, there were real challenges: physical, mental, and emotional.
What you see is the result of a collaborative journey between three fields: education, architecture, and fabrication. The educational perspective guided us in designing a school that responds to the needs of children in a world increasingly dominated by digital technology, fostering instead a connection to nature. The architects shaped forms, spaces, and light that make every living being-children, plants, and animals-feel recognized and alive.
Kevin Kiernan, the winningest girls' coach in state history with 900 career wins, according to CalHiSports, has come out of retirement for a second stint at Troy, where he coached for 11 years before heading over to Mater Dei for an 18-year run as girls' coach and later athletic director. He's also coached at Westminster La Quinta as well as boys' basketball and was women's coach at Cypress College.
The law aims to build on the Dignity for all Students Act, which took effect in 2012 and is designed to provide public elementary and secondary school students with a safe and supportive environment without discrimination, intimidation, taunting, harassment, and bullying on school property, a school bus, and/or at a school function, according to the New York State Education Department.
Dominic Perfetti is a 6-foot-7 starting basketball player for St. John Bosco. Even more impressive is that he's one of the top high school lacrosse players in the nation and has committed to Syracuse. He became interested in lacrosse when a friend gave him a stick when he was 6 years old. He started fooling around with it and has been playing lacrosse ever since.
I've surfaced from sleep in many weird, not-wonderful ways: waking up in my student accommodation in Maynooth to find I was not only in my boots, but sharing a single bed with two other fully grown people springs to mind.
Stickel, formerly deputy chief, has been serving as interim chief since Sept. 20 following the retirement of Chief Anthony Bellamy. "Chief Stickel has demonstrated unwavering dedication, professionalism and leadership throughout his tenure with CUPD," Honan said. "His commitment to campus safety, community engagement and operational excellence has earned the respect of his peers and the broader Cornell community. This promotion is a well-deserved recognition of his service and vision for the future of CUPD."
We all know that a legal education can land the average law school graduate in up to six figures of debt (to be specific, on average, 2025 graduates racked up more than $112,500 in student debt), and we all know that egregiously high tuition costs are to blame. But which schools had the most costly tuition and fees for out-of-state students for the 2024-2025 academic year? The Short List blog of U.S. News has compiled a ranking for that, and it's not at all shocking that almost all 15 schools that made the list are private.
Every Instructional Designer (ID) knows the drill. You've completed your needs analysis, identified performance gaps, and gathered all your Subject Matter Expert content. Now comes the time-consuming task of creating detailed storyboards-formatting learning objectives, designing screen treatments, crafting assessment questions, and ensuring everything follows organizational standards. Hours turn into days as you meticulously structure content, proofread for errors, and maintain formatting consistency across dozens of screens. What if there was a way to reclaim 40% of that time by automating storyboard creation?
The Department of Education is asking parents to fill out the three-question survey before Tuesday, December 16 A new survey by the Department of Education hopes to allow parents to inform schools' ethos - and can be completed in under five minutes. I completed the survey and found it easy to understand, with the Department keeping it short and sweet, posing just three questions.
When encouraging children to become excited about learning, it is very important to help them develop a positive academic self-concept. A person's academic self-concept is the way they identify with what type of student they are. It is how you would describe yourself as a student. A person has many different aspects to their overall self-concept and likely identifies with each aspect differently. For example, every person will identify with their athletic, artistic, musical, social, emotional, or academic self-concept in different ways.
JSerra is 27-0. Orange Lutheran, the defending Division 1 champion, is 24-2, with both losses to JSerra. Can the Lions beat a terrific Orange Lutheran team three times in a season? Quarterback Makena Cook and her Lancer teammates certainly have learned lessons from the last two matchups. Cook had four passes intercepted in an 18-7 loss the first time the two teams met. She was better in a 21-20 loss. She will try to spread the ball to more targets and avoid turnovers.
When Tosha Alexander was 17, her world was unraveling. Her father had died, and with her mother unable to keep their lives together, foster care became the next stop in her journey. Then her history teacher, Brea Kitts, did something extraordinary. Without hesitation, Kitts - who was a single mother - stepped in and took legal custody. She gave Alexander not just a roof over her head, but a home, a sense of safety, and a chance to finish high school with her friends.
