Bob CollinsTybre Faw, of Tennessee, is 10. He’s in the fourth grade. He knows who John Lewis is, which probably puts him ahead of a lot of fourth graders. On the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, he traveled to Selma to meet a civil rights hero. Read more →
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Education
It took a Massachusetts school superintendent to do what a girls basketball coach could not: apologize for running up the score in a sectional playoff game.
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The kids of Garretson, S.D., on the Minnesota border, have learned a valuable lesson. Adults may want young adults to be more civically engaged, but they’re mostly lying.
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When’s the last time you used a pencil? When’s the last time you used a keyboard?
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The Brainerd Dispatch reports that mostly boys — big shock — are mimicking ‘obscene and disturbing behavior’ in the video series. Symptoms apparent include Jeffy’s signature moves of fondling his crotch and humping a box of Cheerios.
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The last thing teachers and students need right now is some guy walking into buildings, past the administration area where he’s supposed to sign in, into his kid’s classroom and handing the teacher a cardboard gun. Read more →
School districts are caught in the middle in an upcoming national protest against school shootings. And they do not agree on how it should be handled. Read more →
A call in Bemidji, Minn., to join a planned nationwide protest over school shootings did not survive a school superintendent’s review, the Bemidji Pioneer reports today.
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Let’s get rid of all the rules that prevent students in school from having their smartphones with them at all times. In the current reality, they’re a lifeline. That much seems obvious after the school shooting in Florida.
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An exhibit last fall illuminated a racist past at the University of Minnesota, forcing leaders to confront its own history. Now, a student government group is urging a building honoring a segregationist be renamed. Read more →
Let’s just say parent Mandy Berkhof wasn’t that impressed when she went to a Sioux Falls elementary school on Tuesday to have lunch with her daughter. Read more →
Sting is a good dog.
And there he was last week, on duty at the White Bear Lake Library, waiting for kids to show up to read to him.
Nobody showed up, apparently. Read more →
Garrison Keillor has been erased from the University of Minnesota’s ‘Scholar’s Walk’, a tribute to famous alumni. Read more →
The story about two books being removed from the curriculum in Duluth is missing an important question: How come nobody asked the teachers? Read more →
If you’re smart enough to become a university professor, you ought to be smart enough not to wish the president of the United States dead when giving a lecture. Read more →