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fromsilive
41 minutes ago

Could You Be a CEO? Young Entrepreneurs Academy accepting applications through Nov. 30

Young Entrepreneurs Academy offers Staten Island high school students a 16-week program to launch real businesses with mentorship and startup competition opportunities.
fromsilive
13 hours ago

Staten Island HS girls' tennis: NDA's Lee ousts defending champ in semis of borough CHSAA individuals

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Notre Dame Academy's Rachel Lee is back! After a sophomore-year hiatus, Lee has been playing some tough, competitive tennis for the Gators. After a stellar season at second singles, Lee saved her best tennis for the Staten Island CHSAA individual tournament Saturday, stunning two-time defending champion Yuriko Perpetua (Staten Island Academy) in a dramatic 6-3,1-6, 10-3 victory at the College of Staten Island courts,
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fromUSA Today
2 days ago

Veterans Week: AgileDad and Pivot Agility Offer Free Online Career Training for U.S. Military and Veterans

Free, fully sponsored live online Agile and product training courses are offered tuition-free to active-duty U.S. military, reservists, and veterans during Veterans Week.
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fromwww.latimes.com
6 hours ago

High school football: Saturday's scores

SoCal high school football results: San Fernando 43-24 Sylmar; Lynwood 35-0; Compton 38-21; Norte Vista 39-27; Mater Dei 29-19; Chadwick 55-20.
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fromLos Angeles Times
1 day ago

Prep talk: Maggie Kearin shows how to get a sports scholarship via club experience

Maggie Kearin earned a field hockey scholarship to the University of Louisville despite attending a high school without a field hockey team.
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fromBuzzFeed
1 day ago

I Was An Award-Winning Teacher By Day. After Dark, My Behavior Was Increasingly Troubling.

Project-based, culturally responsive teaching, supported by grants and community partnerships, improved immigrant students' academic outcomes and social-emotional well-being.
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fromeLearning Industry
20 hours ago

When CX Starts With LX: Why Great Customer Experiences Begin Inside The Learning Organization

Customer experience quality depends on learner-focused learning experience design that trains, coaches, and empowers frontline employees.
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fromPsychology Today
20 hours ago

From Math Phobia to Math Confidence

Joy and enthusiasm provide essential components to build the motivation and perseverance needed to understand and succeed in math. Neuroimaging and cognitive neuroscience research show correlations demonstrating children's math negativity adversely impacts their dedication and successful learning. Here, we'll suggest interventions to promote children's positive attitudes about math. Reduce Math Mistake Fear For most children, the biggest school fear is making a mistake in front of classmates. Help reduce mistake fear and increase your children's participation with activities where errors are part of the process.
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fromTruthout
17 hours ago

NYC Public Schools System Defies Trump Anti-Trans Demands, Files Lawsuit

When faced with the same threats - to lose millions in federal funding unless they betray their transgender students and teachers - these communities have refused to back down. First it was Virginia, then Denver and Chicago. Now, New York City Public Schools, the largest public school system in the country, has joined them, declaring it will not comply with the Trump administration's demands.
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fromChalkbeat
1 day ago

Mamdani's opponents want to grow NYC's gifted programs. Attracting students isn't easy.

City leaders propose expanding gifted programs, but enrollment declines, demographic disparities, and practical challenges complicate efforts to increase access.
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fromFox News
2 days ago

NYC schools sue Education Department over nearly $50M in grant cuts due to transgender policies

New York City Public Schools sued the U.S. Department of Education to block a $47 million grant cut tied to transgender-inclusive school policies.
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fromBusiness Insider
3 days ago
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AI is reshaping the teenage brain - and an Oxford study says it is making students faster, but shallower thinkers

fromBusiness Insider
3 days ago
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AI is reshaping the teenage brain - and an Oxford study says it is making students faster, but shallower thinkers

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fromAdvocate.com
1 day ago

NYC schools sue Trump administration for nixing almost $50M in grants over trans protections

New York City Public Schools sued after the U.S. Department of Education canceled nearly $50 million in magnet grants over protections for transgender and gender-expansive students.
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fromoaklandside.org
1 day ago

Drinking water at most Oakland schools now meets safety thresholds, officials say

Oakland Unified has reduced lead levels in drinking water at 70 of 76 schools through extensive testing and remediation, with ongoing repairs and safety efforts.
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fromwww.sandiegouniontribune.com
2 days ago

