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In Guidance To Teachers, Church of England Targets Anti-LGBT Bullying

5:04pm November 13, 2017

by Rebecca Feldhaus Adams

The 52-page document outlines recommendations for teachers in its nearly 5,000 schools, saying students should "be able to play with the many cloaks of identity."

In Santa Rosa, a playground stands across the street from where recent wildfires reduced homes to rubble.

California Wildfires Have Disrupted School For A Quarter Of A Million Students

5:35pm October 21, 2017

by Carl Boisrond

Natural disasters have left millions of students across the U.S. out of school. The California wildfires have added to the tally, with dozens of districts and hundreds of schools affected.

A teacher greets students on the first day of elementary school in Mosul, where regular classes have started for the first time since ISIS took over the northern Iraqi city three years ago. Hundreds of schools were damaged or destroyed in the fighting to

After 3 Years Under ISIS, Mosul's Children Go Back To School

1:45pm October 09, 2017

by Jane Arraf

Children are returning to school after missing years of classes when ISIS controlled the city. Iraqi forces retook Mosul over the summer. "We want you to succeed," a principal tells schoolchildren.

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Building support for ELLs at school so they can make it through

Research Shows Spanish Speakers Take Longer To Learn English. Why?

4:48pm September 15, 2017

by Avi Wolfman-Arent

A recent study emphasizes what researchers have noted for years: As children, Spanish-speaking English learners take longer to become proficient than nearly any other group. Here are theories why.

Students walk through an entrance above which is engraved "Stonewall Jackson" at Jackson Elementary School in Oklahoma City.

These Oklahoma City Schools Are Named For Confederate Generals ... Or Are They?

6:28am September 04, 2017

by Emily Wendler

Oklahoma City school leaders announced they wanted the community to decide whether to change the names of four schools, only to find that some important details about the schools may be lost to time.

This School District Asked Real Estate Agents To Help Rekindle Its Reputation

6:28pm September 02, 2017

by Adolfo Guzman Lopez

Real estate agents, knowingly or not, can sway families' opinions on schools. So, school officials in Pasadena, Calif., decided to ask agents to help build a better district image.

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Christine Garcia relaxes with her 8-year-old daughter Mia in the Channelview High School gym. It's been turned into an evacuation shelter for victims of flooding from Harvey.

Houston School Superintendent Says A Lot Of Work Ahead To Open Schools

6:43pm August 30, 2017

by Laura Isensee

School was supposed to begin this week in Houston, but Harvey's devastating flooding has made that impossible. Here's how the school district is coping and working to move forward.

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Do Laptops Help Learning? A Look At The Only Statewide School Laptop Program

10:06am August 18, 2017

by Robbie Feinberg

It was 15 years ago that Maine began the first, and still the only, statewide school laptop program. Experts worry that an attempt to bridge the digital divide might have widened it.

Students Drive New Policies As K-12 Sexual Assault Investigations Rise

7:15pm August 08, 2017

by Charlie Stuip

Since 2014, sexual assault investigations conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights are up nearly 500 percent in elementary, middle and high schools across the country.

A new Florida state law allows parents, and any residents, to challenge the use of textbooks and instructional materials they find objectionable via an independent hearing.

New Florida Law Lets Residents Challenge School Textbooks

9:27am July 31, 2017

by Greg Allen

The new bill was pushed by a conservative group critical of the way evolution, climate change and government were being taught in Florida schools.

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