Education
Latest Stories
exchange_galapagos_bound_47099.jpg
In this April 5, 2017 photo, Lincoln Magnet School teacher Layne Zimmers teaches sixth- grade world history at the school in Springfield, Ill. Zimmers has been chosen as a 2017 Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow. Later this year she'll study the unique wildlife of the Galapagos Island with Lindblad-National Geographic expedition experts. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)Journal-Register via AP)
jazz_fans-pink_grandmas_29582.jpg
Keido Mori's daughters Stephanie Mori-Nakao and Theresa Sueoka thumb through Keiko's senior high school yearbook with her sister Yeiko Homma. Chances are that if you've been to a Utah Jazz basketball game, you've seen Keiko Mori and Yeiko Homma on the jumbo screens. The two women always dressed in pink jerseys at Jazz games are known locally as "The Pink Grandmas." (Leah Hogsten /The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
exchange_amputee_baseball_17416.jpg
In this Wednesday, April 19, 2017 photo, Luke Terry, who bats third in the Cornersville Middle School lineup, makes contact during the game against Cascade Middle School in Lewisburg, Tenn. Luke had his right arm amputated at 19 months. He had contracted E. coli and it eventually attacked the arm. (Helen Comer/The Daily News Journal via AP)
1967_ford_pickup_bench_66428.jpg
In this Tuesday, April 25, 2017 photo, Pullman High School senior Brandon Libey sits in his 1967 Ford bench outside his home in Pullman, Wash. Libey built the bench as his high school senior project with mentor Steve Myers, Jr. The bench was inspired by a 1967 Ford F-100 Libey's grandfather, Gary Beedy, owned. (Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)
stem_real-world_application_90062.jpg
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, MAY 6-8 - In this April 26, 2017 photo, Paula Birchler, center, of Lautenbach Industries, talks to a group of students about dealing with plastic waste during a STEM innovation session at Sedro-Woolley High School in Sedro-Woolley, Wash. (Scott Terrell/Skagit Valley Herald/Skagit Valley Herald via AP)
oregon_teen_pilot_78323.jpg
In this April 4, 2017, photo, Crescent Valley High School junior Ruth McCullough and her flying instructor Dallas Enger prepare to depart for a flying lesson at the Corvallis Municipal Airport in Corvallis, Ore. (Andy Cripe/The Corvallis Gazette-Times via AP)
oregon_teen_pilot_74344.jpg
In this April 4, 2017, photo, Ruth McCullough a Junior at Crescent Valley High School pre-flights a Cessna 172 before a flying lesson at the Corvallis Municipal Airport in Corvallis, Ore. (Andy Cripe/The Corvallis Gazette-Times via AP)
mexico_violence_20635.jpg
Students march at Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM) after a young woman was found dead on campus in Mexico City, Friday, May 5, 2017. The woman's body was found on May 3 tied to a phone booth in the gardens next to UNAM's engineering school, according to a university statement. Her identity and cause of death were not immediately known. The banner reads in Spanish "Clarification of femicide. May 3, 2017. Not one less!" (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
iowa_athletics_trial_02290.jpg
Jane Meyer, former senior associate athletic director at the University of Iowa, gets a hug from her partner Tracey Griesbaum, right, following a news conference, Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Des Moines, Iowa. A jury on Thursday awarded more than $1.4 million to Meyer ruling that the university had discriminated against her because of her gender and sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Cheltenham High School.jpg
An out-of-control brawl between four girls at Cheltenham High School, just north of Philadelphia, reportedly left seven teachers and three safety officers injured, sending one teacher to the hospital. (ABC 6)
dress_code_crackdown_08628.jpg
In this Wednesday, May 3, 2017 photo, Allyanna Jones stands outside Wilby High School in Waterbury, Conn. The 16-year-old junior was among more than 150 students suspended for dress code violations on April 21. The crackdown has brought attention to high suspension rates in the district. (AP Photo/Michael Melia)
racist_posts-school-suspension_15392.jpg
In this March 26, 2017 photo, people attend a rally for the Albany for All to support unity and inclusiveness in response to racist and offensive posted on social media, at Albany High School in Albany, Calif. Four Albany High School students sued a school district after they were suspended over their responses to Instagram posts that included a black student and coach with nooses around their necks. (Chris Treadway/East Bay Times via AP)
georgia_uga_graduation_61006.jpg
Soon-to-be graduates, Callie Rittweger, left, and Ashley Owen, right, from the University of Georgia's Franklin College of Arts communications program, pose for photos at the Arch, Thursday, May 04, 2017. The university will be having its graduation ceremony May 5 at Sanford Stadium. Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed legislation allowing guns on Georgia's college campuses today also. (John Roark/ Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
utah_teacher_salary_82660.jpg
ADVANCE FOR USE FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2017, AND THEREAFTER- In this April 18, 2017, photo provided by KUER-FM, Spencer Campbell, Assistant Principal of Elk Ridge Middle School, helps students cross the street at the end of a school day in South Jordan, Utah. Campbell is one of two assistant principals at Elk Ridge and it’s his first year. Last year he was teaching 9th grade English at a school up the road. (Lee Hale/KUER-FM via AP)
fraternity_house_deadly_fall_15790.jpg
This Oct. 31, 2014, photo provided by Patrick Carns shows Timothy Piazza, center, with his parents Evelyn Piazza, left, and James Piazza, right, during Hunterdon Central Regional High School football's "Senior Night" at the high school's stadium in Flemington, N.J. Prosecutors in Pennsylvania are set to announce, Friday, May 5, 2017, the results of a grand jury investigation into the death of the Penn State student, Timothy Piazza, who fell down steps Feb. 4, during an alcohol-fueled pledge ceremony. (Patrick Carns via AP)
IMG_6730.JPG
Dessert course at District restaurant The Palm. (Eric Althoff/The Washington Times)
5_4_2017_beltway-berkeley-an8201.jpg
Demonstrators protest against Ann Coulter and her recent scheduled appearance on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. (Associated Press)
university_of_texas_stabbings_53495.jpg
FILE - In this May 1, 2017, file photo, officials investigate after a fatal stabbing attack at the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas. An arrest affidavit said the University of Texas student accused of stabbing multiple students, one fatally, told police he didn't remember attacking anyone. Kendrex J. White, who authorities have said suffered from mental health troubles, was charged with murder in Monday's campus attack. He remained in jail Thursday, May 4, 2017, on $1 million bond. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
schoolhouse_sex_assault_one_schools_story_44992.jpg
ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo, a school buses drives through Estill, S.C. Estill Middle School stands out as having one of the nation's largest single sexual assault cases reported on school grounds - at least four students, ages 11 to 14, were victimized by as many as 30 kids in 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
schoolhouse_sex_assault_one_schools_story_76415.jpg
ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a bible message is written on a sign outside a store along the town's business district in Estill, S.C. Most parents in the town have no choice but to send their children to the public schools. More than 90 percent of students at Estill Middle School receive free or reduced lunch. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
