(Photo by Getty Images) Most Washington K-12 students failed to meet basic math and reading proficiency standards in recent years, according to a new report. The analysis from the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows that in 2022, 66% of Washington fourth graders were not proficient in reading and 72% of eighth graders were not proficient […]
OAKVILLE, Mo. – First grade students at Rogers Elementary School have been focusing their lessons on writing skills, increasing their vocabulary, and strengthening their grammar over several months through writing to pen pals. “They have really loved this project. This has given them a real purpose for their writing and given them a real opportunity […]
It has been 10 years since two 12-year-old girls attacked their friend and left her for dead, in a Morry Gash, Pool / AP ; Michael Sear/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool Anissa Weier, left, and Morgan Geyser May 31, 2024, marks 10 years since two 12-year-old girls — Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier — attacked […]
LONGVIEW, Texas (KETK) – Longview second graders at Bailey Elementary were helping out people in Baltimore recently by submitting designs for their bridge replacement. Kristen Ishihara leaves council meeting as Longview mayor “The students in my class, as IB learners, wanted to take their knowledge of construction and help design a safe bridge for the […]
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — On May 1 of 2012, the friends of two 8th graders at Kipp Believe College Prep gathered to remember them and console one another. Christine Marcelin and Brandon Adams were girlfriend-boyfriend, and both were murdered days apart. 12 years later, the cases remain unsolved and are the latest one to roll […]
Apr. 22—JAMESTOWN — Fifth grade students from Washington Elementary School and Medina Public School won a contest to name a Jamestown city blade and Stutsman County plow, respectively. Riley Schafer, assistant emergency manager of Stutsman County, said a Name the Plow Contest was held in partnership with the city of Jamestown. The event was one […]
Two Medford elementary school students distributed orange whistles to 70 postal workers Saturday to protect them from danger or possible attacks. Savannah McLaughlin and Adam Costello are in fifth grade at the Brooks School, and came up with the idea after hearing about a postal carrier attacked on Halloween in the city. “If you ever […]
NASHVILLE. Tenn. (WKRN) – It’s big demand from some of Nashville’s smaller residents. Two seventh grade students penned a letter recently and didn’t stop until it made it to the governor himself. The letter consists of three handwritten pages, (excerpts from the letter are included in this story and are in italics) but the issue […]
Six Massachusetts eighth graders face criminal charges in connection with “hateful and racist comments” in a group chat that allegedly included threats and a mock slave auction, officials said. The group chat unfolded on Snapchat on Feb. 8 into the early morning hours of Feb. 9 among multiple juveniles in Southwick, a suburb of Springfield, […]
Three Arcanum-Butler Local Schools students are being credited with saving the life of a man last month. On Jan. 19, Eighth-grade students Kale Kramer, Leland Neumaier, and Cooper Tegtmeyer were shoveling snow for people to earn some money. Toward the end of the evening, they went to Butch Stringer’s home and knocked on the door. […]
A school year is 180 days, with no two days and no two schools exactly alike. The students differ, the teachers differ, school cultures differ. Here, our photographers find what makes our school days anything but ordinary, the people and programs and events that make a difference, school day in and school day out. Check […]
Measuring cups, a vacuum, Bingo cards and a divorce lawyer. That’s what seventh-grade students students believe that adults — sorry, 30-year-old adults — want for Christmas. The hilarious and humbling answers came from middle school kids in Palm Springs, California after their teacher Shane Frakes asked, “What do you buy someone in their 30s for […]