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Rebecca Judd has given up on homeschooling and is now letting her son supervise her daughter

She's got her hands full juggling her busy career while raising four children. 




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Rebecca Judd raises questions she's still sending her children to school despite working from home

She has spent the past few weeks home schooling her children after education facilities closed in Victoria due to the coronavirus pandemic.




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Uber Eats launches £6 boxes that can be ordered in time for the school run

Uber Eats is rolling out the Lunch Box Shop in London and Birmingham from Monday. The three options, each priced at £6, include a main, fruity side and chocolate.




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Girl arrested for threatening to shoot up her high school

The teenager, who hasn't been identified but attends Edison High School in Fresno, had posted a photo on Snapchat of a gun display case in Walmart.




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Florida police arrest 12-year-old girl for posting a mass shooting threat toward a middle school

Authorities arrested a 12-year-old girl on Thursday after she posted a mass shooting threat toward Burns Middle School (pictured) in Brandon, Florida, on Snapchat.




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Private school pupil who broke into girl's house and sexually assaulted her jailed for eight years 

Aaron Irvine, 19, a former pupil at fee paying Bedford Modern School dressed all in black and wore a balaclava and latex gloves during the assault at the girl's secluded home in Bedfordshire countryside.




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Predatory paedophile, 22, is jailed for 12 years for forcing himself on schoolgirls, 12 and 15

Dewan Gazi, 22, messaged 95 teenagers on the social media app Yubo over a period of 12 days after claiming to be 17 years old. He was jailed for 12 years at Manchester Crown Court.




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Oregon mom is arrested for having sex with 14-year-old at her daughter's school she met on Snapchat 

Rheta Leanne Melvin, 36, is accused of having sex with the 14-year-old boy in the back of her car in Riddle, Oregon. She admitted to sending him sexually explicit photos and videos on Snapchat.




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High school students unfurl Confederate flag and make homophobic comments in response to pride flag

Students at West Plains High School in Missouri waved a confederate flag inside their high school's cafeteria in retaliation to 60 pride flags being handed out to fellow students.




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Virginia Catholic school investigates after picture of student in BLACKFACE mask emerges 

A racially offensive photo was reportedly posted on social media by a high school student in Richmond, Virginia, and showed a white female student in uniform wearing a blackface mask.




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Oklahoma high school volleyball coach, 40, is charged with rape

Joyce Churchwell, 40, surrendered to police on Tuesday after a warrant was issued for her arrest on a charge of first-degree rape in Tulsa County, Oklahoma.




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Snapchat selfies and lewd comments Bulldogs player Jayden Okunbor sent to a 16-year-old schoolgirl

Canterbury Bulldogs star Jayden Okunbor asked a 16-year-old schoolgirl he invited to his hotel room to send naked photos on Snapchat.




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Manchester United's foundation donates £300,000 to its partner high schools and colleges

United have pledged £10,000 to each site to provide food, clothing, energy, medication, IT equipment and other essentials for vulnerable families.




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Hilarious moment Malaysian girl runs the wrong way after taking the baton in school race 

A Malaysian school pupil has captured hearts across the internet after she accidentally ran the wrong direction in a school sports day relay race. The footage was captured in Perak.




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PETER HITCHENS: Matt Hancock is trying to run the UK like my 1950s prep school 

Until I started travelling in the Communist world, my main experience of living under tyranny was my time at a boarding school on the edge of Dartmoor, 60 years ago, PETER HITCHENS writes.




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Philip Weickhardt banned from teaching after making sexual comments at Mandurah school

Philip Weickhardt, 53, a teacher at Foundation Christian College in Mandurah around 70km south of Perth was found to have made inappropriate comments between 2017 and 2019.




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Mother-of-seven shares her back to school station complete with bags, shoes and a bookcase

An Australian mother-of-seven has shared an image of her family's school bag station on social media, which helps her children stay organised during the term.




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Chris Hemsworth admits he's struggling to homeschool his hyperactive children  

Even Hollywood's hottest celebrities can't escape the stress that comes with homeschooling their children during the coronavirus pandemic. 




