Elementary Education

Police: Kids Plotted to Hurt Teacher

Submitted 137 days ago

A group of children ages 8 to 10 apparently mad at their teacher because she had scolded one of them, plotted to injure and then tie her up, authorities say

Topic: Elementary Education

Police: Girls fall sick after teen provides methadone

Submitted 153 days ago

Nine middle-school girls were sickened after apparently eating methadone pills supplied by a 16-year-old boy, police said.

Topic: Elementary Education

Cops: Third-graders plotted attack on teacher

Submitted 141 days ago

A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.

Topic: Elementary Education

7-year-old brings loaded guns to school

Submitted 141 days ago

A 7-year-old first-grader showed up at school Monday with two loaded handguns, Baltimore County, Maryland, police told CNN Tuesday.

Topic: Elementary Education

Kevin Armstrong: Heptathlete Krais following Joyner-Kersee's path

Submitted 112 days ago

After sinking her spikes into the starting blocks at Indianapolis's Michael A. Carroll Track & Soccer Stadium last June, 17-year-old Ryann Krais readied to rewrite the USA Junior Outdoor Track & Field Championships record book with her feet.

Topic: Elementary Education

China's Anguish on Children's Day

Submitted 71 days ago

A national holiday meant for kids brings only anger to parents whose children were killed in quake-hit "tofu schools"

Topic: Elementary Education

Little evidence of pregnancy pact, says mayor

Submitted 56 days ago

School counselors, teachers and families of students the principal said made a pact to get pregnant and have babies together have no information to back the claim, the mayor of Gloucester said Sunday.

Topic: Elementary Education

NABC weighs in on eighth grade commitments

Submitted 56 days ago

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- If college basketball coaches have their way, Michael Avery would be the last eighth grader making a college commitment.

Topic: Elementary Education

Schools Experiment by Paying Kids

Submitted 56 days ago

Schools, under pressure to boost student achievement, are offering incentives -- field trips and cash, for example -- to motivate students

Topic: Elementary Education

4 teens remembered as model Scouts

Submitted 56 days ago

Four Boy Scouts who died Wednesday when a tornado swept through a wilderness camp were remembered for the very qualities that had brought them to the camp in the first place.

Topic: Elementary Education

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