Tag: News
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China signs deal to build 1,000 Schools in Iraq
Iraq has awarded contracts to two Chinese companies to build 1,000 schools at a cost of nearly $1.9 billion, a local news agency reported on Monday.
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Nine-year-old ‘real life Matilda’ is adopted by her second grade teacher
Nine-year-old girl is adopted from foster care by her second grade teacher – drawing comparison to Matilda and Miss Honey.
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Québécois Teacher Stabbed at John F. Kennedy High School, Suspect In Custody.
Montreal police had one teenager in custody Thursday morning after a teacher at John F. Kennedy High School on Villeray St. was stabbed during an altercation with a student. Montreal police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant said it happened inside the school at around 10:10 a.m. when an altercation between a student and a teacher escalated.“The student…
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Watch and Explore | St Mary’s School: The Only School In The World’s Most Isolated Inhabited Island “Tristan Da Cunha”
Tristan Da Cunha is one of a set of islands in the South Atlantic, which are the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world. The nearest populated land mass is the island of St. Helena, 745 miles away. To further understand the magnitude of the islands’ isolation, the nearest city is Cape Town, the capital…
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France To Jail School Bullies
A lower court of the French Parliament on Wednesday approved a draft law that would make school bullying a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison, following bullying tragedies in France that have in some cases resulted in the deaths of children. The proposed law was supported by Emmanuel Macron’s education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer.…
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Michigan School Shooting: Student Kills Three And Wounds Eight
A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at his Michigan high school on Tuesday, killing three students and wounding eight other people, including at least one teacher, authorities said. The Oxford High School students killed were T. Myre, 16; H. St. Julian, 14, and M. Baldwin, 17, according to Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard. Eight others —…
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Watch: Castleberry High School investigating viral video of student attacking teacher, making racist comments.
Officials in Castleberry High School are investigating after a video of a white student yelling at and hitting a Black teacher went viral. The video, which was filmed at a school in the Castleberry district, was posted to Twitter on Nov. 19 and has since garnered thousands of views. It’s not clear what date the…
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Watch: Deer breaks into Elementary school in Springfield
Video posted to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s Facebook page showed a deer, which was identified as a whitetail buck, standing in the middle of a soiled classroom at Westside Elementary School in Springfield, Tennessee. The wild deer had managed to squeeze its way through an emergency door without breaking it and got trapped inside the…
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Watch: Adele breaks down after reuniting with English teacher from school on stage, bursts into tears.
The “Easy on Me” singer started to cry as she was reunited with the teacher who she hadn’t seen since age 12. Adele is used to surprising fans at her concerts, but this time she was the one who was left shocked. The “Easy on Me” singer filmed a UK concert special called “An Audience…
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Teacher Teaches Microsoft Word Without Using Any Computers
A teacher who teaches Microsoft Word without using any computers in Ghana had become an online sensation. Teaching kids how to use a computer is hard enough already, since they’re kids, but just try doing it without any computers. That was the task undertaken by Richard Appiah Akoto in Ghana, who, thanks to his innovative…