Teacher who shielded kids with her body in Oklahoma tornado: ‘Just doing our job’
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Sixth-grade teacher Rhonda Crosswhite never feared for her own life as she draped her body across six students inside a Plaza Towers Elementary School bathroom stall.
Instead, she focused on providing what little comfort she could to the screaming and sobbing children beneath her.
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Okla. school survivor: Teacher threw herself over us and ‘saved our lives’
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A fourth-grader at a school that took a direct hit from Monday’s deadly tornado in Moore, Okla., described the heroic actions of a teacher who saved his life and others by covering several students with her body to shield them from the storm.
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Innocence lost: Class of 2013 comes of age in a weak economy
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The members of the class of 2013 entered college under the gloom the Great Recession, came of age in an era of economic uncertainty and are graduating into a job market still scarred by high unemployment.
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Principal fires security guards to hire art teachers — and transforms elementary school
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ROXBURY, Mass. — The community of Roxbury had high hopes for its newest public school back in 2003. There were art studios, a dance room, even a theater equipped with cushy seating.
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Welcome to Tofu Elementary! NYC school goes all-vegetarian
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Braised black beans and plantains. Tofu roasted in Asian sesame sauce. Falafel and cucumber salad. These aren’t menu items from a high-end restaurant; they’re lunchtime grub for students at a Flushing, Queens, public school’s all-vegetarian cafeteria, the first in New York City to nix meat and believed to be one of the first public school in the nation to serve only vegetarian fare.
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Americans head north for affordable college degrees
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MONTREAL, Canada — Eric Andreasen is a college student from Portland, Maine, who has his sights set on a career working for a lawmaker in the nation’s capital.
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Minnesota school district gets bulletproof whiteboards
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COLD SPRING, Minn. — A Minnesota school district where two students were killed in a 2003 shooting unveiled a new device Tuesday aimed at adding a last-ditch layer of safety for teachers and students: bulletproof whiteboards.
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In some US schools, different races held to different standards
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Facing pressure from No Child Left Behind, states attempt to close the achievement gap between races.
See more from NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and explore our interactive map to see which states’ education goals vary by race.
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Obama recognizes Sandy Hook educators with second-highest civilian honor
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WASHINGTON — Family members of the six adults killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting were at the White House Friday as President Barack Obama bestowed the nation’s second-highest civilian honor on their fallen relatives.
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Three Pennsylvania classmates get perfect SAT scores
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Three students from Montgomery County, Pa., accomplished something extremely rare — they all scored a perfect score of 2400 on their SAT.
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Expired milk and a piece of bread: School lunch scandal sparks outrage in China
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BEIJING — Five local Chinese education officials were sacked this week amid rampant speculation that they were stealing from a national lunch program, prompting a nationwide online debate over how this nation of 1.3 billion is feeding its more than 194 million K-12 students.
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Student loan debt hits record high, study shows
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The average college student who graduated in 2011 had $26,600 in student loans, according to a new report, which estimates two-thirds of last year’s college graduates had student loan debt.
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ADHD or not, kids prescribed Adderall to boost school grades
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When Dr. Michael Anderson hears about his low-income patients struggling in elementary school, he usually gives them a taste of some powerful medicine: Adderall.
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Michigan town rallies around teen pranked for homecoming
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A tiny farming town in Michigan is rallying around a 16-year-old girl who was voted to be on a high school homecoming court as part of a prank. Local businesses are picking up the tab for her special night, while a neighbor started a Facebook support page.
“It’s been overwhelming,” Bernice Kropp told NBC News on Monday. Her daughter, Whitney Kropp, is at the center of the controversy at West Branch’s Ogemaw Heights High School, north of Saginaw.
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Chicago students head back to school after strike
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Chicago students headed back to school on Wednesday after the Chicago Teachers Union suspended their strike, according to the Associated Press. The union reached a tentative deal with the city, which Mayor Rahm Emanuel called “an honest compromise,” according to NBC Chicago.
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