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7+ hour, 53+ min ago  (666+ words) America is preparing the next generation for a future defined by chronic disease, mental health challenges and widening health inequities. Yet the public health leaders best positioned to help families navigate those realities are already in our schools, quietly caring…...

23+ hour, 34+ min ago  (807+ words) Once eccentric outsiders, homeschoolers are now a lot like you and me. What Lane found in her research is that homeschoolers are far more diverse than many stereotypes suggest. "To put it succinctly," she writes, "the new homeschoolers were not…...

16+ hour, 8+ min ago  (127+ words) WSET ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WSET) " A Roanoke County homeschooling family is now taking its fight with the Virginia High School League to state court. On Monday, the Palmers filed a civil injunction in the county after withdrawing their federal lawsuit…...

21+ hour, 30+ min ago  (444+ words) A Brazilian court has sentenced parents Audato and Ieda Denardi to 50 days in prison for homeschooling their children. A judge convicted them of "intellectual neglect" for not including curriculum that includes "gender and sex education" and "tolerance and diversity" education....

19+ hour, 4+ min ago  (454+ words) Keene Middle School teacher Donna Fairbanks in 2016 when she received an Exceptional Teacher Award from the Keene Board of Education. Donna Fairbanks, a longtime local teacher who died this week, was beloved and respected at Keene Middle School where she…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (73+ words) Franklin County Free Press Franklin County Career Tech Students Assist Technology Department This Summer Franklin County Career and Technology Center students Nathan Armstrong and Gibson Ott are assisting the school's Technology Department as part of the summer staff. Both students…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (819+ words) Host Jessica Rey talks faith, family, and educating her children on location throughout Catholic Europe. Trips out of the country are few and far between for most American families. For Jessica Rey and her family, it's a regular part of…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (275+ words) Prime Publishers, Inc. To the Editor: Recently, I spoke with some parents of children with learning challenges who have been extremely frustrated with the support they have been receiving from the school system The teachers are great, they said, but…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (339+ words) Poor school attendance among disadvantaged children may be driven as much by family culture and routines as by economic hardship, according to an education expert responding to new research into absenteeism. Family routines and attitudes can have a lasting impact…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (414+ words) I did school online before it was cool. In the earliest decades of the modern homeschooling movement, such classes would have been unimaginable'not only because the technology for them didn't yet exist, but because homeschooling's dubious legal status made such…...