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Sixth-Grade Girl Shoots Students in Idaho Middle School; Disarmed By Teacher By Pablo Luna / Friday, 07 May 2021 01:17AM An unnamed sixth-grade girl at an Idaho middle school was disarmed by a teacher after shooting three people with a handgun. The girl who lives in Idaho Falls shot two students and a custodian at her Rigby middle school on Thursday before police arrived. It is believed that the shooter should be around 11 to 12 years of age given that that’s the age of most sixth-grade students in the United States. Although the police are still investigat...
Upton pushing for more 'middle-skills' education funding Sentinel Staff WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Fred Upton is among the lawmakers pushing for more federal funding for non-traditional post-secondary education, referred to as "middle skills." Middle-skills jobs are occupations that require some additional education or training after high school, but not necessarily a college degree. Upton, R-St. Joseph, along with other lawmakers, signed a bipartisan letter urging the House Appropriations Committee to emphasize middle-skill education in its upcoming report for the fiscal year 2022 budget "Du...
Census Data Shows Phenomenal Homeschool Growth April 13, 2021 It started as an effort by several federal agencies to track how American families were faring during the COVID-19 pandemic—whether they had jobs, if they had enough to eat, and how their kids were being educated. The survey ended up hinting that the number of homeschooling families in this country has doubled—a remarkable trend that is just beginning to be studied and understood. According to the US Census Bureau (USCB) Household Pulse Survey, at least 5 million American parents have decided to educate their children entir...
Participating in elementary school gifted programs is associated with reading and math achievement for the average student, though the observed relationships are small. Black and low-income students do not see the academic gains that their peers experience when receiving gifted services. There is no evidence that participating in a gifted program is related to nonachievement outcomes such as student absences, engagement in school, or whether a student leaves or stays in a school.