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nypost.com | 12 min. ago NEW

LAPD, LASD increase patrols as Jewish holidays begin

Los Angeles police and sheriff’s deputies are ramping up patrols around Jewish houses of worship, schools and cultural centers as the High Holy Days get underway. “The Los Angeles Police Department stands with our Jewish community as we enter the High Holy Days,” the agency said in a statement Wednesday. “We will have extra patrols...

thehindu.com | 35 min. ago NEW

Initiative to improve confidence of govt. school students launched in Perambalur

The six-month ‘Manathil Urudhi Vendum’ programme targets over 700 students of Classes IX to XII studying in three government schools; the structured sessions are to be conducted in batches

smh.com.au | 2 hrs. 49 min. ago

Senior schooling hard for parents, students to understand, review finds

Despite endorsement from school leaders and staff at Queensland’s assessment authority, the year 11 and 12 schooling system has issues to fix and hearts to win.

propublica.org | 3 hrs. 1 min. ago

Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.

The post Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality. appeared first on ProPublica.

theguardian.com | 3 hrs. 20 min. ago

Pupils missed 15m hours of school time during UK’s June heatwave, study finds

At least 760,000 children in England and Wales missed lessons as more than 1,700 schools closed or finished earlyThe gruelling heatwave that hit the UK in June caused pupils to miss more than 15m hours of lesson time as soaring temperatures forced hundreds of schools to close, according to a study.The research found that at least 760,000 schoolchildren in England and Wales missed lessons owing to closures during the heatwave – one of five to batter the UK this summer – as temperatures inside some classrooms topped 40C, leaving pupils and staff suffering from heat stress, nausea and headaches. Continue reading...

thehill.com | 3 hrs. 31 min. ago

9/11: The moment that changed the George W. Bush presidency

Twenty-five years ago today, I was in an elementary school in Florida with President George W. Bush, who was in the middle of a lesson with students when White House chief of staff Andy Card leaned over and whispered in his ear: “America is under attack.” That terrible truth transformed Bush from a sort of caretaker...

abcnews.com | 4 hrs. 9 min. ago

High school stabbing in Croatia leaves 2 wounded and attacker detained

Authorities in Zagreb, Croatia, say a high school student has stabbed another student and a janitor

thehindu.com | 4 hrs. 21 min. ago

Karnataka Upalokayukta orders suo motu probe into poor-quality shoes supplied to government schools

Media reports had cited allegations of corruption in the procurement and supply of the footwear

bbc.co.uk | 7 hrs. 57 min. ago

'Driving a limo', 'getting ready for school'- Americans remember what they were doing on 9/11

The BBC asks people in Washington what they were doing on that day and how 11 September 2001 changed the country.

smh.com.au | 8 hrs. 42 min. ago

Principal warned of audit risk years before school accused of over-claiming $23 million

Melbourne City Mission has taken steps to transfer power from Hester Hornbrook Academy, as the charity investigates allegations of misconduct against the school’s principal.

abc.net.au | 8 hrs. 48 min. ago

Former teacher spared jail after seeking stories about underage boys

A former school teacher in Victoria's north-west has been handed an 18-month community corrections order after pleading guilty over child abuse material.

iol.co.za | 9 hrs. 11 min. ago

Drugs and violence put SA schools under siege

Inside South Africa’s school safety crisis.

nytimes.com | 11 hrs. 49 min. ago

[$] “Americans who were finishing school suddenly found themselves competing not against their fellow Americans for jobs, but against 25 million new illegal immigrants.”

dailymail.com | 12 hrs. 14 min. ago

Father who said he would have BEHEADED his son's primary school teacher 'if she was a man' for calling him 'a little bully' is jailed after case shocked France

Abdelkader B., 47, from Le Fauga threatened to 'cut off the head' of a teacher on September 4, 2026, Toulouse Criminal Court heard.

abc.net.au | 12 hrs. 16 min. ago

Imitation gun found in Melbourne primary school playground

The ABC understands two students found the imitation firearm at Princes Hill Primary School at lunchtime yesterday.

theguardian.com | 13 hrs. 53 min. ago

Taipei Story by Rebecca F Kuang review – the torture and hilarity of learning Chinese

