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Islamic school condemned after leaflets claiming music is an ‘act of the devil’ are found
Июнь 19, 2016
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Islamic school condemned after leaflets claiming music is an ‘act of the devil’ are found

AN ISLAMIC independent school has been slated by Ofsted after inspectors found leaflets claiming music and dancing were “acts of the devil”. Inspectors arrived unannounced at the Darul Uloom Islamic High School in Birmingham, which they previously rated “inadequate”. Ofsted officials expressed concerns...

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‘I am very sorry’ says grandfather who picked up wrong child from school
Июнь 02, 2016
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‘I am very sorry’ says grandfather who picked up wrong child from school

A grandfather has apologised after failing to realise the child he was collecting from school was not his grandson. The incident occurred in South Carolina on May 19 when Joseph Fuller, 65, drove to Edisto Primary School to pick his grandson up. According to an incident report from Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office, Fuller...

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Angelina Jolie appointed as professor at the London School of Economics
Май 26, 2016
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Angelina Jolie appointed as professor at the London School of Economics

Actress, Director and goodwill Ambassador of the UN for refugees Angelina Jolie will read to students at the London school of Economics a course of lectures on the impact of global militarization on women. One of the most famous universities in the UK, the London school of Economics, got a rare chance: one of the new courses on...

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Thailand school dormitory fire kills 17 schoolgirls
Май 23, 2016
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Thailand school dormitory fire kills 17 schoolgirls

At least 17 girls have been killed by a fire which swept through their school dormitory in northern Thailand. The fire broke out on Sunday evening when many of the girls, aged between five and 13, were asleep, said police. One official told AFP that 38 students had been in the dorm at Pithakkiart Witthaya school in Chiang Rai,...

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‘I hope he’s roasting in hell’: Deadliest school massacre remembered 89 years later
Май 20, 2016
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‘I hope he’s roasting in hell’: Deadliest school massacre remembered 89 years later

   The passing of nearly nine decades hasn’t diminished a 104-year-old man’s view of Andrew Kehoe, the evil mastermind of the May 18, 1927, Bath School Disaster, a bombing that took the lives of 38 children as they attended class. George Baird, 104, now lives in an assisted living facility in Bath...

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Segregation in US Schools Persists 62 Years After Court Ruling
Май 18, 2016
Culture

Segregation in US Schools Persists 62 Years After Court Ruling

The words are some of the most iconic to ever come out of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.  Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that in his 1954 opinion in the...

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First Gender-Neutral Restroom Opens At Los Angeles School
Апрель 16, 2016
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First Gender-Neutral Restroom Opens At Los Angeles School

A Los Angeles high school on Friday opened the first gender-neutral restroom in the nation’s second-largest school district, and likely the state, in a move geared toward accommodating transgender students. Santee Education Complex converted a second-floor girls’ restroom after the campus Gay Straight Alliance...

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Texas Teacher Arrested for Allegedly Hitting Student
Апрель 12, 2016
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Texas Teacher Arrested for Allegedly Hitting Student

A Texas school district placed a teacher on administrative leave after a video surfaced appearing to show her hitting a student in class, resulting in her arrest. “The Beaumont Independent School District can confirm that an Ozen High School teacher was arrested today for physically assaulting a student,” district...

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Harry gets his hands dirty rebuilding a earthquake-damaged school in Nepal
Апрель 06, 2016
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Harry gets his hands dirty rebuilding a earthquake-damaged school in Nepal

PRINCE Harry certainly got his hands dirty after deciding to stay in Nepal for six days to help rebuild an earthquake-damaged school at the end of his official tour of the country. Pictures released today show how the fifth in line to the throne got involved in some heavy lifting when he joined British charity volunteers in the...

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Teachers SLAM primary school tests as ‘damaging and a health threat to children’
Март 20, 2016
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Teachers SLAM primary school tests as ‘damaging and a health threat to children’

TEACHERS are set to boycott primary school tests after condemning the “testing culture” as “damaging” and causing a threat to the health of children. Testing and labelling of children as "successful" or "failing" is leaving young pupils demotivated and difficult to educate, according...

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Judge Revokes Bail for Former Prep Schooler Owen Labrie
Март 19, 2016
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Judge Revokes Bail for Former Prep Schooler Owen Labrie

A judge has revoked bail for prep school graduate Owen Labrie, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a classmate last August, after prosecutors accused him of missing his court-ordered curfew several times. After the decision, which was made at a hearing this afternoon in Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, N.H.,...

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Primary school warns over parents ‘using cannabis’
Февраль 17, 2016
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Primary school warns over parents ‘using cannabis’

  Some parents have been seen "using cannabis" while dropping off and collecting their children from a primary school, it has been revealed. St John's CofE Primary School in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, issued a letter after parents reported the class B drug "being used" around the site. The...

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