Mary Kay Letourneau’s sex abuse of 12-year-old Vili Fualaau ‘literally messed up entire class of sixth graders’: ex-student
Mary Kay Letourneau, a notorious parenting teacher, hurt her students when she was caught abusing one of her sixth grade classmates. “It nurtured me for a long time,” said Caitlin Steed, a 12-year-old at Shorewood Elementary School in Burien, Wash., in 1996. “She was a mother figure to us because she was so nurturing,” Steed, […]
Holocaust museum will host free field trips for eighth graders in New York City public schools
New York City’s Holocaust Museum will offer free educational field trips to eighth-graders in public schools as part of a program aimed at combating anti-Semitism, it announced Thursday. The program, which begins this fall and runs for three years, will allow up to 85,000 students from traditional public and charter schools to tour the Museum […]
IN lawmakers advance literacy bill that may hold back thousands of 3rd graders
Indiana lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would prevent students from failing the state’s high-stakes reading test, currently administered in third grade. The bill would also delay the initial administration of the test by one year, meaning passing sophomores would not have to take the test again. Some estimates suggest that if the bill passes, […]
IN legislation could hold back thousands of third graders who can’t read
Indiana lawmakers are trying to address the state’s declining literacy rates, with a particular focus on early elementary school students. A sweeping bill proposed by state senators would potentially hold third-graders who fail the state’s reading exam. State Sen. Linda Rogers, the bill’s author, said preservation is intended as a last resort after all other […]