An American Chinese student studies Mandarin in Taiwan, in this heartfelt journey of self-discovery and family secretsWhat is Taiwan? A former Japanese colony? A centre of the semiconductor industry? A democracy overseen by American imperialism? China’s next military target? An island of Austronesian Indigenous tribes? Is Taipei a cultural emblem of Taiwan, or just another booming global capital out of touch with the rest of the country? What stories will Lily Chen, an American Chinese student at Yale and Rebecca F Kuang’s funny and deadpan protagonist in Taipei Story, discover in this melting pot while spending 10 weeks learning Mandarin?A prolific maverick with rare satirical wit, Kuang has built a career debunking authoritative institutions. Babel (2022) highlights the prejudices of the British empire through a fantastical Oxford translation institute; Yellowface (2023) transplants a heist thriller into the dark heart of American publishing; Katabasis (2025), a journey into the underworld, gives the academic inferno at Cambridge a new lease of death. Centring on a tough Mandarin language school, Taipei Story explores the torture, hilarity and pretension of learning a second language, but here Kuang also offers a heartfelt journey of self-discovery and family wounds. Continue reading...

bbc.co.uk | 14 hrs. 5 min. ago

More than 20 children killed in DR Congo school fire

Officials say there was a stampede as they fled a fire that engulfed two schools in the eastern rebel-held city of Bukavu.

globalnews.ca | 15 hrs. 34 min. ago

New Brunswick launches subsidized school lunch program amid rollout delays

New Brunswick's first provincewide school lunch program is now serving thousands of students, but about one in five schools is still waiting for full service.

thehindu.com | 17 hrs. 34 min. ago

Sri Sathya Sai village launches community surveillance to enhance security, combat crime

Action plan involves the strategic placement of cameras at key entry and exit points, school zones, and junctions, which will help to closely monitor potential offenders and expedite investigations in case of emergencies

thehindu.com | 17 hrs. 34 min. ago

Should the use of Gen AI be banned among younger students in schools?

dailymail.com | 17 hrs. 49 min. ago

Team Sussex say Harry and Meghan are 'happy to be back' in the UK in first comments about their return - despite swirling row with Buckingham Palace over Uganda pulling out of Invictus Games as a 'direct result' of King's letter

Insiders close to the Sussexes insisted that getting their children, Archie, seven, and Lilibet, five, settled as they begin a new school year 'has been, and remains, their focus.

nypost.com | 17 hrs. 56 min. ago

California’s ‘racist Karen’ unmasked as conspiracy-obsessed weirdo — as she’s accused of invading girls’ locker room

California's 'racist karen' has been identified as 47-year-old San Jose woman — whose social media is rife with conspiracies — as she's accused of entering the girls' locker room at a local school.

nypost.com | 17 hrs. 56 min. ago

Major California school district faces catastrophe as over 1,000 students suddenly disappear

The drop was nearly four times what officials anticipated for the new school year.

foxnews.com | 17 hrs. 57 min. ago

Pentagon witness blasts Virginia school district's 'vanilla' 9/11 teacher guide

Fairfax County, Va., schools face criticism over its new 9/11 guide, which identifies al Qaeda but emphasizes Muslim sensitivities and warns teachers not to “center the extremists."

mirror.co.uk | 18 hrs. 25 min. ago

At least 24 students dead after huge fire rips through two schools in DR Congo

A massive fire has ripped through two schools and hundreds of other buildings in Bukavu, a city in the east of the Democrtic Republic of Congo with at least 24 children killed

abcnews.com | 18 hrs. 45 min. ago

Students with President Bush on 9/11 look back on day: 'You could see it on his face'

Students of Emma E. Booker Elementary School in 2001 remember watching President George W. Bush react to 9/11.

nypost.com | 19 hrs. 17 min. ago

NYC kids ditch designer clothes for second-hand fashion and ‘it’ $60 sneakers — as affordability crisis hits back to school

School is in session — and designer clothing is out.

thehindu.com | 19 hrs. 37 min. ago

BUDS school at Karode must be reopened immediately: Child Rights Commission

The commission directed that the school be provided an electricity connection so that it can be made operational.

theguardian.com | 19 hrs. 38 min. ago

Former PE teacher faces lengthy jail term for sexually abusing pupils

Bronwen James, 30, admitted offences against two girls at schools in Wiltshire and Hampshire, and found guilty of charges involving boyA former PE teacher is facing a lengthy jail sentence for grooming and sexually abusing three pupils at two schools.Bronwen James, 30, admitted offences against two girls at schools in Hampshire and Wiltshire and was found guilty by a jury of charges involving a boy. Continue reading...

