COVID-19 Has Left Millions Of Students Behind. Now What?

COVID-19 Has Left Millions Of Students Behind. Now What?

If a kid isn’t keeping up with peers academically, summer school seems like a no-brainer. Instead of forgetting what they learned during the school year while they’re on vacation for two months, they’re catching up and getting ahead. Which is why it was a surprise when a Rand Corporation study of summer school programs in … Read more

Mysterious golf ball-sized lump on student’s neck wasn’t mumps but something more dangerous

Mysterious golf ball-sized lump on student’s neck wasn’t mumps but something more dangerous

A student getting ready to go out clubbing made an unwelcome discovery on her neck as she prepared for a night out with friends. Layla Phillips was looking forward to spending time with her Swansea University friends but noticed something troubling when she began draping a necklace around her throat. An outbreak of mumps at … Read more

Indonesia court jails Islamic school teacher for life for raping students

Indonesia court jails Islamic school teacher for life for raping students

BANDUNG, Indonesia — An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced an Islamic school teacher to life in prison for raping 13 students in a case that has spotlighted the need to protect children from sexual violence in the country’s religious boarding schools. Judge Yohannes Purnomo Suryo Adi said that teacher Herry Wirawan had sexually groomed the … Read more

Norwegian boy finds boat launched in 2020 by U.S. middle school students

Norwegian boy finds boat launched in 2020 by U.S. middle school students

RYE, NH — A small boat launched in October 2020 by some New Hampshire middle school students and containing photos, fall leaves, acorns and state quarters has been found 462 days later — by a sixth grader in Norway. The miniature boat built by junior high school students at Rye, NH, sits on a dock, … Read more

Tennessee mom’s claim that her daughter’s Bible history teacher told students ‘how to torture a Jew’ leads to district investigation

Tennessee mom’s claim that her daughter’s Bible history teacher told students ‘how to torture a Jew’ leads to district investigation

A screenshot of an animated class video that a mom says appears to show a forked road with Christianity on one side represented by light and color, and a dark, shadowy path on the other.Courtesy of Juniper Russo A Tennessee mom alleges her child’s teacher discussed “how to torture a Jew” in a Bible history … Read more

Post-grad students inspired by Breaking Bad chop up teacher and dissolve body in acid

Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, 58, (pictured) was allegedly murdered by his student Dmitry Bykovsky, 35,and Alexander Kharlamov, 31, before his body parts were put in containers of acid in Voronezh, Russia in 2020.

Post graduate students Dmitry Bykovsky, 35, and Alexander Kharlamov, 31, are accused of killing Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, 58, in western Russia in March 2020 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, 58, (pictured) was allegedly murdered by his students Dmitry Bykovsky, 35, and Alexander Kharlamov, 31 Two university students said to have been inspired by a scene from Breaking Bad are … Read more

Suspect sought after yelling ‘all of you should be killed’ at Jewish students

Suspect sought after yelling ‘all of you should be killed’ at Jewish students

Chicago police are looking for a man who last month threatened a group of Jewish students at a school, yelling, “You should all be killed.” The incident happened just before 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 13 outside the Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi Academy on Chicago’s North Carolina Avenue. police said:. The suspect, described as a black man … Read more

Undocumented Students Still Need Support

Undocumented Students Still Need Support

Protesters rally on Foley Square demanding citizenship now for all undocumented immigrants. (Lev Radin/Getty Images) It took Farah Said almost seven years to complete her undergraduate studies as an undocumented student in New York City. After enrolling in CUNY City College’s Childhood Education Program and completing 113 credits, Said was told she could not graduate. … Read more

Oakland University, Central Michigan University mistakenly award scholarships to students

Oakland University, Central Michigan University mistakenly award scholarships to students

A university in Michigan said Friday it erroneously notified students that they would receive top tuition awards, just days after another school in the state said its prospective students were mistakenly told they had won full-ride scholarships. Oakland University, north of Detroit in Rochester Hills, said in a statement that due to human error its … Read more

How Students Seized The Year

How Students Seized The Year

Ohio State University students are holding a sit-in to protest the Columbus Police Department’s murder of MaKhia Bryant in April 2021. (Jeff Dean / Getty) This story was produced for Student Nation, a Nation Fund for Independent Journalism program devoted to highlighting the best in student journalism. You can find other student nations in our … Read more