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Christina Applegate reveals daughter Sadie's school library is her 'happy place'

The actress, 48, said she's a big hit with students when it comes to story time. 'I read a book and they like it because I do a bunch of accents and they think that's funny,' she said.




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Saraswati idols to go up at 582 South Delhi schools

Deity of learning to appear at South Delhi Municipal Corporation schools and announced that Saturdays at its schools will be books and bag-free.




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14 schools seek CISF checks after brutal schoolboy murder

CISF has been approached following the brutal murder of Pradyuman Thakar in September. Another boy had his throat slit in an attempt to 'delay school exams' by older pupil.




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Lockdown: Mothers in villages use household items to homeschool kids

While parents in cities are tutoring their children at home using digital tools and technology amid the ongoing COVID-19-induced lockdown which has led to closure of schools, those in villages are utilising simple household items like fruits, buttons and pulses to homeschool kids. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced a nationwide lockdown from March 25 to April 14 and urged the country of around 1.3 billion people to stay home in view of the coronavirus outbreak. The restrictions were first extended till May 3 and again extended till May 17. The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,981 and the number of cases climbed to 59,662 in the country on Saturday, registering an increase of 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union health ministry. As most of the educational institutions in cities across the country are offering online classes due to the lockdown, parents too are chipping in to educate their kids at home using iPads, tabs and ...




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Are we celebrating too much too soon? | The DNA Bill is a recipe for disaster | When schools and parents clash


As India celebrates her 69th year of Independence, we take a look at the ramifications of the Supreme Court's ruling on allowing an unwed mother to be the sole guardian of the child without the consent of the child's father, a dissent note on the final draft of the Human DNA Profiling Bill which the government wanted to pass in the latest parliament session, why the modern parents and the school authorities lack mutual trust and respect, the conundrum of energy deficit and energy surplus in different parts of India, how the old fishing villages in Mumbai are in danger of disappearing, and more.




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Why ‘skilling’ India must focus on schooling


The thrust on vocational skills and values among the youth has more often looked at solutions based on extraneous skill-development modules. E S Ramamurthy explains why a more skilled future workforce must entail fundamental reforms in schooling.




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A mother's touch at school


An innovative program of education for young children achieves the twin objectives of encouraging more families to send their girls to school, as well as giving the teachers a greater sense of autonomy over their own lives. Malvika Kaul reports on the Mother-Teacher Programme.




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Missing chapter in history of universal schooling


The centenary of admitting Dalit children into public schools in Kerala is an opportunity to remember Ayyankali, whose leadership of the movement isn't part of mainstream history. A proper retelling of this history is now the responsibility of a new generation of historians, writes N P Chekkutty.




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Relief critical to stem school dropouts


With tens of thousands still displaced over a week since the Tsunami disaster, some schools are yet to reopen and others are seeing low attendance. And as children wait anxiously in TN relief camps, more awe-inspiring stories are emerging. Krithika Ramalingam reports.




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School choice looms for poor students


Government schools are unable to deliver quality education in most cases. This has prompted some to argue for vouchers - coupons from the government to be given to parents that would let them admit their children in private schools instead. Krithika Ramalingam reports on a movement that is gathering steam.




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In 2009, bonded and bundled out of school


Stone quarries, brick kilns, sand mining and silk weaving are stealing SC/ST children out of school in Kancheepuram and Thiruvallur districts of Tamilnadu. Krithika Ramalingam reports on the hard reality these children face.




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Poor parents pushing children into English schools


Recognising that government schools with their Tamil medium education do nothing to ensure a good career path or ensure employment, parents are stretching themselves to make the shift in rural Tamilnadu. Still, plenty of challenges remain reports Krithika Ramalingam.




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Caste discrimination persisting in U.P. schools


On Independence day, a District Magistrate in U.P. handed over three teachers of a primary school to the police, during a surprise school visit. School children are among the worst sufferers in the state; they continue to pay for a system they neither moulded nor understand. Puja Awasthi reports.




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When schools and parents clash


Lack of open communication between parents and school authorities is diminishing trust and respect between them. This in turn has caused many unfortunate incidents that could have been avoided, reports Puja Awasthi.




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Forget B-School: D-School Is Hot

The hottest graduate program is one you may have never heard of: Stanford's d.school, which teaches the murky concept of "design thinking." Melissa Korn has details on Lunch Break. Photo: Alison Yin for The Wall Street Journal.