thehill.com | 19 hrs. 49 min. ago

Trump administration alleges UC Berkeley law school favors Black applicants

Officials from the Justice Department (DOJ) and Education Department alleged Wednesday that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law favors Black applicants over white and Asian applicants, in violation of federal law. In a letter to attorney Tania Faransso, who is representing the law school, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the institution “deliberately...

nypost.com | 19 hrs. 50 min. ago

Mamdani brags about savings in NYC’s massive school budget that amount to a fraction of a percent

The math ain't mathing.

globalnews.ca | 19 hrs. 52 min. ago

Saskatoon school worker hit with 10 charges, including sexual assault

A Saskatoon man is facing charges after five victims, aged around 10-years-old, alleged the staff member sexually interfered with them, police said.

theguardian.com | 20 hrs. 15 min. ago

‘I’ve got more of a sense of humour than Ralph Lauren’ – nine things we learned from Paul Smith’s new memoir

He put personality into boxers, collaborated with the pope (sort of) and is to thank for novelty socks. The British designer’s new book reveals there’s more to Smith than his stripesIn July, the British designer Paul Smith celebrated his 80th birthday and he has now released a memoir to mark the occasion. Threads: My Life in Style tells Smith’s story, from growing up in Nottingham and leaving school with no qualifications to selling suits to celebs, including Gary Oldman and David Bowie.Here are nine of our favourite lesser-known takeaways from the book. Continue reading...

nypost.com | 20 hrs. 35 min. ago

NYC’s youngest 9/11 survivors reveal their post-attack trauma: ‘I was helpless’

“It was terrifying. We all ran screaming into the school building."

theguardian.com | 21 hrs. 1 min. ago

Highs and lows of Keir Starmer’s time in office

Letters | Warren Brown lists some of the former PM’s achievements, but Stuart Finegan signals deep disappointment with his legacyZoe Williams may be right to describe Keir Starmer as a poor politician, but what did we expect (Farewell Keir Starmer, a terrible politician whom we desperately wanted to be something more, 2 September)? After 14 years of economic stagnation and a succession of career politicians as prime minister, we had a leader who previously had a proper job and career outside politics. Starmer’s legacy might be to demonstrate why we need to invest in a better cadre of skilled professional politicians.Those still pining for Starmer may remind us of achievements such as removing the two-child limit on universal benefit, more free school meals, Best Start family hubs, greater employment rights, increases in the minimum wage, renters’ rights, more GPs, lower waiting lists, the Hillsborough law, better relations with Europe etc. But they shouldn’t bother – no one was listening then, and they certainly aren’t now. Continue reading...

theguardian.com | 21 hrs. 2 min. ago

What internal exclusion really means for school pupils

Letters | Readers respond to a report that said use of the disciplinary measure had almost tripled in England’s secondary schoolsYour article quotes Tom Bennett, “a leading expert in behaviour management”, suggesting that internal exclusions are “a form of inclusion” (‘Internal exclusion’ of England secondary school students almost triples in three years, 3 September). That does not reflect my own experience. If a student is internally excluded, it must be as a last resort. I spent several months in the isolation room at my secondary school, and it didn’t feel inclusive to me.Like many of the students disproportionately affected by internal exclusion, I was from a disadvantaged background. I also had undiagnosed dyslexia. For me, internal exclusion meant I was unable to learn alongside other students – I’d simply get a printed handout from a teacher of the lesson notes and was told to read them. Continue reading...

dailymail.com | 21 hrs. 16 min. ago

Nearly half of private school parents forced to cut back on everyday spending following Labour's tax hike

Polling by the charity Parentkind found 40 per cent of families with children in independent education have had to make financial sacrifices in the last year to afford it.

nytimes.com | 21 hrs. 22 min. ago

[$] Defying Precedent in Ten Commandments Case

A much-reversed appeals court upheld a Texas law requiring schools to post the sacred text.

abc.net.au | 22 hrs. 28 min. ago

Students among 17 killed as fire rips through school in Congo

A fire at a school in Congo's rebel-controlled city of Bukavu has killed at least 17 people, including children.

thehindu.com | 22 hrs. 49 min. ago

GCC to intensify dengue prevention measures amid intermittent rains

Health inspectors were instructed to investigate the homes of fever patients identified at government, GCC and private hospitals and laboratories. They were also asked to review fogging and spraying operations, maintain records, and conduct awareness programmes in schools and fever-affected areas