NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-06 04:02:12 Students from Colby College helped harvest ice from a pond for a new mikvah, or ritual bath, at a synagogue in Waterville. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. When a synagogue in Maine needed water for a ceremonial Jewish bath, it…
2024-03-26 10:54:32 It’s an experience she expects them to remember for the rest of their lives. “This is a story you’re gonna be able to tell,” she reflects before class. “You, as a second grader, you experienced this totality.” In a grassy area outside the school, Cummings’ eclipse simulation begins: Students take turns holding the…
2024-03-18 19:00:39 During that time, students were left to navigate a confusing array of options, including whether they should just sit tight and wait for a fix, or try a partial workaround that could put them at a higher risk of making a mistake on their application or would require them to come back and…
2024-03-12 08:59:34 Minneapolis Public Schools did not make any officials available for an interview. In a written statement, the district said it sent written notice of the attack to more than 105,000 people who may have been impacted by it. “This breach was actually really huge,” Gravatt says. “And it wasn’t just school records. It…
2024-03-18 05:00:32 Some innovations did work well. Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) is the poster child for what this grant program had hoped to produce. The idea was an early warning system that detects when children are starting to stumble at school. Teachers, administrators or counselors intervene in this early stage and build relationships with…
2024-03-11 20:30:52 High school exit exams can be another barrier to students with disabilities obtaining a general education diploma. Nine states require a passing score on the high school exit exam to receive a high school diploma, according to Education Week. During research for her dissertation, Kilpatrick met a parent whose twins had a specific…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-03-10 11:42:24 The Scantron bubbles were gone. So were the page-long passages and the pressure to speed-read them. No. 2 pencils? Optional, and only for taking notes. On Saturday, students in America took the newest version of the SATwhich was shorter, faster — and most notably, all online. Some exams were…
2024-03-07 12:47:16 I would argue that no, the voting age shouldn’t be extended to sixteen, due to the necessary teenage development that takes place between the ages sixteen and eighteen. Being a teenager of age seventeen, a teenager who would gain the right to vote should the age threshold be lowered, I have witnessed firsthand…
2024-03-06 05:00:54 While Vogel-Campbell’s school district obtains Spanish interpreter services relatively quickly, and is required to offer no-cost interpretation for all non-English speaking parents, she said that it may take up to a month to coordinate an interpreter of languages less frequently spoken in the area. Vogel-Campbell suggested that educators make small efforts throughout the…
2024-03-01 07:04:02 However, many other students argued that, under certain circumstances, parents should be held responsible for terrible crimes their children commit. Through numerous studies, it has been established that the most important factor in the development of a child is the parents and family members. It affects the success, values, mental health, and nearly…
