admin George Mason University’s Student Support and Advocacy Center received for the first time a $75,000 grant from the Virginia Department of Health to strengthen its peer education program and prevention efforts in the area of sexual and interpersonal violence. The grant is renewable for four additional years, resulting in a total of $375,000 for five … Read more
On Thursday, according to media reports and the Ukrainian Government, shells fired by separatists in the east, hit and damaged a kindergarten in the Luhansk region. There were no reported casualties. Attacks on kindergartens and schools have been a sad reality for children in eastern Ukraine over the past eight years. We call on all … Read more
Georgia state lawmakers are taking up several education-based measures in public schools. Those measures include limiting transgender students’ participation in sports, banning attempts to enforce a mask mandate, making it easier for parents to get books banned in libraries and forbidding educators from teaching certain race-based curricula. On Friday, the state Senate passed SB 377. … Read more
Alabama’s public charter schools may soon begin receiving county education funds, according to a piece of legislation that passed and amended from the Alabama Senate Thursday. The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, would allow county educational funds typically spent in Alabama public schools to follow students who attend one of the public … Read more
A SAGE journal has retracted 122 papers because of “clear indicators that the submission and/or peer review process for these papers was manipulated.” Those indicators, according to The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education: include but are not limited to submission patterns consistent with the use of paper mills, collusion between authors and reviewers … Read more
The rising cost of produce, skyrocketing gas prices and a lack of rental assistance have made it difficult for students like Jennifer Rahall – a single mom juggling three kids, two jobs and courses at Massachusetts Bay Community College – to stay afloat. But on-campus initiatives and resources can help. As a recipient of MassBay’s … Read more
For weeks, the school principal had been imploring Kemika Cosey: Would she please allow her children, 7 and 11, to get Covid shots? Ms. Cosey remained firm. A hard no. But Mr. Kip — Brigham Kiplinger, the principal of Garrison Elementary School in Washington, DC — swatted away the “no’s.” Ever since the federal government … Read more
Two years have passed since COVID-19 forced schools around the world to close their doors; a tectonic shift in daily life with effects still unfolding. It was March 11, 2020 when the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. By Friday, March 13, many schools here and beyond announced that campuses would cease in-person … Read more
news item | 18-03-2022 | 13:13 Anno 2022, our Dutch and British societies and industries have undergone significant digitalisation. The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us that education and learning is no longer something that can be, or should be, confined to a four-walled classroom. Educational Technology (EdTech) can help us overcome some of our society’s … Read more
Newswise—March 18, 2022 – Rates of suicide among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) veterans have risen sharply in recent years, reports a study in the April issue of medical care. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer. Age-adjusted suicide rates among AI/AN veterans receiving care in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system … Read more