About 1 in 4 U.S. teachers said their school went into a “gun-related lockdown” during the 2022-23 school year, according to new findings from the Pew Research Center. The teachers told the research center they experienced lockdowns “because of a gun or suspicion of a gun at their school,” with around 15% saying it happened once during the year and 8% saying it happened more than once. “High school teachers are most likely to report experiencing these lockdowns: 34% say their school went on at...
These schools all received high praise from Ofsted, from pupils behaviour to the quality of teaching
Geneva, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) In the past 50 years global immunization has saved 154 million people, equivalent to six lives every minute, and most of them were babies, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Wednesday. The post Global vaccination saved 154M lives in past 50 years – WHO first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Kids across the country are concerned about their future, and they're not
Decision by European court of human rights around vulnerability of older women to heatwaves marks significant shiftA landmark legal ruling at the European court of human rights could open the floodgates for a slew of new court cases around the world, experts have said.The Strasbourg-based court said earlier this week that Switzerland’s failure to do enough to cut its national greenhouse gas emissions was a clear violation of the human rights of a group of more than 2,000 older Swiss women. The...
Relatives of a badly-injured Fenger High School student want the driver who hit the 15-year-old and then drove away to turn himself in.
Six Naperville school lockdowns are in place amid a police investigation in
Britain's plummeting birth rate is threating to trigger a 'catastrophic' meltdown of the nation's education system, with fears shrinking class sizes could spark a tsunami of primary school closures.
Unions say schools do not have enough resources to support persistently disruptive pupils.
“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.
Sydney is set to follow in the footsteps of London and New York to stake its claim as one of the world’s leading climate action cities with the inaugural Climate Action Week Sydney taking place between May 13-19 2024.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – In a letter to families Tuesday night, Albuquerque Public Schools announced changes in the bell schedule for the 2024-2025 school year. Most high schools are seeing little to no change starting at 8:40 am and going until 3:25 pm or 3:40 pm. Most middle schools will start about an hour earlier 8:05 []