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National News Apr 8, 2021 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Ebele Azikiwe was in the sixth grade last year when February came and it was time to learn about Black history again. She was, by then, familiar with the curriculum: Rosa Parks, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a discussion on slavery. Just like the year before, she said, and the year before that. Then came George Floyd’s death in May, and she wrote to the administration at her school in Cherry Hill, in New Jersey’s Philadelphia suburbs, t...

11 hours ago in National, Trending Ebele Azikiwe, 12, poses for a photograph in Cherry Hill, N.J., Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Azikiwe testified in October at state Assembly hearing, lending her support to legislation requiring New Jerseys school districts to add diversity to curriculums. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed the bill into law. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Photo: Associated Press By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Ebele Azikiwe was in...

Mike Catalini Ebele Azikiwe, 12, right, cooks with her mother, Rume Joy Azikiwe-Oyeyemi, at home in Cherry Hill, N.J., Wednesday, March 24, 2021. Ebele testified in October at state Assembly hearing, lending her support to legislation requiring New Jerseys school districts to add diversity to curriculums. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed the bill into law. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) April 08, 2021 - 5:39 AM TRENTON, N.J. - Ebele Azikiwe was in the sixth grade last year...

Harvard Environmental Health and Safety, a department of Campus Services, advised University affiliates to suspend use of hand sanitizers containing the human carcinogen benzene, including one brand purchased by Harvard, in a Monday email. The guidance comes after pharmaceutical testing company Valisure published a March 24 citizen petition identifying brands of hand sanitizer that it found contain benzene, a chemical known to cause cancer in humans. Though temporary U.S. Food and Drug Administ...

Fishermen are getting a chance to cast their rod and reel from the Jensen Beach Causeway for the first time in months.

With Connecticut students falling behind learning to read during COVID-19, proposed Right to Read Act seeks to help Amanda Blanco, Hartford Courant With growing concerns about Connecticut’s achievement and opportunity gaps widening throughout the coronavirus pandemic, some educators and state lawmakers are pushing forward a bill that would help regulate how students learn to read. Popular Searches “The pandemic has had this impact on all of our students, especially our stude...

Back to school 2.0: Middletown students full of smiles, giggles as full in-person classes resume FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Students at Van Buren Moody Elementary School in Middletown returned to their classrooms Monday morning on the first day of four-day-a-week in-person learning. Most children district wide have been operating on a remote / hybrid model of learning for a full year. Here, Principal Jen Cannata, rear, celebrates with Kids Korner students ahead of bus drop-off.Cassandra Day / He...

Middletown school district innovating its food service offerings Press Staff FacebookTwitterEmail The Middletown Board of Education is located at 300 Hunting Hill Ave.Cassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut Media MIDDLETOWN — The impact of nutrition and food access on the well-being of Middletown students is an important part of the broader strategic planning and efforts by the school district. With this “tremendous” impact in mind, Middletown Public Schools has embarked on its most significan...

1:05 Hybrid learning is better at preparing Connecticut students to move on to the next grade than remote learning — that’s according to a report from a nonprofit on education during the COVID-19 pandemic. About two thirds of Connecticut students have used hybrid learning, which includes some in-person class time. About three quarters of hybrid students were passing enough classes to move on — while just over half of students who learn entirely remotely were ready to advance to the next g...

If conditions are favorable, Middletown school board to reexamine sending older students back FacebookTwitterEmail Middletown Public Schools students and educators have been working in hybrid mode since the start of the academic year in September. Here, second-grade student works behind a protection shield at a socially distanced desk at Wesley Elementary School.Contributed photo / Allison Shelley for ‘American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action’ MIDDLETOWN — Board of Ed...