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Texas A&M committee rules professor’s firing over gender identity lesson unjustified
A Texas A&M committee agreed that the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy…
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21 hospitalized after bus carrying junior high football team crashes near Pittsburgh
ECONOMY BOROUGH, Pa. — A bus carrying a junior high football team to a game crashed Saturday north of Pittsburgh,…
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School newspapers thousands of miles apart team up to heal from wildfires
After a wildfire decimated a California high school’s newsroom, destroying its cameras, computers and archived newspapers spanning six decades, one…
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Steve Carell surprises high school students with free prom tickets
LOS ANGELES — Actor Steve Carell is sending Southern California high school students affected by the devastating wildfires in Los…
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Commentary: The real costs of Indonesia’s free school lunch programme can’t be ignored
NOT A PANACEA Ensuring good governance (especially food safety) would be essential to preventing the programme from being the “pebble…
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Native American students miss school at higher rates, it got worse during pandemic
SAN CARLOS, Ariz. — After missing 40 days of school last year, Tommy Betom, 10, is on track this year…
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Texas is taking a final vote on allowing Bible-infused lessons in public schools
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas would allow Bible-infused lessons in elementary schools under changes that were set for a final vote…
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India’s capital shuts schools because of smog
NEW DELHI: India’s capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes on Monday (Nov 18) until further notice because of…
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Pakistan shuts primary schools in Lahore over record pollution
CHILDREN PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE On Saturday, the concentration of deadly PM2.5 pollutants – fine particulate matter in the air that causes…
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California becomes latest state to restrict student smartphone use at school
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — School districts in California will have to create rules restricting student smartphone use under a new law…
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