Sweeping changes in the curriculum will soon cast the Russian president as a pivotal historical figure and mark an end of openness to the West.
Tag: Education (K-12)
Hawaii, the last state with an indoor mask mandate for public schools, will make masks optional.
Masks will become optional in Hawaii’s schools when the new academic year starts on Aug. 1, as the state tries for “a more normal classroom experience this fall,” a state health official said.
Sri Lankan Father Sees Protests As Education for His Children
Mohammad Imran’s children have barely attended school because of the nation’s economic crisis. And he says his salary barely covers the basics.
At a Boarding School in Ukraine, Displaced Children Long for Home
Many left their parents behind when they were evacuated from the country’s east. Now they wrestle with the trauma of a conflict that has consumed much of their young lives.
In New Textbooks, Hong Kong Was Never a British Colony
The books are part of China’s effort to instill a particular historical narrative and to stress patriotic education in a city where a pro-democracy movement was crushed.
For Russian-Speaking Ukrainians, Language Clubs Offer Way to Defy Invaders
Many Ukraine citizens speak Russian as their first language. Volunteer organizations are helping them improve their Ukrainian and abandon “the occupiers’ language.”
These U.S. Schools and Universities Are Reimposing Indoor Mask Mandates
The moves are a sign that while the academic year may be coming to a close, the pandemic is still not.
Philadelphia Schools Reinstate Mask Mandate
With cases rising again, the superintendent said that as the pandemic evolves, “so too will our response to it.”
Report Catalogs Abuse of Native American Children at Former Government Schools
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland called for a review last year, after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves of children who attended similar schools in Canada.
In Europe’s Schoolyards, Putin’s War Hurts Russian-Speaking Children
Across the continent, pupils face bullying, harassment and humiliation over the invasion of Ukraine, another perverse effect of a war that is overwhelmingly affecting the innocent.