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Georgia is illegally segregating special ed students, federal investigation says
Getty ImagesStudents in Georgia’s special education program are illegally segregated from the rest of the student body, kept in run-down classrooms and denied the same educational and extracurricular...
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It is now legal for schoolchildren in Oregon to wear sunscreen
Mike Mozart/flickrJust in time for the middle of summer, all Oregon schoolchildren will now be able to bring sunscreen to school without a doctor’s note, thanks to a new law passed in the state’s...
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Teen arrested for Instagram ‘threat’ that closed California high school
Veronica Miracle/ABC30/TwitterA Fresno, Calif. high school was closed Tuesday over alleged threats made by a student on Instagram, The Fresno Bee reports. The unidentified 15-year-old male posted a...
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How one of America’s last free colleges screwed its students and betrayed its...
Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe best piece of in-depth investigative reporting you’re likely to read this week comes not from any journalist, but rather from the office of Eric Schneiderman, New York’s...
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Washington State University president knocks down professors’ ban of...
Getty ImagesWashington State University is not on board with professors who would like to block use of some language in the classroom—and penalize students who violate the terms. Campus Reform reported...
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San Francisco elementary school making all restrooms gender-neutral
Photo illustration by John Atherton/CC, Jorge Rivas/FusionKindergarten students at Miraloma Elementary School in San Francisco have access to single-stall or gender-neutral restrooms, and that’s it. No...
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One of the most energy efficient schools in the country just opened in Staten...
Covered in solar panels, with a wind turbine spinning above and geothermal wells pumping below, Staten Island’s newest public school is an icon of energy efficiency. But officials at Public School 62,...
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Texas principal claims he harassed teen Muslim inventor ‘for your child’s...
When Daniel Cummings, the principal at MacArthur High in Irving, Texas, pulled Ahmed Mohamed out of class on Monday, he suspected the 14-year-old inventor had brought a bomb to the school. Mohamed, who...
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What schools are teaching teens about sex will horrify you
Getty Images, FusionWASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s a metaphor for sex that teachers around the country like to use. It involves a piece of tape, stuck on and then ripped off the arm of every student in the...
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Oregon shooting sheriff wrote anti-gun control letter to White House after...
Getty ImagesFollowing Thursday’s mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, which left the gunman and nine others dead and more injured, the country met Douglas County sheriff John Hanlin,...
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New California law urges schools to include a lesson on Mexican deportation
Getty ImagesCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill this week that instructs schools and textbook makers in the state to seriously consider including a lesson on Depression-era Mexican...
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University of Alabama’s Greek tragedy: A race problem that won’t go away
Getty ImagesHere’s the good news: The University of Alabama has its first black homecoming candidate from one of the sororities belonging to the traditionally white consortium of sororities and member...
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Upset parents prompt Connecticut schools to reinstate banned Halloween parade
Getty ImagesA Connecticut school district moved to ban Halloween celebrations this year, and the news has left parents spooked. Or at least, clamoring to protect the pagan holiday. According to the...
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Malia Obama visits Brown University, causes campus-wide freak-out
Win McNamee/Getty ImagesMalia Obama, 17-year-old daughter of President Obama, is preparing to end her tenure as First Daughter and begin her stint as a college freshman. To do so, she’s been dipping...
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The Naval Academy has a foolproof way to combat hackers: Celestial Navigation
NASALike the rest of us, the U.S. Naval Academy is trying to figure out a way to outsmart hackers. And they’ve found one, by returning to a time when hackers (and computers) didn’t exist. According to...
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A bear wandered into a Montana high school this morning
@SeniorListA bear, having learned nothing from teen movies and television, went to high school this morning. Against the fine advice of such movies as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and She’s the Man, a bear...
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This is why we might have a winter storm named YOLO this year
Screengrab via The Weather ChannelThe Weather Channel (TWC) announced Tuesday the names it will be using for the 2015–2016 winter storm season. There are 26 names, one for each letter of the alphabet....
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Two dead after man in ‘Star Wars-like’ mask attacks Swedish school with sword
APA sword-wielding man wearing what witnesses describe as a “Darth Vader-like” mask attacked several people at a school in Trolhättan, Sweden, a town of 50,000 around 50 miles north of the country’s...
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Kids take an average of 112 standardized tests by the time they graduate high...
APPresident Obama is making a big deal this week about reducing the number and intensity of standardized tests that kids around the country have to face. A new study released today by the Council of...
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Why that video of a girl being dragged from her school desk is so hard to watch
The FBI and Justice Department are getting involved after a recent video surfaced of a black South Carolina teenage girl getting yanked from her desk and thrown to the classroom floor by a student...
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