EDUCATION

A London museum has agreed to return a collection of Benin Bronzes looted in the late 19th century from what is now Nigeria as cultural institutions throughout Britain come under pressure to repatriate artifacts acquired during the colonial era.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Jose L. Dotres encouraged teachers to “connect and inspire” in an address Friday ahead of students’ return to the classroom Aug 17.

Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Jose L. Dotres is giving a back-to-school address and holding a news conference Friday morning.

The event, held at Overtown’s Williams Park, has been going on for twenty years. It offered services like dental cleanings, haircuts, nails and backpacks filled with school supplies.

Residents at The Palace Gardens in Homestead, an assisted living and memory support community, are making art to make a difference.

Two months after the Uvalde school shooting, officials with the Miami-Dade school district hoped to learn from previous incidents Wednesday, holding an active shooter drill at Hialeah Senior High School.

“Where you went grad,” is a common question posed in Hawaii Pidgin to find out which high school someone graduated from.

Although the school board races are nonpartisan, Florida Republicans are turning these into battlegrounds during this election season.

An 85-year-old woman is celebrating her graduation from Florida International University.

It’s hard to think of a more bittersweet moment than when you send a kid off to kindergarten for the first time.

Across the U.S., COVID-19 relief money is helping to subsidize growing numbers of big-city schools with small numbers of students.

The Broward School District is in campaign mode this week, hoping to convince voters that a relatively small bump in property taxes is worth funding teachers and school security.

What a difference a week makes.

More than 1,000 years after his death in what is now Poland, a Danish king whose nickname is known to the world through wireless Bluetooth technology is at the center of an archaeological dispute.

After riding high on a promise to bring 50 charter schools to Tennessee, the relationship between the president of Michigan's Hillsdale College and Gov. Bill Lee has cooled over the past several months.

The sex education textbook discussion continues Thursday for the Miami-Dade School Board, a week after it voted to disallow two controversial textbooks in the classroom.

Tribes in South Dakota are working with a rural Massachusetts museum to return hundreds of items believed to have been taken from ancestors massacred at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890.

The proposed one mill increase has been dubbed the “Secure the Next Generation” renewal. It would replace the current half-mill referendum that’s soon to expire.

Election time is right around the corner, and while school board races usually don't receive a lot of attention, that may not be the case this year.

Florida Atlantic University will be housing some students off campus at nearby hotels, as school deals with lack of affordable housing.

Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz have now seen the AR-15 rifle he used to murder 17 people.

COVID-19 infections are again on the rise and filling families with dread as a new school year approaches.

Four Miami-Dade School Board members voted to keep a sex health education text in middle and high school classes were outvoted by five of their fellow board members.

In a five to four vote last week, Miami-Dade School Board members pulled a textbook about sex health education based on a petition by a relatively small number of objections and against the will of the majority of parents and the district’s own objective advisor.

Teachers’ unions in South Florida oppose the state’s new effort to have fewer requirements for U.S. military veterans and their spouses to work in public schools.

Nova Southeastern University welcomed high school students from all over the country for an innovative six-day summer camp in Davie.

In a week, by way of a job fair, Broward County Public Schools will be looking to fill 1,200 slots by the beginning of the school year.

Demolition crews are slowly chipping away at the four high-rise buildings that formed the skyline at the University of Miami and served as home for thousands of students for more than 50 years.

On Wednesday, the Miami-Dade School Board will decide whether two sex education text books will end up in the classroom.

Uvalde’s top school official has recommended the firing of the school district police chief who was central to the botched law enforcement response to the elementary school shooting nearly two months ago that killed two teachers and 19 students.

For the uninitiated, outfitting a college dorm room can be a dizzying experience.

Hong Kong’s annual book fair has kicked off with several publishers of political books prevented from taking part in the fair and others saying they had to be cautious about what they exhibited.

There has been heated debate among parents in Miami-Dade County over whether two sex education books should end up in the classroom.

A superstar student was honored at the Miami-Dade commission meeting on Tuesday morning.

New research shows students largely made academic gains this past year that paralleled their growth pre-pandemic and outpaced the previous school year.

A federal judge in Tennessee has issued an order barring two U.S. agencies from enforcing new federal guidance extending enforcement of discrimination in schools and workplaces based on gender identity.

At least $14 million has been raised through multiple sources for the victims and survivors of the May 24 mass shooting at a Texas elementary school.

The Miami-Dade Public Schools Police Department held an active shooter drill Friday following all the recent mass shootings across the country.

A seventh grade math teacher from northeast Florida has been chosen as the state’s Teacher of the Year.

A San Francisco Bay Area school district built subsidized housing for teachers and staff who could not afford market rent.

Georgia’s second-largest school district has approved a policy that lets some employees who aren’t certified police officers carry guns in schools.

The cost of basic school supplies are out of reach for some financially-strapped families, and it’s often a situation where teachers need to step in and help.

A teacher from South Florida is $15,000 richer as she waits to learn if she will be named Florida's teacher of the year.

The Episcopal Church is establishing a fact-finding commission that will research the history of the denomination’s role in operating boarding schools for Native American children.

Lottery retailers in nearly every state are clustered in lower-income neighborhoods, driving a wealth transfer from less affluent and educated Americans to the multinational corporations that are increasingly managing the day-to-day operations of the state-sanctioned gambling games.

U.S. News & World Report has unranked Columbia University from its 2022 edition of Best Colleges.

