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Teachers Say They Want the COVID-19 Vaccine Before They Head Back to the Classroom
Children who have been marooned at home for months by the pandemic are slowly returning to classrooms, but many teachers say they won’t go back until they’ve received the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Will Jill Biden Keep Teaching When She Becomes First Lady?
If Jill Biden were to continue her teaching job when her husband takes the Oval Office, it would make her the first first lady with a job outside the White House
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Decapitated French Teacher Warned Not to Show Prophet Muhammad Images Before ‘Islamist' Attack
French authorities say a suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of responsibility on social media minutes after the attack
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A Teacher Explains How to Talk to Children About Racism
It’s never too early to start teaching children to be antiracist, said Brittany Smith, a pre-kindergarten teacher from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Steps as simple as buying books that feature diverse faces is a good start.
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CPS Teacher Recognized for Creativity During Teacher Appreciation Week
During this Teacher Appreciation Week, Chicago Public Schools has recognized one teacher for the way she’s been providing a sense of normalcy during the coronavirus pandemic. Ms. Kathryn Heineman, a first-grade teacher at Coonley Elementary in the North Center area of Chicago, was nominated by a group of parents after creating unique lessons for her class of 28 during this…
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Students Surprise Chicago 4th Grade Teacher for Teacher Appreciation Week
As part of Teacher Appreciation Week, fourth grade students at Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School on Chicago’s North Side showed up at their teacher’s door step bearing gifts.
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‘Tell Me What the Reality Looks Like': Trying to Stop Suicides as Social Media Explodes
When Dese’Rae Stage interviews survivors of suicide attempts for a website she created, she asks herself a question news reporters may not always consider: How much did it hurt? A survivor herself, she wants to be sure that readers of her website “Live Through This” come away with a real picture of suicide — no romance, no facile explanations and...
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Meet Kathryn Magnolia Johnson, Activist Featured in New Chicago Exhibit
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson served her country as a nurse and educator with the YMCA during World World I. Learn more about her life at a new exhibit at Chicago’s DuSable Museum: “Fighting Racism in the Trenches: A Colored Woman in WWI”.
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Child Molester Victims to Get Nearly $11M in Settlement
Twelve former students of a man convicted of sexually abusing them when he was their teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school will receive a combined $10.9 million to settle a lawsuit against the school, an attorney said.
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Many Homes Still Without Roofs in Puerto Rico, 2 Years After María
When Doña Milagros Matos Marquez and her husband Don Cruz Marquez received the news that Hurricane María was approaching Trujillo Alto in Puerto Rico, they expected some rain and maybe a little bit of wind, like with previous storms. Instead María blew their roof off once the storm made landfall exactly two years ago on Friday. In the months after...
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Virginia Teacher Arrested for Holding Student Upside Down: Police
A Virginia teacher was charged with assault after he allegedly grabbed an 11-year-old girl by the ankles and held her upside down. Tenkoran Agyeman, 40, was arrested Tuesday after the incident was reported to have occurred at Rippon Middle School in Woodbridge on Nov. 1 or Nov. 4, Prince William County police said Wednesday. Police say Agyeman grabbed the student…
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Former ‘DWTS' Dancer Slams Substitute Teacher Lecturing His Child for Having 2 Dads
A substitute teacher berated a Utah fifth grader after he said during a pre-Thanksgiving lesson that he was thankful he’s finally going to be adopted by his two dads, the parents said. The boy’s classmates said the teacher told him, “that’s nothing to be thankful for” and lectured the 30 kids in the class about her views on homosexuality. She...
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Jewish Synagogue Serving Deaf Community Could Close In Skokie
Skokie’s 47-year-old Congregation Bene Shalom is in trouble and its members urgently ask for a Thanksgiving blessing.
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‘A Serious-Minded Kid:' Pete Buttigieg Aimed High Early
Would Peter Buttigieg — the smartest kid in class, language whiz and devotee of John F. Kennedy — use his unusual last name in his eventual run for president of the United States? Or would he have a better shot of winning the voters of the future if he went by Montgomery, his middle name?
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10-Year-Old Charged With Sex Offense at Maryland School
A 10-year-old has been charged with fourth-degree sex offense and second-degree assault for an incident at an elementary school, the Charles County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.
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Buttigieg Takes Aim at Candidates With Washington Experience
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg defended his lack of experience in Washington by criticizing what experienced candidates haven’t done for the country.
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Six Arrested in Killing of US Teacher in Dominican Republic
Police in the Dominican Republic have arrested six people in connection with the death of American teacher Patricia Ann Anton, who was found strangled in her apartment last week. Anton, 63, was robbed and killed in Puerto Plata, on the country’s northern coast, Dominican national police said. Police announced her death Nov. 12. National police on Sunday said six men,...
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Husband, 106, and Wife, 105, Are Named World's Oldest Living Couple
With a combined 211 years between them, Charlotte and John Henderson, from Austin, Texas, have been named the oldest living couple by Guinness World Records. John Henderson is 106 — he turns 107 next month — and Charlotte Henderson is 105. They will be married 80 years on Dec. 15. The pair met in 1934 as students at the University...
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Still Teaching at 95, Jimmy Carter Draws Devotees to Church
The pilgrims arrive early and from all over, gathering hours before daybreak in an old pecan grove that surrounds a country church. They come, they say, for a dose of simple decency and devotion wrapped up in a Bible lesson. The teacher is the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter. Nearly four decades after he left office and...
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Pennsylvania Teacher Apologizes to Parents After Trump Refugee Assignment
School officials in Pennsylvania have apologized to parents after students received a homework assignment involving President Donald Trump.