A high school math teacher at St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans, Michelle Blouin Williams, was looking for ingenuity when she and her colleagues set a school-wide math contest with a challenging bonus question. That bonus question asked students to create a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, a fundamental principle of geometry, using trigonometry. The teachers weren't necessarily expecting anyone to solve it, as proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry were believed to be...
A 13-year-old girl says she was attacked by adults related to a bull at a Texas school, but the district decided to suspend the victim after she fought back. The girl, who didn't want to be identified, told KTVT-TV that she had heard rumors that a new girl at Bettye Myers Middle School in Denton wanted to fight with her. She said she went to school officials, including a counselor and an assistant principal. She said they told her that they had spoken to the other girl, but it didn't help...
A former high school athletic trainer accused of sexually assaulting a dozen teenage girls was sentenced Monday to 36 years in prison after pleading no contest to felony charges, officials said. Richard Alexander Turner, 65, entered the plea during a preliminary hearing to determine whether there was enough evidence for the case to go to trial, court records show. He pleaded no contest to 13 counts of sexual assault involving 12 girls, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's...
Police in Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture, have arrested a 72-year-old former junior high school soft tennis coach on suspicion of sexually molesting a girl who was his student. The incident occurred at around 7:30 a.m. on April 9, Sankei Shimbun quoted police as saying. The suspect is accused of exposing
Officers locked down the campus after an 18-year-old student was fatally shot outside the school building Wednesday afternoon. Parents were reunited with their children at the AISD Athletics and Aquatics Center.
An 18-year-old student is dead after being shot five to six times by another student outside Bowie High School in Texas. In a press conference, Arlington Police Chief Al Jones and Arlington ISD Superintendent Dr. Matt Smith said that the shooting happened at the local public school around 2:50 p.m. Wednesday near a portable building outside. The school was placed on lockdown just as students were about to be let out for the day. When School Resource Officers arrived at the scene, they found the...
Darrel Campbell is 'embarrassed by all the attention' after he stepped in. Teacher does not see his actions as heroic as he put 'attacker' in armlock. Girl, 13, charged with attempted murder as 15-year-old probed over 'threats'
George Watson's College called social services at the end of 2020 after the parents, who acted on advice from psychologists, asked the school to carry out a 'watchful waiting' approach to their child.
(The Center Square) – Charter schools in Washington state are doing a better job educating children in math and English Language Arts than traditional schools. That is one of the main takeaways from the Washington State Board of Education's Charter Schools Report. "The overall finding for all of the prior charter school reports and this seventh edition submitted by the SBE is that students attending Washington charter schools perform similar to or better than...
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“If I were advising a friend’s son or daughter facing Decision Day, I’d tell them to pass on the Ivy League and go to a high-quality state school instead,” explains Nate Silver at his Silver Bulletin, with a few exceptions.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - The Clark County School District is averaging over 40 crashes a month since August, according to data obtained by 8 News Now. Video provided to 8 News Now apparently shows a school bus driving past a yellow light in Henderson, hitting a black SUV. The vehicle's driver and passenger were injured []