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3rd grade teacher goes viral for charging students rent

A third-grade teacher in North Carolina has garnered international attention for charging students to rent desks and chairs and forcing them to pay fines for bad behavior. Classroom Economics by teacher Shelby Lattimore has been praised for teaching children financial literacy and giving students a way to theoretically earn an income by working in the […]

Update on UCLA professor suspended for not giving black students special treatment after George Floyd’s death suing university for $19 million

A UCLA professor has been suspended for not giving preferential treatment to black students in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The professor is suing the University of California, Los Angeles, for more than $19 million over a highly publicized incident that gained national notoriety. Gordon Klein, an accounting lecturer at the Anderson School of […]

Stanford students protest new ban on overnight sit-in camping

Stanford University students are protesting the school’s new ban on overnight sit-in camps. Pro-Palestinian students who have been camping outdoors for 112 days protesting the Israel-Hamas war called on their supporters to rally against the university after the university announced the ban on Thursday night. in Thursday’s statementthe university said it would no longer allow […]

Maryland middle school students taken to hospital after bus overturns

Maryland State Police are investigating the cause of a crash Thursday afternoon in Columbia in which a bus carrying middle school students ran off the road and overturned, with multiple occupants being evaluated for injuries. Photos of the single-vehicle accident show the full-size school bus on the grass on the side of a two-lane road, […]

Educators, students get creative in evading book bans

Educators and students have found creative ways to get around book bans in states and schools across the country in recent years. Inside and outside the classroom, teachers, parents, and young readers with vested interests have complained that free versions of books have been pulled from shelves in schools in primarily Republican-led states because lawmakers […]