CAROLYN THOMPSON | The Seattle Times

July 6, 2019 at 7:05 am

Schools still struggling with how to teach about slavery

"They made me a slave today." Aneka Burton still remembers the way her then 10-year-old son, Nikko, who is black, recounted his experience to his...

June 18, 2019 at 3:13 pm

Watchdog: Schools underreporting use of restraint, seclusion

A federal watchdog agency said Tuesday that public schools have significantly underreported their use of restraint and seclusion to control students' behavior. The Government Accountability...

June 7, 2019 at 12:00 am

Schools reckon with social stress: ‘I’m on my phone so much’ VIEW

Teachers, parents, medical professionals and researchers increasingly are convinced that smartphones — and particularly text messages and social-media notifications — are playing a major role...

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June 3, 2019 at 11:47 am

School’s plan for facial recognition system raises concerns

LOCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A New York school district has finished installing a facial recognition system intended to spot potentially dangerous intruders, but state officials...

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May 29, 2019 at 1:32 pm

School in mock slave complaint reaches agreement with NY

A private New York school where a teacher was fired after allegedly holding mock "slave auctions" will hire a diversity officer and change its discipline...

May 22, 2019 at 2:11 pm

Prominent upstate New York landlord indicted for fraud

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Prominent upstate New York landlord Robert Morgan was charged Wednesday in a 114-count federal indictment with inflating property values in his...

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May 17, 2019 at 9:44 am

College Board says adversity context rewards resourcefulness

Administrators of the SAT college admissions exam on Friday detailed plans to provide test scores in the context of a student's high school hardships as...

May 9, 2019 at 10:40 pm

Student ‘geek squads’ maintain school devices, help teachers VIEW

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo kindergarten teacher Maria Spurlock was still struggling after trying for more than a week to get a reading app working...

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Parents pick up their children at STEM School Highlands Ranch after a shooting in Highlands Ranch, Colo., near Denver, on Tuesday afternoon, May 7, 2019. Two suspects who carried out the armed attack have been identified as Devon Erickson and a juvenile female, the authorities said on Wednesday, as they continued to investigate the assault that reached “deep inside the school.” (Nick Cote/The New York Times) XNYTF XNYTF

May 9, 2019 at 9:52 pm

‘Run, Hide, Fight’ mindset making way into US schools VIEW

While many schools have stuck with the approach of locking down classrooms and waiting for police, some experts say staff and students need as many...

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May 6, 2019 at 6:54 am

Johns Hopkins to offer school leaders safety programming

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Johns Hopkins University initiative announced Monday will offer short courses to principals and other school leaders as part of an effort...

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