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WATCH: Art Car Kids | Mockingbird & Armadillo
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UPDATE: 10 Dead And 10 Wounded At Santa Fe High School Shooting, Suspect Charged With Capital Murder
Posted on · Suspect Dimitrios Pagourtzis has been charged with capital murder in the school shooting. He was denied bond at a hearing earlier Friday. Mayor Turner said Texas school districts should consider installing metal detectors in all campuses.
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UPDATE: 14-Year-Old Used Rifle In California High School Shooting
Posted on · Palmdale is north of Los Angeles in the high desert Antelope Valley
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When A High School Football Player Meets A Brain Injury Researcher
Posted on · High School athletes often raise money door-to-door for their teams. In Newton, Mass., a football player rang the doorbell of a leading brain injury researcher. Instead of money, he got a talk.
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UPDATE: Georgia Teacher Barricades Himself In Class, Fires Gun; No One Hurt, Police Says
Posted on · Police didn't immediately say why the teacher fired the gun, but noted that he aimed away from anyone into an exterior window as the principal tried to unlock the classroom door
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Pediatricians Call For Universal Depression Screening For Teens
Posted on · The nation's leading group of pediatricians has updated its guidelines for tackling teen mental health issues. One recommendation: Annual depression screening for all adolescents 12 and older
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In 59 Seconds-Will the students movement make a difference? How?
Posted on · Brandon Rottinghaus and Jay Aiyer explore whether the future voters demanding significant changes in gun laws are in a position to achieve what they are seeking
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Number Of Texans Earning GED Down More Than 40 Percent From 2003
Posted on · A study by the Center for Public Policy Priorities found just over 21,000 Texans took and passed the GED exam in 2016, compared to more than 36,000 just 13 years earlier.
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UPDATE: Students Hid In Locked Classroom During Shooting
Posted on · Police didn't release details about the shooter but confirmed the other two people killed Thursday at Aztec High School were students
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Five Things To Know About The Push To Rethink American High School
Posted on · News 88.7's Laura Isensee spoke with one advocate at the forefront of that push, former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise
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More Texas Inmates Are Getting High School Diplomas In Prison
Posted on · About 70 percent of inmates never graduated from high school, but now they’re getting a second chance behind bars
Education News
HISD High Schools Seeing Less Principal Turnover
Posted on · Some of HISD’s top high schools have had completely stable leadership in the last five years, like the nationally recognized Carnegie Vanguard.
Houston Matters
How to Help College-Bound Students Avoid the ‘Summer Melt’
Posted on · (Above: Students listen to an instructor at one of the campuses of Houston’s Lone Star College. Photo: Laura Isensee | Houston Public Media) In the summer between high school and college, some graduates enroll in a college or university but never show up in the fall. In higher education circles, the phenomenon is called “summer […]
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Virginia Shooting, Political Roundup, and the Effect of Music on Your Brain: Wednesday’s Show (June 14, 2017)
Posted on · (Above: Two people hug in an area blocked off by police crime scene tape in Alexandria, Va., after a shooting during a congressional baseball practice June 14, 2017. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) We’re learning more about this morning’s shooting in Alexandria, Va., during a Republican Congressional baseball practice. Members of Congress and their […]
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Furr High School is Trying to Rethink High School, Including How Teachers are Hired
Posted on · (Above: Furr High School is experimenting with a new model for education, including how they hire teachers. Here, administrators watched applicants on a live video feed as they tried to solve clues and “escape the room” during the interview process. Photo: Laura Isensee | Houston Public Media) News 88.7 education reporter Laura Isensee has been following […]