4 d. ago Carluke High Mill receives Gardening with Young People award from RHS Keep Scotland Beautiful

The majority of the work has been done in partnership with Street Level who are working collaboratively with Carluke High School and the Carluke Youth, Family and Community Learning team.

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6 d. ago Father and daughter die from bee stings after crashing car into a hive at the side of the road

Silvana da Fatima Braganca da Luz, 54, was attacked by the insects after she lost control of her truck and smashed into a beehive by the side of the dirt track she was on.

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6 d. ago Family pays tribute to 'loving' father, 26, killed in car park attack

Navpreet Singh, 26, was randomly attacked in a Wolverhampton car park in the early hours of Wednesday.

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7 d. ago A storied Los Angeles high school band had fallen on hard times. Then along came Mr J

Inglewood’s program had been chain-sawed by financial challenges and the pandemic, but Joseph Jauregui built it back up – and his students are winning scholarshipsJoan Rosas says educators as early as kindergarten flat-out told him he wasn’t capable. “I got horrible grades,” he said. “I could barely read until eighth grade when I figured out how to teach myself.”The Inglewood high school sophomore says he received little meaningful support for his learning challenges and, under the circumstances, grew to dislike school. Eventually, he started acting out, trying things like smoking. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sick sex messages school teacher sent to girl, 14 – but then he learned the truth

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: The man contacted the girl on Snapchat, telling her he was 18, before asking to be her boyfriend and offering to buy her anything she wanted

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1 week ago Inside San Francisco’s new AI school: is this the future of US education?

The private Alpha School says its students can learn faster and better – but experts warn not all may benefit from an AI boom in schoolsIn the world’s tech innovation epicenter, an “AI-powered” private school has made headlines for unabashedly embracing the technology.Alpha School San Francisco, which opened its doors to K-8 students this fall, is the newest outpost of a network of 14 nationwide private schools. Its learning model entails just two hours of focused academic work per day, during which the school says students can learn twice as fast as their counterparts in traditional schools – with the help of artificial intelligence. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago What is A Good Marriage by Stephen King about? BTK Killer connection explained

Netflix viewers across the world are curious about A Good Marriage after watching true crime documentary My Father, the BTK Killer

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2 w. ago How is the BTK Killer linked to A Good Marriage by Stephen King?

Netflix viewers are curious about the connection between the real-life serial killer and the fictional story

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2 w. ago Thousands of Scots pupils forced to learn in crumbling school buildings rated 'bad' or 'poor'

EXCLUSIVE: Anas Sarwar challenged the SNP Government to invest in schools after receiving a record devolution settlement from Westminster.

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3 w. ago Top London girls' school goes 'smartphone free' to tackle online harm and disruption to learning

Pupils will be allowed to have ‘brick’ phones but smartphones will be confiscated until end of half-term

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3 w. ago This free speech group at Columbia is taking on Trump when the university won’t – and winning

The Knight Institute is defending free speech at a school now synonymous with compromising on itWhen he first learned that federal agents had detained Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil in the lobby of his university housing complex, Jameel Jaffer knew he was in for a fight.Jaffer is the director of a Columbia-affiliated institute devoted to the defense of the first amendment, and Khalil, a green card holder, had been a fixture at the pro-Palestinian encampments on campus. Months earlier, Jaffer’s organization had hosted a symposium about the free speech rights of noncitizens. The institute had been established to defend the very constitutional principles the Trump administration was now openly flouting – and that Columbia seemed too scared to defend. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Kerri Rawson’s father gave her a car in high school. Years later, she learned he was the BTK killer – and had stashed his final victim in the trunk

‘Can you imagine finding out your father is one of the most evil people on earth?’ That haunting question opens the trailer of My Father, the BTK Killer, the new Netflix documentary premiering on October 10 – and it’s a question Kerri Rawson has lived with for 20 years. Andrea Cavallier delves into the shocking case as it’s being retold by his own daughter

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3 w. ago What does BTK Killer stand for? Netflix drops chilling true crime

True crime fans can’t miss out on this documentary

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3 w. ago Inside a parents’ group chat about raising kids in violent times

The Guardian’s parenting WhatsApp group discusses the recent spate of school shootings and political violence – and how they explain it to their kids“I have been emotionally at my wit’s end with the violence.”Gabriela Rangel is a glass dispatch coordinator in California City, California, and mother to a five-year-old. Like many parents across the nation, she was horrified to learn about the 27 August shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Inside a US parents’ group chat about raising kids in violent times

The Guardian’s parenting WhatsApp group discusses the recent spate of school shootings and political violence – and how they explain it to their kids“I have been emotionally at my wit’s end with the violence.”Gabriela Rangel is a glass dispatch coordinator in California City, California, and mother to a five-year-old. Like many parents across the nation, she was horrified to learn about the 27 August shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Pensioner, 68, is 'lucky' to be alive after driver smashed into her stationery car leaving her with horrific facial injuries on eve of her father's funeral

Sheila Chatfield, 68, had been cleaning her car outside her house in Cossall, Nottinghamshire on August 25 when a Mini driver lost control and hurtled into the rear end of her parked vehicle.

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4 w. ago Rashielea Primary School celebrates inspection report success

The Erskine school was commended for its leadership of change, learning, teaching and assessment in a recent assessment from Education Scotland.

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