California Schoolchildren Threatened with Arrest for Skipping Online Lessons

One East Bay, California, parent said he received a letter from his son's school threatening to arrest the boy for skipping class on the video conferencing app Zoom. According to the father, such a punishment is too much. Details shared...

9 bad habits we inherited from high school English teachers

School English is associated with paper dictionaries, dictations and memorizing grammar rules. Some of the knowledge from those lessons is no longer relevant, and the approach to language learning has radically changed. English teacher Dilyara Kashapova has collected bad habits associated with English that ...

Israelis find out how knowledge of school subjects affects salaries in the future

According to a study conducted by the Israeli Shoresh Institute for Socio-Economic Research, of all the subjects studied by Israeli schoolchildren, only two subjects have a real impact on future salaries - mathematics and, to a lesser extent, English, writes Newsru.co.il. The study was carried out by Professors Dan Ben-David...

How schoolchildren in different US states will learn from the fall

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the United States. After the quarantine, the states will have to decide how and when schools will open in September. They will have to weigh the risks and benefits of returning their children to face-to-face education instead of distance learning. Some states plan to resume full-time education, others want to introduce ...

Earned $ 1000: Black High School Student Selling Abusive Names to Blacks to Whites

In the United States, an 11-year-old black teenager began selling his white school acquaintances the right to use the n-word (offensive word for blacks). Writes about this Esquire. The story of an overly enterprising teenager was told to reporters by his adoptive mother. The woman said that 11 years ago together ...

March 2020 was the first in 18 years when US schools were not shot

Since early March, all schools in the country have been closed due to preventive measures in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Therefore, students master homeschooling and online lessons. And this format could last until the end of the school year, writes CBS News. For most, this period became ...

Laptops, lunches and online lessons: how to organize home-based learning in the USA

We learned on Thursday evening that our school was closing last Friday, March 13, and tentatively until April 10. According to the plan, it was supposed to close on Monday and only for one day - so that teachers could come and...

Why aren’t children wearing American school buses?

The author of the That American Life channel on Yandex.Zen told why in the US, children do not wear seat belts on school buses. Further - from the first person. When sending children to an American school, one can notice one peculiarity: unlike traveling by car, in most school ...

Oregon elementary school in panic: one of the employees became infected with coronavirus

Oregon is closing a primary school after a school worker is believed to be diagnosed with the state's first case of coronavirus infection. The Lake Oswego School District has confirmed the closure on its website, Fox News writes. The district reported that primary school from 430 ...

American schoolgirl stuck in quarantine in China, but found a way to continue her studies in the USA

At the Springfield, Virginia school, at first glance, there is a completely ordinary lesson, but there is still something special. This is a tripod with a tablet attached to it, on the screen of which you can see a girl sitting at a desk. The tablet rotates to follow the teacher's movements. ...

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