Children worldwide have suffered “a nearly insurmountable” loss of learning due to prolonged school closures during the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Monday.
Saudi Arabia’s government reopened all of the Kingdom’s elementary schools and kindergartens on Sunday after a nearly two-year-long suspension of in-person learning for children aged 5 to 11 due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.
Outrage has erupted in France over the revelation that the nation’s Education Minister had announced further COVID measures for schools while on vacation in Ibiza.
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) agreed a return to in-person classes late Monday night but not before organizers called Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) “relentlessly stupid … relentlessly stubborn” in negotiations over coronavirus safety precautions.
President Joe Biden blamed states on Wednesday for experiencing coronavirus testing shortages in schools.
Children from low-income families worldwide will need “seven to eight years to recover and return to pre-COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] child poverty levels” according to a recently published report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Latin American news site Infobae reported Monday.
As the anniversary of the January 6, 2020 riot at the U.S. Capitol nears, A.P. reports that teachers are planning lefist lessons on the event.
From the 4th of January, English school children will be once again required to wear masks in schools by the government.
Greece’s education ministry threatened to “deprive” parents of “custody” over their children on Thursday if they refuse to comply with masking and testing mandates enforced on primary and secondary school students during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Alexandros Koptsis, the general secretary
Some schools in California are using social justice tactics to try to repair the damage done to school-age children over the past almost two years of coronavirus lockdowns and remote learning.
SCOTUS heard oral arguments in a Maine case on whether students can use state aid to attend schools that provide religious instruction.
Parents in South Korea have expressed “anger” in recent days against a looming federal mandate that will require children aged 12 to 17 years to provide proof of vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus to enter public spaces “frequented by students, including cram schools, internet cafes, and public study rooms” starting in February, Yonhap reported Monday.
The government of India’s national capital territory, Delhi, ordered all schools and colleges in the city to close on Friday until further notice citing air pollution marking the second such mandate in less than three weeks.
Seizing on the fervor surrounding Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s unlikely victory in a blue state, Republicans across the country gearing up for the midterms are promising a major education reform push, focused on parental rights and educational standards.
Republican North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum signed into law on Friday a bill recently passed by the state Senate banning Critical Race Theory.
Several school districts in Democrat states across the country are canceling classes and returning to remote learning, citing “coronavirus concerns” and “widespread teacher exhaustion,” USA Today reported on Thursday.
The Washington Post published an opinion article on Tuesday titled “Democrats Are Lying About Critical Race Theory.”
New York has now launched a contest that will give vaccinated 5-11-year-olds a full-ride scholarship to any state university.
El Salvador’s government will use surplus profits earned from cryptocurrency investments to build 20 new schools across the Central American country, El Salvador’s Diaro La Huella newspaper reported Monday. “I want to announce that with a few million that we
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said Democrats have allowed themselves to get on the wrong side of education, even though “It’s a no-brainer” that “you’ve got to show you have room for all kinds of
Fears that Halloween might offend certain children have caused several elementary schools to cancel the holiday this year.
Taliban Education Minister Mullah Noorullah Munir declared last week his country’s aim to replace all educational content which “contradicts” radical Islamic sharia law or Afghan traditions, noting that music would no longer be “compatible” with it.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Tuesday reported the Taliban has quietly permitted teenage girls to return to school in four of Afghanistan’s northern provinces, ostensibly because Taliban 2.0 is willing to “shape policy around cultural differences across Afghanistan, unlike in the 1990s, when they imposed harsh social rules on everyone under their rule.”
After announcing a vaccine mandate for K-12 students once the FDA approves the shot for all ages, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed two laws on Tuesday banning the use of “forever chemicals” in children’s products and disposable food packaging.
Childless left-wing leaders seek to indoctrinate children to propagate their political agenda into the future, J.D. Vance.
The multi-trillion dollar price tag on what the Democrats are calling regular and human “infrastructure” bills is in the headlines, but if the legislation passes the change, it will bring will come at a cost to the American way of life.
A Catholic high school reoffered a job to a lesbian in a same-sex marriage after a protest by parents, students, and alumni.
Saturday was the first day of school for secondary students in Afghanistan but only boys and male teachers were allowed into the classroom.
Civics platform Kidizenship is urging children aged 8-18 to join its contest by writing and singing their own national anthem.
Women in Afghanistan may continue studying at universities, including at the post-graduate level, but classrooms must be gender-segregated and enforce an Islamic dress code, the newly formed government of the Taliban terror group announced Sunday.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the higher education minister in the new Taliban government said Sunday.
President Joe Biden told students at a school on Friday he would invite them to visit the White House if everyone got vaccinated.
Media reports say some women judges were able to escape Afghanistan ahead of the Taliban takeover but others who remain fear for their lives.
The Virginia Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s reinstating a teacher in Loudoun County who refused to comply with the school district’s policy forcing all staff and students to use only pronouns for students’ chosen gender rather than their biological sex.
The Taliban put a senior member of the Haqqani family in charge of higher education in Afghanistan on Sunday, soon after the Biden State Department’s astonishing, and verifiably false, assertion that the Taliban and the Haqqani Network are entirely separate entities.
Afghanistan’s only all-girls’ boarding school announced Tuesday plans to relocate to Rwanda to protect its students from the Taliban terror group, which seized control of Afghanistan on August 15 and previously forbid girls from receiving an education the last time it ruled the country from 1996-2001.
Taliban leaders in Afghanistan’s western Herat province issued their first fatwa — a formal Islamic ruling — since retaking control of the country, segregating government and private university classrooms by gender, according to a Saturday report from the Khaama Press News Agency.
Mask-wearing mandates for young children in schools offer many positive benefits according to a recent New York Times op-ed which claims that masks
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) said the CDC’s “guidance” for masking children to prevent COVID-19 transmission is unsupported by scientific data.
The Taliban terror group’s reconquering of Kabul on Sunday broke the “shackles” of a “cultural enslavement” Afghanistan endured since the U.S. invaded the country in 2001, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, a hardline Islamist, argued on Monday.
