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Trying to control what kids read is a fool’s errand. Like Comstockery and Prohibition, it aims to make human beings into little saints. Ain’t never gonna happen.
Why care about 50-year-old textbooks? "The ideas expressed in the books, historically unfounded as many of them may be, are still widespread today.
At age 5, "I would arrange my stuffed animals in a half circle and 'teach' them, using my grandma’s old lesson planning books ...
A former pre-kindergarten teacher at Old Town Elementary School has been found not guilty by a judge of misdemeanor assault of a child, court records show. Keziah Felita Gibbons, 56, was acquitted ...
It’s also another victory for right-wing culture warriors who have been leading the movement to remove books from classrooms.
The Supreme Court voted to allow parents to withdraw their children from classroom LGBTQ+ lessons in public schools.
A Supreme Court ruling over a Montgomery County lawsuit gave parents the right to opt their kids out of lessons with LGBTQ+ ...
Children at Whittier Elementary cheered on local high school graduates as part of an annual tradition.
The board voted unanimously, 6-0, to close Magee Elementary School in Genesee Depot, which will take effect in fall 2026. Board member Tracy Brymer was absent from the meeting.
This was, at the time, both semi-comical and horrifying. But the kind of anti-Jewish brainwashing that was done on children’s television and in elementary-school textbooks was the subject of ...
Old School Square in Delray Beach, Florida, a historic complex including a museum, theater, and gymnasium, has been revitalized after a period of disuse and disrepair.