California's latest attempt at charter school reform dies with Gov. Newsom's veto

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 414, blocking charter school oversight reforms including creation of an education inspector general and stricter audit and vendor rules.
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fromThe Oaklandside
2 days ago

A California summer initiative spawned a surprise dividend: new teachers

California's Expanded Learning Opportunities Program leverages summer and after-school programs to recruit and pipeline teachers, helping address shortages in high-demand subjects.
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fromMedium
4 weeks ago

The world doesn't need more courses-It needs better ones

We need better courses that prioritize ethics, accessibility, and human-centered design over more crash tutorials.
fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Simple Ways Schools Can Support Students Who Translate at Home

Children of multilingual immigrants frequently serve as "little interpreters" for their families and communities. They assist with translation during doctors' appointments, help make sense of utility bills, and translate school records, among other responsibilities. This process, known as language brokering, is necessary because families need assistance navigating systems in a second language and an unfamiliar culture. While this role develops students' cultural competency and communication skills, it also places them
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 days ago
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Oklahoma drops plan to force schools to teach Bible lessons in social studies classes - LGBTQ Nation

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Oklahoma drops plan to force schools to teach Bible lessons in social studies classes - LGBTQ Nation

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fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 days ago

Why children with Send from low-income homes face double disadvantage'

Disadvantaged children with SEND face compounded disadvantage, inconsistent bureaucracy limits EHCP access, and poorer SEND pupils achieve substantially worse GCSE outcomes.
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fromsilive
3 days ago

Staten Island school ranks third in 2026 listing of top public high schools in NYC and New York state

Staten Island Technical High School ranks third among public high schools in New York City and State and is among the top 25 nationally.
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fromScary Mommy
2 days ago

Teachers Are Giving Middle Schoolers Letter-Tracing Assignments

Many students need to relearn basic handwriting skills after pandemic disruptions, prompting teachers to use elementary tracing worksheets across grades.
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fromLos Angeles Times
3 days ago

A popular charter faces closure to make more room for an LAUSD school

Los Angeles Unified voted to deny renewal of Gabriella Charter School, evicting the 400-student dance-focused school to prioritize a district-operated program.
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fromAbove the Law
2 days ago

The Law Schools That Provide The 'Best Value' For Students (2025) - Above the Law

National Jurist's 2025 Best Value law school ranking prioritizes tuition, cost of living, graduate debt, employment rates, and bar passage, favoring public schools.
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fromMedium
5 days ago

10 Best Scala Courses on Coursera in 2025

Scala drives scalable systems, data engineering, and functional programming; Coursera offers comprehensive beginner-to-advanced courses with hands-on projects for professional skill building.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 days ago

Teacher struck off after explicit' sexual conversations with pupils

A teacher was banned after allegedly discussing sexually explicit topics with pupils, receiving a minimum two-year prohibition from teaching.
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fromThe Nation
5 days ago

Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?

The University of Chicago amassed massive construction-driven debt, contributing to cuts in humanities PhD admissions and severe financial strain.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 days ago

State audit calls out UC, CSU student housing and says $89 million should not be used for SJSU's Spartan Village

In July 2023, San Jose State University was granted $89 million in the state budget through the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program, which provides grant funding to California colleges and universities to construct affordable student housing. The state audit alleges that the university was granted the funds to support the construction of the Campus Village 3 project, a 12-story high-rise that would provide more than 1,000 student beds, including 517 affordable housing beds below market rate.
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fromABC7 San Francisco
3 days ago

SF teachers rally outside of district HQ for better contract: 'We are ready to strike if necessary!'

San Francisco educators threaten strike over inadequate raises, cuts to prep time, and unaffordable dependent health care demand district to improve compensation and benefits.
fromFast Company
4 days ago

How kids are getting around classroom phone bans

"Schoolkids are creating a Google Doc with their friends that they all have real-time access to, and they just type into it during class," one teacher explained in a recent TikTok video. The clip had since racked up over 4.4 million views. "They basically reinvented the AOL chat room." Other teachers have shared similar stories. "It's like we are back in the nineties," one said. "That's what we did."
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fromwww.sandiegouniontribune.com
4 days ago