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A good school for Maqbool


The refrain of late has been that a Muslim middle class is developing, implying that Muslims are beginning to do well in the country. Why, then, is it so hard to find Muslim children in elite schools, asks Firdaus Ahmed.




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Home-schooling citizenship


Instead of imposing top-down controls on behaviour from the Supreme Court downward, would a better solution to our problems be to shift norms from the family outward, asks Rajesh Kasturirangan.




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Our own schools


With help from formal learning centres, CRY, and the Dalit and Adivasi Liberation Trust, Orissa's forgotten villages work to control their own destinies.




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Manipur schools closure: boycott enters third month


For over two months, young Manipuris have boycotted schools and colleges in the state. Two killings in broad daylight in Imphal, including one allegedly custodial, have resulted in the deadlock. Thingnam Anjulika Samom has more.




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Assam's high schools and colleges - a mixed bag


The Assam government has claimed credit for the rise in pass percentages in high schools in recent years. But, reports Ratna Bharali Talukdar, a closer look at the numbers shows there is still much room for improvement in state-funded education in high schools and colleges.




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Their secret status and a risky schooling


HIV-positive children are being thrown out of school in Uttar Pradesh by insensitive teachers and parents alike. Many parents are afraid to let schools know that their children are positive, and the state's machinery has failed to raise any awareness, as a major study has shown. Puja Awasthi sounds the warning bells.




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Alarming malnutrition pushing children out of school - I


Tamilnadu leads the country in nutritional interventions and yet has alarming levels of hunger in children. Research indicates that is a very likely cause of poor schooling achievement and drop-out rates, reports Krithika Ramalingam.




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Alarming malnutrition pushing children out of school - II


NGOs have fared better than the government in tackling iron deficiency in poor children. Activists, policy analysts and funders want a convergence of various departments as opposed to boxing nutrition into the health-sector alone. Krithika Ramalingam completes her two-part inquiry.




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How fire-safe are our schools?


The majority of civil fire incidents happen due to lack of clear laws and a blatant disregard for existing rules and regulations, assert Harminder Kaur and Bhargavi S Rao. The authors look at the Karnataka situation.




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Parents' oversight in schools stalled


The pressing need for direct participation of citizens in public oversight has always contrasted with the eagerness of political parties to penetrate virtually all public offices. In Karnataka, school development monitoring committees were the latest to fall victim to this imbalance. Subramaniam Vincent reports.




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School meals make slow progress


School authorities say, and records show, that while enrolment has not been substantially improved as a result of mid-day meal programmes, school attendance has certainly gone up by 10-12%. However, there is still plenty of room for improvement in the management of the scheme. Padmalatha Ravi reports.




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Bringing disabled kids back to school


When a teacher specially trained to handle children with special needs started work at a local government school in Bangalore, children were benefited and stopped dropping out. Padmalatha Ravi has more.




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People's school for water literacy


A private high school in Sirsi, in northern Karnataka is not stopping at imparting academic education. It has also started teaching practical water literacy to the people of five Malnad districts. The rain centre at the school, with 28 examples of rain water harvesting, opened in early June. Shree Padre reports.




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Where Suvarna Jala fails, schools leap ahead


It's a classic headline: "Government-funded rainwater harvesting for public schools goes wrong, money wasted". However in one district, the tale is altogether different. Shree Padre records the positives and the lessons.




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Tackling preventable blindness through screening in schools


Various independent studies and research reveal close to 20 per cent of students across India suffering from some degree of visual impairment. A new initiative from the Nayonika Eye Care Charitable Trust seeks to correct this through the combined efforts of a wider network.




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A school for me too


The Nanagu Shaale programme of a Karnataka-based NGO shows why the national Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan's provision of home-based education for children with special needs may in practice defeat the ideological objective of inclusion. Satarupa Sen Bhattacharya reports.




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School soft drink bans mirror global concern


There is now a growing body of opinion against soft drinks in particular and fast food in general being marketed to children through the media and directly in schools. A number of private schools in Mumbai have already stopped sales of colas in their canteens. Darryl D'Monte has more.