MOSCOW—The Russian government will request flights out of Afghanistan in September for Afghan students who are planning to study in Russia, the embassy said in a statement on Tuesday. The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan could stop hundreds of Afghans from taking up university places in Russia or continuing with classes that have moved online during…
Moscow to Request Flights for Afghan Students Permitted to Study in Russia: Embassy
Texas Parents Seeking to Homeschool Increases Five-Fold From 2020 Record
The number of Texas families pulling their children out of public schools and pursuing homeschooling in one week this month is five times greater than the same time period last year, the Texas Homeschool Coalition reports. “We are literally inundated with calls and emails from thousands upon thousands of families asking how they can begin…
Hong Kong Students Charged With ‘Advocating Terrorism’ Denied Bail
August 19, 2021
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HONG KONG—Four Hong Kong student leaders charged with “advocating terrorism” after their union passed a motion last month mourning the death of a 50-year-old who stabbed a policeman before killing himself were denied bail on Thursday. The four, aged 18–20 and all from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), are the latest democracy activists to…
High School Teens Invent Baby Adaptation for Dad’s Wheelchair After He Lost Ability to Walk
Thanks to a few innovative high school students, a father who lost his ability to walk can now get around, unassisted, with his newborn son in his stroller. It started when 10 of Matt Zigler’s students at Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, were tasked with coming up with an invention for one of his colleagues….
Good, True, Beautiful: Great Literature for Middle-School Students
Some readers may be homeschooling their children this year. Others may have enrolled them in private, public, or charter schools. But whatever means we have selected for our children’s education, the desired end results for all of us are pretty much the same. We want our kids to leave high school not only with a…
28 Abducted Baptist School Students Freed in Nigeria
KANO, Nigeria—Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. Church officials handed those children over to their parents at the school on Sunday. But the Rev. Israel Akanji, president of…
COVID Vaccine Policies Handled Inconsistently Throughout China
Conflicting orders from Chinese authorities at the central and municipal levels were issued throughout the past week regarding mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. The Chinese Communist Party has handled vaccine mandates for students and government workers in an inconsistent manner. Several provincial governments either mandated vaccination or required vaccine certificates for students to enroll in the coming…
COVID-19 Vaccine Policies Handled Inconsistently Throughout China
Conflicting orders from Chinese authorities at the central and municipal levels were issued throughout the past week regarding mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. The Chinese Communist Party has handled vaccine mandates for students and government workers in an inconsistent manner. Several provincial governments mandated vaccination or required vaccine certificates for students to enroll in the coming school…
California Postpones New Social Justice Math Framework
July 15, 2021
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The California Board of Education voted unanimously to postpone a new mathematics framework that incorporates ethnic and social justice studies after critics argued it would “de-mathematize math.” The board postponed the Mathematics Curriculum Framework—a document guiding how teachers should implement the state’s math standards—during its July 13 meeting, following a letter signed by 468 higher educators and business leaders in the fields of science,…
Kidnapped Nigerian Students Freed After Ransom Paid
KADUNA, Nigeria–Six students and two officials who were kidnapped last month from a school in Nigeria’s Kaduna state were released after relatives paid ransom money, a school official and parent said on Friday. Kidnappings by armed men, commonly referred to in Nigeria as “bandits”, have become endemic in northern Nigeria, disrupting the education of hundreds…
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