One student wounded in stabbing attack at California middle school library

A seventh-grade boy stabbed a seventh-grade girl twice in the Coronado Middle School library; the girl was hospitalized and the suspect is in police custody.
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fromBusiness Matters
6 days ago

How To Navigate the Teacher Certification Journey in 2025

Obtain state-specific certification details, pass required exams with focused preparation, and complete student teaching to transition successfully from graduation to a classroom teaching role.
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fromLos Angeles Times
5 days ago

Light boxes, braille writers and smell: How this child care center serves visually impaired kids

Specialized classrooms at the Blind Children's Center provide tailored early education and care for visually impaired infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in Los Angeles County.
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fromwww.npr.org
5 days ago

In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump

Third- through eighth-grade reading achievement remains at pandemic-era lows, while math shows modest, uneven recovery; all grades remain below 2019 performance.
fromThe Mercury News
4 days ago

Spanish-speaking students say they face struggles learning English in high school

For one, the younger brain learns language more quickly than the teen brain does. The concepts and material high schoolers face in class are more complex and difficult than the ideas taught in elementary school. And teens study more subjects at a faster pace than do younger kids. Many young people long to be bilingual. They know it's necessary for school and work, and aim to earn a seal of biliteracy, recognizing that they've mastered two languages.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 days ago

Spanish-speaking students say they face struggles learning English in high school

More than their younger siblings may do, high school students who came to this country as teenagers struggle while learning English in school. For one, the younger brain learns language more quickly than the teen brain does. The concepts and material high schoolers face in class are more complex and difficult than the ideas taught in elementary school. And teens study more subjects at a faster pace than do younger kids.
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fromThe Atlantic
5 days ago

Americans Are Getting Much Dumber

American student achievement declined sharply since about 2013, with rising reading failure and low standardized-test scores linked to lower standards and digital distractions.
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fromwww.standard.co.uk
5 days ago

Parents banned from school sports days in London borough due to badly behaved parents

Parents banned from school sports events across Merton borough due to dangerous and disruptive behaviour, prioritising children's safety and welfare.
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fromTelecompetitor
4 days ago

Mission Telecom Offers E-Rate Pricing to Help Students and Library Patrons

Mission Telecom matches E-Rate-subsidized costs to provide affordable mobile hotspot and school bus Wi-Fi connectivity for schools and libraries through June 30, 2026.
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fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Unlocking Student Potential: Self-Motivation Drives Success

Self-motivation, self-discipline, self-regulation, and self-management are essential self-initiated behaviors that foster intrinsic learning qualities across disciplines.
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fromBusiness Insider
5 days ago

Moving is harder when you've been somewhere for so long

Family moved 150 miles to Santa Barbara in 2023 for husband's dream job, prompting difficult adjustments, new activities, and divergent paths for teenage children.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 days ago

Protecting Jewish students or chilling speech? Inside California's hardest' fight over antisemitism

California enacted AB 715 to restrict certain classroom speech addressing antisemitism, triggering intense political conflict between Jewish community protections and a growing pro-Palestinian base.
fromFuncheap
5 days ago

Financial Planning Day at SF Main Library

Join us for a full day of expert advice on managing your finances and planning for the future. Get free, objective, no-strings-attached one-on-one counseling from CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER(TM) professionals and attend financial workshops throughout the day. All financial workshops will take place in the Koret Auditorium and be livestreamed on Zoom. This is a hybrid event. Registration is required for Zoom attendance.
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fromScary Mommy
5 days ago

Trump Administration Guts Office Of Special Education

The office, which uses about $15 million annually in funding, ensures that the 7.5 million school-aged children with disabilities are treated fairly under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). They do this through overseeing and guiding state school systems. At the same time, the office offers programs that support kids with disabilities, their educators, and their families.
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fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

Teaching Kids to Thrive in the Age of AI

Developing meta-skills—adaptability, attentional control, resilience, critical thinking, and meta-learning—is essential for students to thrive in an AI-driven, disruptive world.
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fromAustin Monitor
1 week ago
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Almost $300 million in public property is at stake as Austin ISD looks to close 13 schools - Austin Monitor

fromAustin Monitor
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Almost $300 million in public property is at stake as Austin ISD looks to close 13 schools - Austin Monitor

fromTruthout
5 days ago

Ed Dept Restores Funding for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss After Outcry

Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it. But rather than sending the money directly to the four programs that are part of a national network helping students who are deaf and blind, a condition known as deafblindness, the department has instead rerouted the grants to a different organization that will provide funding for those vulnerable students.
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fromTODAY.com
5 days ago

Why Teachers Are Banning the Slang '67'

I've been teaching for 20 years and I've dealt with all sorts of slang - nothing has driven me crazier than this one,
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fromeLearning
6 days ago

Creating Dynamic Character Conversations in Adobe Captivate - eLearning

Character-driven conversations in Adobe Captivate transform passive learning into interactive, scenario-based experiences that improve engagement, contextualization, and practical application of policies and soft skills.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what has changed?

School mobile phone bans in Australia restored student attention, reduced device-driven conflicts, and improved classroom flow and social interaction two years after implementation.
fromCornell Chronicle
6 days ago

Native American stereotypes, as seen by Native Americans | Cornell Chronicle

Understanding prevalent stereotypes - whether they are positive or negative, believed or not - could help schools and parents counter them to support students' development, said Adam Hoffman , assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and College of Human Ecology. "Research has shown that stereotypes, even positive ones, are detrimental and can impact teens' academic motivation and achievement, mental health and well-being," Hoffman said.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Can you solve it? The London cab that rode into history

1729 is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two distinct ways, inspiring the term taxicab number and maths school name.
fromAustin Monitor
5 days ago

'We need more time': Austin parents, teachers and staff voice concerns over school closure plan - Austin Monitor

"We've already lived through the painful impact of past closures, consolidations and modernizations, disruptions that left deep scars on our families, students and staff," she said. "Please, do not reassign our students again. Do not implement these boundary changes."
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fromThe Mercury News
6 days ago

San Jose, county libraries bring Imagination Library to young readers

Santa Clara County offers Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, mailing free monthly age-appropriate books to all children under five to promote early literacy.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
6 days ago

San Jose, county libraries bring Imagination Library to young readers

Santa Clara County offers free monthly Imagination Library books to all children under five, available in English and Spanish, delivered until each child's fifth birthday.
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fromKqed
1 week ago

How Fresno Schools Are Helping Students Get Back On Their Feet | KQED

Fresno Unified's housing and support programs reduced student homelessness, while doctors at Adventist Health report immigration agents interfering with detainee medical care.
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fromIrish Independent
1 week ago

'There's savage kindness among this group of teenagers' - Cork secondary school staff on taking part in new TV series

A Rebel Education portrays Irish students' modern challenges, emphasizing social media's impact, digital literacy, mental health, resilience, and a diverse school community.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Middle School Expulsion Heightens the Risk of Delinquency

Exclusionary discipline harms vulnerable teens, disproportionately affecting marginalized students and worsening academic, emotional, and social outcomes while reflecting insufficient school supports.
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fromNew York Daily News
1 week ago

Cuomo calls for more specialized high schools amid controversy over Mamdani education stance

Andrew Cuomo proposes expanding specialized high schools and gifted-and-talented programs in NYC, doubling specialized schools and increasing Queens specialized seats to 1,000.
fromFortune
1 week ago

'When our girls succeed, we all do': Michelle Obama group pledges $2.5 million to adolescent girls' education efforts | Fortune

"These groups are changing the way girls see themselves in their own communities and in our world, helping create the leaders we need for the brighter future we all deserve,"
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fromChalkbeat
1 week ago

NYC gifted and talented: Mamdani's calls for change comes amid already shifting landscape

Proposed elimination of kindergarten gifted admissions clashes with recent shifts that increased diversity via teacher recommendations and expanded third-grade programs, creating new implementation challenges.
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fromwww.standard.co.uk
1 week ago

Top London girls' school to go 'smartphone free' to tackle online harm and disruption to learning

Walthamstow School for Girls will ban smartphones from September, confiscating breaches for up to eight weeks and allowing only switched-off, internet-free 'brick' phones kept in bags.
fromsilive
1 week ago

Staten Island cheerleading: CHSAA announces new divisions for regional competition

Ahead of the 2025-2026 season, the Catholic High School Athletic Association has changed its cheerleading competition format to realign with state and Universal Cheerleaders Association guidelines, the Advance/SILive.com has learned.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op': Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical and how getting high nearly broke her

