Being the only one leaves a mark: a Black mother on the long shadow of school segregation | US education
I’m sitting in the auditorium at my children’s elementary school. On stage is a multiracial group of kids in a circle singing a K-pop song...
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Old school backpacks too heavy, Japan’s pupils complain | Japan
It’s a familiar sight every weekday morning and afternoon all over Japan: children as young as six creaking under the strain of a leather backpack...
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Virginia school ‘couldn’t be bothered’ to stop boy with gun, teacher’s lawyer says | Virginia
Concerned teachers and employees warned administrators at a Virginia elementary school three times that a six-year-old boy had a gun and was threatening other students...
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Six-year-old intentionally shot teacher in Virginia school, police say | Virginia
A six-year-old child deliberately shot a teacher at an elementary school in Virginia on Friday afternoon, according to police. Police said in a statement that...
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I had to dress as a boy to go to school in Afghanistan in the 90s. That would never fool today’s cruel Taliban | Zahra Joya
In the past 15 months or so, life has changed unrecognisably for Afghanistan’s women and girls. Speak to secondary school pupils, their parents and education...
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DeSantis appoints judge who denied abortion to girl over school grades | Florida
Florida’s rightwing Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has appointed a judge who was previously ousted over a controversial ruling where he denied a teenager an abortion,...
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Jude Bellingham went to my school! OK, it was 35 years after me, but I’m walking a little bit taller | Adrian Chiles
I was wandering up Stourbridge High Street, in the West Midlands, on a grey Monday morning this week when I spied a TV crew walking...
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Boy, 16, ‘wore swastika’ during fatal school shootings in Brazil | Brazil
A former student armed with a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver who killed three people and wounded 13 in two schools in Brazil had a...
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Children taken to hospital after science experiment causes chemical explosion at Sydney school | Sydney
Eleven students and one teacher are in a stable condition after a science experiment caused a chemical explosion at a school on Sydney’s northern beaches....
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Parkland school shooter sentenced to life without parole | Parkland, Florida school shooting
Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz formally received a sentence of life without parole Wednesday after families of his 17 slain victims spent two days berating...