‘Kool Kids Klan’ School BLASTS white supremacist petition passed to students at lunchtime
A WHITE supremacist petition which was passed around a school and promoted “the supreme White race” but labelled black people as a “scourge” who “invented” stealing, rape and basketball, has been condemned by school officials. Daily Express :: News Feed
Students Assert Speech Rights By Sitting for Pledge
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Leilani Thomas was refusing to follow the pack long before Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, declined to stand for the playing of the US national anthem. Leilani, who is now 14, has been sitting while her classmates said the Pledge of Allegiance since she was in the […]
Grade-Level Allocation Failing Millions of Students, Report Says
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Federal and state level education policies that focus on grade-level proficiency are failing millions of students across America and putting the nations future prosperity at risk, a new policy brief has found. The publication from the Institute for Education Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Education sought to challenge the […]
Del Mar College Students ‘Thinking Outside the Box’ — Literally
Letty Alfaro, 23, points out features in the virtual reality home she designed during the 12-week Technical Animation and Rendering course at Del Mar College. By Michael Bratten, Del Mar College Bob Klepac is breaking down the notion that architecture means four walls and a roof. For example, he told a class on a recent summer […]
Lawsuit Says Georgia School Segregates Students with Disabilities
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) Georgia’s state-run school for disabled children is being challenged by the U.S. Government in a formal lawsuit that states that the Georgia Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support (GNETS) violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and is unlawful segregation. The students at the school are considered to have behavioral or emotional disorders, writes […]
Texas Students Protest Guns with ‘Cocks Not Glocks’
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) Students at the University of Texas arrived on campus openly displaying sex toys earlier in the week in protest of the new state gun law that makes the carrying of concealed handguns while in college classrooms across the state legal. The act of carrying sex toys in the open is currently illegal […]
DoE: Students with Disabilities at Virtual Schools Must Be Served Adequately
(Photo: Pexels, Creative Commons) A letter has been sent by the US Department of Education to address the rights of students with disabilities who attend virtual schools across the country. The Dear Colleague letter was released by the department’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, serving as a reminder to states that students with disabilities […]
Students Shouldn’t Have Writer’s Block These Days
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) By Stephen D. Senturia I was once a student. It was in the middle of the last century (really!). We didn’t have computers or word processors. We had pencil and paper and, when we were ready, typewriters. When a teacher gave an assignment back in those days, we literally had to […]
New Jersey Board of Ed: All Graduating Students Must Pass PARCC
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Students in New Jersey who enter the eighth grade in the coming academic year will be facing a new graduation requirement when they become seniors in 2021 — the pupils will have to prove their readiness by passing two standardized tests that less than 50% of New Jersey students have been able […]
Obama, Feds Look to Support 1.3 Million Homeless Students
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Schools across the nation will be back in session soon, with millions of students returning to their classrooms — but some students need a bit more support. The US Department of Education has released guidelines to direct states and school districts on the best practices to serve the particular needs of homeless pupils. […]