The adoptive mother of a Black teenager with special needs filed a lawsuit against the city of Burlington, claiming police officers used excessive force when they arrested her son after he allegedly stole a handful of vape pens in 2021. The civil action, filed on Jan. 30 in Vermont Superior Court, will be handled by […]
Tag: Teach
My teen is always begging me to buy them stuff. How do I teach them about spending?
The Stanley cup discourse — as in, the currently highly covetable $45 water bottle that people are snatching up — has reached a fever pitch. As the Cut recently reported, tweens and teens have been caught up in the craze, begging their parents to buy them multiple tumblers (one to match every outfit, natch) and […]
‘The way they teach makes it clear and easy’
Jan. 25—James Foley’s homework comes with horsepower. And the points he has to support during papers and presentations, more often than not, involve load-bearing walls. James, a senior at Clay-Battelle Middle /High School and the Monongalia Technical Education Center, is the district’s Student of the Month for January. He sat down for an interview with […]
California school district’s phone policy is 20 years old. Teachers say they can’t teach, need support
Fresno High social studies teacher Peter Beck has been trying a new approach to prevent his students from being distracted by phones during class. He spent last year’s teaching material budget on three chargers, each with ten USB ports, and some cords. “When we come in, here’s my expectation, you’re going to hook up your […]
GEC to launch TECH Talks series to teach residents about Superfund sites
Jan. 20—A new series offered by Glynn Environmental Coalition aims to provide a resource for residents seeking a better understanding of the four hazardous waste sites in Glynn County. Glynn Environmental Coalition will kick off its virtual TECH Talks series at 6:30 p.m. Monday in hopes of giving the community accessible information about the county’s […]
AI Can Teach Math Teachers How to Improve Student Skills
This article was originally published in The Conversation. When middle school math teachers completed an online professional development program that uses artificial intelligence to improve their math knowledge and teaching skills, their students’ math performance improved. My colleagues and I developed this online professional development program, which relies on a virtual facilitator that can – […]
Pink Diamond Ladies teach traditional values
Jan. 13—Amber Basares started thinking about becoming a lady — not just a woman or a female, but a lady — when she watched her young niece try to step into a pair of her high heels around Christmas one year. “To see her step into my shoes, a light went off,” Basares said. “It […]
Legislation Introduced to Require K-12 Education to Teach Mistreatment of Native Americans
California Assemblyman James C. Ramos (San Manuel of Mission Indians). (Photo/Courtesy of Assembly James C. Ramos Office) Legislation was introuduced in the California Assembly that would require the mistreatment endured by Native Americans to be taught to K-12 public school students in the state.California Assemblymember James C. Ramos, the first California Native American elected to […]
Delaware has a chance to teach our kids financial literacy — in and out of the classroom
House Bill 203, sponsored by state Rep. Jeff Hilovsky, R-Millsboro, would require high school students, beginning with students entering the 9th Grade in the 2025-2026 school year, to take and pass a minimum of a half-credit course on financial literacy in order to graduate. This bill follows previous legislation enacted in 2016 that established a […]
How one 34-year-old is using TikTok to teach himself to read
“What’s up! I can’t read.” That’s how Oliver James began the viral video that launched his TikTok account, @oliverspeaks1, where he now documents his reading journey to over 130 thousand followers. “I went in my van and I pretty much just said 5 words … and that just started the whole entire journey on TikTok,” […]
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy
As Barton began his presentation, I slipped away to a parlor room at the back of the sanctuary. Connelly wanted me to meet three local pastors who stood for truth. Seated around a large, rectangular folding table were Connelly; Donald Eason, the pastor of Metro Church of Christ in Sterling Heights; Jeffrey Hall, the pastor […]
What Sandra Day O’Connor Could Teach Today’s Supreme Court
But in other important ways, O’Connor eschewed a facile ideological template that would lend itself to easy forecasting. For her critics, her approach to the law could seem erratic and unpredictable. For those looking more closely, however, her decisions and her reasoning demonstrated a constant attention to the proper role of the Supreme Court as […]