After the release of Taylor Swift’s 10th studio album, Midnights, fans began analyzing the lyrics to uncover their meanings. Amid the buzz, a TikTok user named Jessica McLane, who claimed to have attended high school with Swift, shared insights into what life was like for the pop star during her teenage years at Hendersonville High … Read more
Both mosque and school sheltered displaced civilians in central Gaza and dead include children GAZA: Israeli airstrikes targeted a mosque and a school, sheltering displaced civilians in central Gaza, killing at least 24 Palestinians, including children, and 93 others injured early Sunday morning. The Gaza government’s media office confirmed the attacks, saying the Israel Defense … Read more
Every morning after breakfast, Afghan teenager Prina Muradi turns on the television – not to watch films or cartoons, but to study maths, science and literature. Muradi, 16, has not been to school since 2021 when the Taliban seized the country and barred girls from secondary education. But now she is racing to catch up, … Read more
A firefighter sprays water on a burnt-out bus that was carrying students and teachers on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, on October 1, 2024. — AFP Rescuers pulled children’s bodies from the charred wreckage of a Thai school bus Tuesday after an accident turned the vehicle into an inferno, with more than 20 feared dead. … Read more
This year, Roosevelt expanded the policy to cover all electronics, including Google Chromebooks when not directly in use in a classroom. Additionally, the policy allows no room for warnings. Once a student’s electronic is spotted by a teacher or administrator, it is placed in the front office for the day. Students collect confiscated phones after … Read more
Students at OIHS drop out at nearly half the rate that newcomers students do at other Oakland high schools. The school’s success comes largely from the community school model, which co-locates essential services on campus, ensuring easy access for students and families. The model adheres to the principle of “Maslow before Bloom,” which suggests that … Read more
Curriculum Associates did not detect as much deterioration as NWEA, but did find widespread stagnation in 2023-24, according to a report released on August 19, 2024. Their researcher Kristen Huff described the numerical differences as tiny ones that have to do with the fact that these are different tests, taken by different students and use … Read more
This analysis is evidence that widespread grade inflation, which has also been documented by the ACT, the National Center for Education Statistics and independent scholars, has persisted through 2023. In this transcript analysis, grade inflation occurred more frequently for Black and Hispanic students than Asian and white students. It was also more common for low-income … Read more
by TeachThought Staff Welcome to a new school year! While most teachers and students have so much to look forward to as the new school year begins, at times the groans you will hear from the students are almost as loud as the more subtle groans of the teachers. The end of summer is always … Read more