Etiqueta: colegio
Mississippi school district upholds teacher’s firing for reading I Need a New Butt! to kids
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The firing of a Mississippi assistant principal for reading pupils a humorous children’s book, I Need A New Butt!, has been upheld by his school district. The book describes a boy who tries to find a new bottom after ...
US identifies more than 50 Native American boarding school burial sites
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A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for more than a century sought to assimilate indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools that were suppor...
‘Absolutely disgraceful’ school toilets causing medical issues for NSW students, la investigación escucha
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Disgusting toilets and overcrowded, demountable classrooms are pushing more parents to send their children to private schools, an inquiry into New South Wales public school infrastructure has been told. A state parlia...
Sixty feared dead in Russian airstrike on Ukraine school
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Sixty people are feared to have been killed after a village school in eastern Ukraine took a direct hit in a Russian air raid, with rescue attempts said by the regional governor to be impossible due to constant shelli...
Dave Eggers offers to replace books a South Dakota school board wants to pulp
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Dave Eggers, author of dystopian satire The Circle, has said he will provide free copies of his novel to schools in South Dakota, as well as copies of four other books that have been banned in the district’s schools. ...
UK aid cuts have forced 40,000 Syrian children out of school, charity says
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Más que 40,000 Syrian children are out of school as a direct result of British aid cuts and more schools could soon close, a leading charity has said. British funding for 133 schools run by Syria Relief ended on 30 ...
Investigation finds school failed vulnerable children and misled Ofsted
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An independent investigation into allegations of misconduct at a top London state school – including safeguarding breaches, discriminación, bullying and favouritism – has found that “on the balance of probabilities” e...
Why ending school exclusions isn’t easy
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The call to ban permanent exclusions in primary schools (Informe, 29 abril) is an admirable aspiration, but misses an important point. Our multi-academy trust comprises special, alternative and mainstream provision. We...
School exams: a major flaw in the UK’s education system
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Full marks to George Monbiot for his critique of the English school exam system (England’s punitive exam system is only good at one thing: preserving privilege, 27 abril). He asks what would a fair, rounded 21st-centu...
Ofsted criticises archdiocese over ban on gay author’s visit to Catholic school
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Attempts to oust a school’s governors who supported a visit by a gay author left staff and pupils “feeling angry, confused and frustrated,” Ofsted has said. Ofsted said its snap inspection of John Fisher school in Pu...
Suspect in shooting that injured four near Washington school found dead, la policía dice
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A gunman opened fire on random victims from a sniper’s nest on the upper floor of an apartment building near an elite prep school in Washington, wounding four people before taking his own life as police burst into his...
Rap the casbah: the Casablanca school giving young hip-hop stars a voice
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‘Hip-hop didn’t just come out of nowhere,” explains young teacher Anas to his even younger class in Casablanca Beats. He speaks of the “poverty, racism and humiliation” experienced by hip-hop’s African-American founde...
‘I’m at a money-hungry school’: Athletes angry as colleges shun chance to pay them
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In its athletic department’s mission statement, UCLA promises to “recruit only student-athletes who exhibit both an interest in the academic component of undergraduate life and the potential to succeed in the increasi...
National teacher’s union ‘concerned’ by lack of detail in Labor’s public school funding policy
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The teacher’s union has criticised Labor’s education policy for a “concerning” lack of detail about when public schools will get extra funding. Australian Education Union president, Correna Haythorpe, welcomed the pol...
How to turn a school around with love: ‘People are so very grateful that we care’
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Every child deserves an ice-cream. It’s a strange opening remark from a primary headteacher, but then Chris Dyson is an unusual man, a big-hearted softie with a daft sense of fun – at least, that’s how pupils describe...
‘I don’t want any stage school brats!": Sylvia Young on nurturing Billie Piper, Daniel Kaluuya and a host of stars
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Sylvia Young rescues me from the noise and chaos of what seems like 100 schoolchildren singing and dancing and jumping around the entrance to the Sylvia Young Theatre School, but is probably only around 20 – these are...