All schools in the Mamaroneck Union Free School District in Westchester County, N.Y. were locked down Thursday afternoon after a man carrying a gun tried to enter through a locked door at Hommocks Middle School. The man left without incident.
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Remembering the Victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
The hideous massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary claimed the lives of 20 young students and six adults. The victims were siblings and grandchildren, educators and mentors. As America mourns their deaths, details emerge of the lives …
Schoolgirl Shot by Taliban Flown to U.K. for Treatment
14-year-old Malala Yousafzai is being airlifted from Pakistan to a hospital in Birmingham for skull surgery and neuro rehabilitation.
Georgia School District Hopes Mandatory Mandarin Classes Can Boost Graduation Rate
A Georgia county looks to the world’s second-largest economy to fix its education system
Poor Chinese Schools Tell Students: Bring Your Own Desks
Preparing for the first day of school is a ritual around the world: collecting notebooks and pencils, filling up backpacks, choosing what to wear to your new classroom. But for some Chinese students, their back-to-school …
Princeton Is Top of the College Heap, According to Forbes
The list values metrics like alumni prominence and professor evaluations and penalizes schools for high student debt loads and default rates.
Watch Teachers Stealth-Prank Their Students, Disco Style
Is this the best teacher prank ever? Who cares, we’re dancing!
6-Year-Old Suspended for Singing LMFAO
A Colorado first-grader has returned to class after receiving a suspension for belting out the inescapable “Sexy and I Know It”. Now, his parents are fighting back.
Cory Booker Reminds Us All He’s Still a Superhero
Newark mayor Cory Booker has a storied history of inserting himself into situations many high-and-mighty politicians wouldn’t go near. He’s famed for forming a very close and transparent relationship with his constituents …
Five-Year-Old Boy Takes Heroin to Show and Tell
A 5-year-old boy brought a heroin-filled jacket to his kindergarten class for show and tell, authorities said Tuesday.
Detective Keith Bryant, a Bridgeport Conn. police spokesman, told the Connecticut Post that the boy arrived …
‘The Scary Guy’: Meet the Bully Who’s Anti-Bullying
Schools worldwide are paying as much as $6,500 a day to hire a tattooed, pierced and bearded ruffian with no credentials to impart anti-bullying wisdom to pupils, reports CNN.
The Scary Guy, once an average fellow who went by …
Oakland Massacre: Seven Killed at Christian Nursing School
Several people died after gunfire erupted at Oikos University, a Christian school in Oakland, Calif.