Jan. 26—Dozens of middle schoolers filed into the Spokane County Courthouse Friday morning with blank looks on their faces, unsure what to expect from the slate of Supreme Court Justices, judges and attorneys scheduled to speak to them. Then Justice Mary Yu, clad in bright purple, got up and gave her pitch. “Our court system […]
Job fair season is near for prospective educators. While the teacher shortage in California pre-dates the COVID-19 pandemic, local school districts in the Coachella Valley continue to expand their efforts in recruiting highly qualified teachers. At Desert Sands Unified and Palm Springs Unified school districts, prospective applicants have two upcoming events in February to interview […]
In the spring of 2018, Elizabethton High School teacher Alex Campbell gave his sociology class a wildly ambitious assignment: he asked them to solve a case, gone cold for decades, involving a potential serial killer. Elizabethton is a small city in northeast Tennessee bordering the Appalachian Mountains. In the 1980s, a police task force was […]
In 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that the national average of eighth-grade students’ civics scores declined for the first time in 24 years, when the civics assessment was first conducted in 1998. The same year, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation began the National Civics Bee in attempt to renew young […]
After one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history consumed their houses, schools, churches and businesses, the people of Lahaina see the chance for rebirth. The Aug. 8 inferno left 100 dead and many more displaced and injured. It also claimed over 2,000 buildings and 2,170 acres, including many family homes and structures that were […]