A new exhibit at Bishop Museum in Honolulu is drawing attention to a more than 500-year-old story about four high-ranking visitors from Tahiti who healed the sick.

Some excellent news was revealed on Thursday regarding South Florida's public school students.

Republican Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a massive expansion of Arizona’s private school voucher system.

A South Florida woman is proving you are never too old to achieve great things as she graduated from college at the age of 96.

“Education is a family affair”: It’s all about the children. Wiggins is seen hear reading to students at Collins Elementary School in Dania Beach , Florida. In his quest to lift up our young people, Rev. Wiggins has been engaged in educating students everyway he can. Paul R. Wiggins is seeking election for the Broward County School Board, District 1 Seat in 2022.

Long after Covid is gone, countries that closed schools longer and didn’t teach well online will do worse than others.

A former Chicago Public Schools administrator who founded the city’s charter school program will take the helm next month as the new superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago, church officials said Monday.

It’s not surprising then that the value of higher education is often reduced to dollars and cents or that people are questioning whether it’s worth the cost. Such commitments are a step in the right direction, but they are only one of many necessary steps on the road to racial justice. Much of the conversation on accountability for racial equity in higher education focuses on using quantitative data to close access and attainment gaps. BioKayla C. Elliott, Ph.D., is director for higher education policy at the Education Trust. Inside Higher Ed received financial support from the Gates Foundation for coverage of the foundation’s report on the value of higher education.

President Joe Biden has faced mounting criticism from fellow Democrats over his approach to the situation, and for not being more critical of Israel.

The 4-year-old boy, who has not been identified, was found dead in the middle of the block before 7 a.m. CT Saturday, according to police.

May 16—A female dog named Charis recently received a special treat marking her one-year anniversary at the Effingham County Humane Society. But Charis had something else to bark about. She was going to be picked up later by her newly adopted family. Charis was a little feisty at her party. There were quite a few new faces she had never seen before, according to ECHS Adoption Coordinator Angie ...

An Italian judge accused of taking bribes to free mobsters from prison is at the centre of an arms trafficking investigation after allegedly amassing a huge arsenal of illegal military-grade weapons. A new arrest warrant was issued for Giuseppe De Benedictis, after police discovered one of the largest private stashes of weapons ever confiscated in Italy. The Bari judge was already facing corruption charges after police bugged gangsters bragging about buying him for 30,000 euros. It comes as Italy reckons with the ongoing influence of organised crime in a mafia "super-trial," in which more than 350 alleged mobsters and their collaborators will face justice. It is the biggest mafia trial since the 1980s. The arsenal was hidden beneath a rural farmhouse among the olive and almond groves north of Bari. When police lifted the cellar's heavy iron lid, which had been soldered shut, they discovered nearly 200 different weapons, including Kalashnikovs, AR15s, UZI, Socimi and Beretta machine guns, pump action shotguns, CZ and other semi-automatic pistols, hand grenades, 100,000 rounds of ammunition, and even an anti-tank mine. Anti-mafia authorities are now investigating whether some military equipment may have been stolen from the Italian army to be sold on the black market. Prosecutors believe Mr De Benedictis and an Italian army officer may have been helping organised crime gangs move illegal arms through the port city of Bari, but the ex-judge maintains the collection was just a side hobby. A known, passionate collector of rare and antique guns, he reportedly firsty told authorities he had dumped any questionable weapons into the Adriatic Sea, but police continued to search for the cache, following leads from wiretapped conversations. According to Lecce prosecutors and the 40-page arrest warrant issued by Investigating Magistrate Guilia Proto, Mr De Benedictis had wiretapped conversations with an Italian Army official in Bari, Corporal Major Antonio Serafino, about how to procure arms and where to hide them. Corporal Major Serafino worked at the passport office of the Italian Armed Forces Mechanised Brigade “Pinerolo” in Bari. The brigade has infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments with access to howitzers and other arms. According to court documents, police bugged his car, and the hidden microphone picked up the sound of machine gun fire from Serafino’s balcony in a Bari suburb on New Year’s Eve, as he and Mr De Benedictis tested out some of their weapons. The same bugs picked up conversations between the judge and the army officer debating about whether and how to move the cache of weapons from the “well” in a rural location. The well turned out to be an underground storage cellar in an outbuilding of a farmhouse near the village of Andria. The arrest warrant issued this week charged the farmhouse owner, Corporal Major Serafino and Mr De Bendictis with illegal arms dealing. It referred to them as “authentic traffickers of weapons of war” which they deny. Prosecutors are in the process of verifying the provenance of the arms to determine if they may have been the property of the Italian Army, and if so, what other public officials might have been complicit in aiding their disappearance.

Longtime friendship with boy and his parents leads to idea of help funding college.

Education is the answer to all our problems, and that’s not a cliché, it’s a fact. I learned from Les Winston of the Endow America Network Foundation, who drew my attention to section 664 of the IRC that there is already a real solution to America’s financial problems.…. he has coined the phrase Social Secharity to explain it. ; We have long since passed that, and so arises the need for Social Secharity. Basically, instead of part of your paycheck going into an SSI account, and the government keeping those funds anyway, you would open up a Social Secharity trust.

Why should I hold on to my vaccination card? Should I let my child play sports? These are coronavirus questions we asked health and science experts.

The University of Florida's graduate programs got the highest cumulative marks of any Florida college in a national ranking by U.S. News & World Report.