By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Updated 4:00 am PST, Monday, January 28, 2019 Here are the 20 highest-rated school districts in the Bay Area for 2019, according to the real estate data company Niche. Here are the 20 highest-rated school districts in the Bay Area for 2019, according to the real estate data company Niche. Photo: Ariel Skelley/Getty Images Photo: Ariel Skelley/Getty Images Image 1 of / 27 Caption Close Image 1 of 27 Here are the 20 highest-rated school districts in the Bay Area for 2019, according to the real estate data company Niche. Here are the 20 highest-rated school districts in the Bay Area for 2019, according to the real estate data company Niche. Photo: Ariel Skelley/Getty Images The best Bay … [Read more...] about The best Bay Area school districts for 2019, according to Niche
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‘What if someone was shooting?’ Numerous school lockdowns are traumatizing kids
By Washington Post PUBLISHED: December 27, 2018 at 6:55 am | UPDATED: December 27, 2018 at 6:59 am By Steven Rich and John Woodrow Cox | The Washington Post Locked behind their green classroom door, MaKenzie Woody and 25 other first-graders huddled in the darkness. She sat on the vinyl tile floor against a far wall, beneath a taped-up list of phrases the kids were encouraged to say to each other: “I like you,” “You’re a rainbow,” “Are you OK?” In that moment, though, the 6-year-old didn’t say anything at all, because she believed that a man with a gun was stalking the hallways of her school in the nation’s capital, and MaKenzie feared what he might do to her. Three times between September and November, bursts of gunfire near MaKenzie’s public charter elementary school led DC Prep to seal off its Washington campus and sequester its students. During the last one, on Nov. 16, a silver sedan parked just around the corner at … [Read more...] about ‘What if someone was shooting?’ Numerous school lockdowns are traumatizing kids
Numerous school lockdowns are traumatizing kids
Steven Rich and John Woodrow Cox, The Washington Post Published 10:54 am PST, Wednesday, December 26, 2018 Gabrielle Woody, center, with her children, MaKenzie, right, and Kayden Imes at their DC Prep Charter Elementary School campus in Washington, D.C. Gabrielle Woody, center, with her children, MaKenzie, right, and Kayden Imes at their DC Prep Charter Elementary School campus in Washington, D.C. Photo: Washington Post Photo By Bill O'Leary Photo: Washington Post Photo By Bill O'Leary Image 1 of / 12 Caption Close Image 1 of 12 Gabrielle Woody, center, with her children, MaKenzie, right, and Kayden Imes at their DC Prep Charter Elementary School campus in Washington, D.C. Gabrielle Woody, center, with her children, MaKenzie, right, and Kayden Imes at their DC Prep Charter … [Read more...] about Numerous school lockdowns are traumatizing kids
Questioning real-world learning at ultra-Orthodox schools
Karen Matthews, Associated Press Updated 7:55 am CDT, Sunday, July 22, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-7', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 7', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP Image 1of/7 CaptionClose Image 1 of 7 In this July 18, 2018 photo, Pesach Eisen poses in front of a yeshiva he attended as a child in the Borough Park neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. Eisen, now 32, left his orthodox community in his late teens. Complaints that schools like Eisen's run by New York's strictly observant … [Read more...] about Questioning real-world learning at ultra-Orthodox schools
Oregon district accused of using Bible reading as punishment
Updated 9:32 am, Thursday, May 10, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-10', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 10', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-15', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 15', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-20', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 20', target_type: 'mix' }); … [Read more...] about Oregon district accused of using Bible reading as punishment