Malala Yousafzai smoked her first bong in a hidden Lady Margaret Hall shed, an event she says profoundly changed her life.
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fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

Sophomore Chase Curren shows big potential for unbeaten Crespi

Sophomore quarterback Chase Curren and new coaching under Brad Vonnahme have revitalized Crespi High football, driving a turnaround from 0-10 to an undefeated 7-0 season.
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fromTruthout
1 week ago

Activists Who Want to Dismantle Public Schools Now Run the Education Department

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is shrinking the Department of Education while redirecting federal funds toward charters, private, religious, virtual, and homeschooling options, undermining public schools.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Why Scholars Should Take Their Show On the Road

Research across diverse domains-from economic decision-making to social stereotyping-has shown that human beings are " cognitive misers." In other words, our default mode for processing information favors bite-sized chunks. Leaving aside individual variability and motivational overrides, we prefer shortcuts and snap judgments over long, winding paths and deliberative thinking. However, the kind of research that has illuminated these very tendencies is itself the result of both zigzagging trails (including unavoidable dead ends, bushwacks, and backtracks) and systematic analysis.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

This museum immerses students in U.S. history: 'You can smell it, touch it, see it'

Kat Lloyd stands in the dim light on the first-floor staircase of a dilapidated, New York City tenement building. Before her: a tour of wide-eyed teens on a field trip from their high school in Queens. Their guide, Lloyd, encourages the students to imagine the building's 22 apartments when they were new, back in 1863, and brimming with mostly German immigrants.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

Heard kids saying '6-7'? It's so annoying that schools are banning it

A viral TikTok phrase '6-7' has spread into Gen Alpha classrooms, disrupting lessons and prompting varied teacher responses including bans and management tactics.
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fromTODAY.com
1 week ago

How This Principal Uses Roller Skating to Bond With Students

A principal roller-skates students to class, using skating to build joy, staff connection, and inspiration while gaining viral attention and community support.
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fromTelecompetitor
1 week ago

North Carolina Defines Digital Skills Standards

North Carolina released Digital Skills Standards defining core competencies to close the digital divide and strengthen residents' confidence and ability to use technology.
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fromHer Campus
1 week ago

Level Up for Free - 5 Marketing Courses to Boost your CV

Free online courses from platforms like Google, HubSpot, and LinkedIn Learning provide practical, industry-relevant skills and certifications that boost employability for Gen Z.
fromCbsnews
1 week ago

How one principal used debate to turn a failing middle school around

At Middle School 50 in Brooklyn, New York, principal Benjamin Honoroff and his students are pumped to start the day - a dramatic transformation from when he came in a decade ago. "We were on a list of persistently dangerous schools, and there'd been some pretty drastic enrollment decline from over a thousand students to 160 students," Honoroff said. But the former high school debate coach had an idea. He took a chance and integrated into every class, across all grade levels.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

I never thought I'd say this, but I now understand the appeal of home schooling | Emma Brockes

We were talking about her decision to home school or unschool, or home educate, depending on your tribal affiliation her two children, making her simultaneously part of a broader trend and also somewhat strange to herself. The cliche of home schooling still leans on the idea of a fringe choice made by fanatical parents who produce a poorly socialised child if you said of a child: They're home schooled, you'd trigger a knowing look that implied: Say no more. Well maybe all that is changing.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

University of Phoenix IPO: All eyes on the stock price as education partners go public during shutdown

"Phoenix Education Partners, parent company of the for-profit University of Phoenix, which announced its IPO plans one day before the shutdown began, said on Wednesday that it has priced its shares at $32. That's the midpoint of its earlier targeted range of between $31 and $33 a share. The company intends to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the "PXED" ticker symbol. Selling shareholders will offer roughly 4.3 million shares of its common stock,"
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Effects of Restricted Cellphone Use in Schools

Evening cellphone and screen use impairs sleep in children and adolescents; policies and behavioral interventions can reduce harm but parental enforcement often faces adolescent resistance.
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Writing, Thinking, and Falling In Love in Another Language

My relationship with English began by force. Growing up in A Coruña, Spain, in the early 2000s, we were told that learning a second language was just as important as memorizing the multiplication table. After the 2008 financial crisis left the Spanish economy " melting down like a Dali horrorscape," as one Atlantic writer put it, English became what seemed like our national salvation, a one-way ticket to a better future abroad.
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