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News Articles: Education

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  • Education

4 tips for parents and caregivers who want to go to college

Being a student parent or student caregiver comes with its own unique challenges — challenges not every college is equipped to help with.

February 03, 2022
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By:
  • Mansee Khurana
Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette Moore, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the late 1940s.

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  • Education

Remembering the man who 'laid the groundwork for the modern civil rights movement'

Seventy years ago, Florida civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette, were killed in a bombing at their home on Christmas Day. No one was charged with their murders.

February 02, 2022
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By:
  • Greg Allen
National Guard Specialist Austin Alt stands as he fills in as a substitute teacher due to staffing shortages caused by the coronavirus disease pandemic and other non-illness related absences at Pojoaque Valley Middle School in Pojoaque, N.M.

Tagged as: 

  • Education

New Mexico asks National Guard to work as substitute teachers to keep classrooms open

New Mexico is short 1,000 teachers. National Guard volunteers now serve as substitute teachers.

February 02, 2022
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By:
  • Alice Fordham
Rep. Wes Cantrell testifies to the House Education Committee about his school voucher bills.

Tagged as: 

  • Education

House bills to create state-funded school vouchers advance, draw criticism

Two bills authored by Woodstock Republican state Rep. Wes Cantrell aimed at giving families a choice of where to send their children to school moved forward in House committees Tuesday, including one that could make taxpayer-funded school vouchers available to all Georgia students.

February 02, 2022
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By:
  • Ross Williams

Tagged as: 

  • Education

Some families are being forced to choose between remote learning and school meals

Many low-income families who want their children to keep learning remotely are losing access to a federal program that helped them pay for meals.

February 02, 2022
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By:
  • Cory Turner

Tagged as: 

  • Education

More than half of teachers are looking for the exits, a poll says

A new poll from the nation's largest teachers union finds burnout is widespread, and more educators say they're thinking about leaving.

February 01, 2022
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By:
  • Anya Kamenetz
Howard University in Washington, D.C., is one of at least six historically Black colleges and universities that received bomb threats on Monday. It received a second threat on Tuesday.

Tagged as: 

  • Education

New bomb threats disrupt campus activities at several HBCUs

Howard University received a second bomb threat on Tuesday — part of a recent pattern of violent threats against historically Black colleges and universities.

February 01, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez and
  • Bill Chappell
Emory University Will Team Up with the VA for a Specialized Nursing Education

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  • Education

Emory expands aid to help students pay tuition without loans

Emory University has announced that it will increase its financial aid for students from low-income households and eliminate its need-based loan program. The university said in a statement Monday that the push to help more students graduate debt-free will begin next school year.

February 01, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press
Sandra Castro vaccinates first-grader Kristen Cruz, 6, at KIPP Believe Charter School in New Orleans last week ahead of Tuesday's deadline for all students in the city's school system to be vaccinated.

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  • National

New Orleans will be the first major school district to mandate COVID vaccinations

Waivers for those opposed to vaccination are easy to obtain under state regulations, and schools will work with students who aren't inoculated, the district's superintendent said.

January 31, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press

Tagged as: 

  • Education

After 2 years, growing calls to take masks off children in school

While issues around masking remain polarized, there are growing calls for a post-omicron off-ramp for kids and masks.

January 28, 2022
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By:
  • Anya Kamenetz
A sign in a hallway at a Chicago elementary school reinforces the mantra of social distancing.

Tagged as: 

  • Education

A school principal's blunt warning: We can't pretend the pandemic is over

Principal Seth Lavin says even after the omicron surge ends, the crisis for children will continue.

January 28, 2022
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By:
  • Asma Khalid,
  • Casey Morell,
  • and 2 more
Salomon Abend, second from the left, at Beaune La Rolande.

Tagged as: 

  • History

A discovery of Holocaust-era photos helps a Jewish family connect with its past

A box of photos discovered more than 30 years ago includes pictures of an internment camp and many who died at Auschwitz. The photos were recently reunited with the Jewish family they belong to.

January 27, 2022
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By:
  • Greg Allen
GPB  NPR

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  • Education

School offers full tuition to 58 students after a scholarship award message error

A test of Central Michigan University's new messaging system "inadvertently" told 58 students they won an award that provides full tuition, room and board, money toward books and supplies and $5,000.

January 27, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The American flag flies at half-staff on Dec. 2, 2021, outside of Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich.

Tagged as: 

  • National

The teen charged in a Michigan school shooting will pursue an insanity defense

A 15-year-old charged with killing four students at a Michigan high school will pursue an insanity defense as he, his parents and school officials face a new lawsuit over the November attack.

January 27, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press

Tagged as: 

  • Family

The expanded child tax credit briefly slashed child poverty. Here's what else it did

The monthly cash payments reached more than 61 million kids in December alone. Most low-income families spent the money on basic needs like food, clothing and utility bills.

January 27, 2022
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By:
  • Cory Turner
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