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Hackers Steal US School Data, Exposing Over 5 Lakh Students
Hackers hit the San Diego Unified School District's computer system and obtained access to a file that had detailed personal data on more than 500,000 students going back a decade, authorities said.
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Hillary Clinton To Girl Who Lost To A Boy: "I Know Too Well... Not Easy"
Eight-year-old Martha Kennedy Morales got a huge surprise when she opened a personal letter sent to her home. It was from Hillary Clinton, who was consoling Martha for losing an election for class president to a boy -- by a single vote.
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He Was The Heart Of His School. What Grieving Students Did When Head Custodian Died
When the children returned to school, they were stunned to learn that Wirth had died. He was 63. "That constant male figure in their life was yet another hard loss for some of them to endure," Neely-Randall wrote.
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"You'd Be Lynched If...": White Teacher Warns 13-Year-Old Black Student
A white social studies teacher at an Ohio middle school told a 13-year-old black student he would be lynched if he didn't stop talking in class and focus on his work.
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A School Sought 50 Men To Stand In For Absent Fathers At 'Breakfast With Dads' - Nearly 600 Showed Up
Something somewhat extraordinary happened last month at Billy Earl Dade Middle School in Dallas.
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Trump's Influential Son-In-Law Went To Harvard - Is This How Jared Kushner Got In?
Daniel Golden is the editor of ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. In 2004, he won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a series of Wall Street Journal articles exposing how some wealthy white families can use assets - cash and political connections - to get their childr...
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How Much Sleep do Children Really Need? New Recommendations From Experts
Experts say that more than a third of the U.S. population doesn't get enough sleep.
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Was Albert Einstein Really a Bad Student Who Failed Maths?
Gravitational waves detection again underscores the prodigious genius of Einstein, whose work fundamentally changed the way humans view and understand their world.
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Was Albert Einstein Really A Bad Student Who Failed Math?
There is huge news in the science world: Scientists just announced that they have detected gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes in deep space - something predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
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ADHD in Kids: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know and Understand
There seems to be a never-ending stream of research reports about attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD - the most commonly diagnosed neuro-behavioral disorder in U.S. children.
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Hackers Steal US School Data, Exposing Over 5 Lakh Students
Hackers hit the San Diego Unified School District's computer system and obtained access to a file that had detailed personal data on more than 500,000 students going back a decade, authorities said.
-
Hillary Clinton To Girl Who Lost To A Boy: "I Know Too Well... Not Easy"
Eight-year-old Martha Kennedy Morales got a huge surprise when she opened a personal letter sent to her home. It was from Hillary Clinton, who was consoling Martha for losing an election for class president to a boy -- by a single vote.
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He Was The Heart Of His School. What Grieving Students Did When Head Custodian Died
When the children returned to school, they were stunned to learn that Wirth had died. He was 63. "That constant male figure in their life was yet another hard loss for some of them to endure," Neely-Randall wrote.
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"You'd Be Lynched If...": White Teacher Warns 13-Year-Old Black Student
A white social studies teacher at an Ohio middle school told a 13-year-old black student he would be lynched if he didn't stop talking in class and focus on his work.
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A School Sought 50 Men To Stand In For Absent Fathers At 'Breakfast With Dads' - Nearly 600 Showed Up
Something somewhat extraordinary happened last month at Billy Earl Dade Middle School in Dallas.
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Trump's Influential Son-In-Law Went To Harvard - Is This How Jared Kushner Got In?
Daniel Golden is the editor of ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. In 2004, he won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a series of Wall Street Journal articles exposing how some wealthy white families can use assets - cash and political connections - to get their childr...
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How Much Sleep do Children Really Need? New Recommendations From Experts
Experts say that more than a third of the U.S. population doesn't get enough sleep.
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Was Albert Einstein Really a Bad Student Who Failed Maths?
Gravitational waves detection again underscores the prodigious genius of Einstein, whose work fundamentally changed the way humans view and understand their world.
-
Was Albert Einstein Really A Bad Student Who Failed Math?
There is huge news in the science world: Scientists just announced that they have detected gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes in deep space - something predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
-
ADHD in Kids: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know and Understand
There seems to be a never-ending stream of research reports about attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD - the most commonly diagnosed neuro-behavioral disorder in U.S. children.
