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By AFP
Mexico -
A young girl supposedly trapped in the rubble of a Mexico City school toppled by a powerful quake this week never existed, officials said Thursday, denying accounts that had gripped all of Mexico and spurred international media attention.
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By AFP
Mexico -
Adriana Fargo nervously bites her lip as she waits for news on the fate of her seven-year-old daughter, feared buried in the earthquake-hit remains of a Mexico City elementary and middle school.
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By AFP
Kuala Lumpur -
Malaysian police have arrested seven suspects accused of intentionally starting a fire that killed 23 children and teachers at an Islamic school, an official said Saturday.
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By AFP
Kuala Lumpur -
Victims of a fire at an Islamic school in the Malaysian capital that killed 23 boys and teachers were buried Friday, as hundreds of mourners looked on in stunned silence.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
A student shot and killed another student and wounded three others Wednesday at a high school in the northwestern state of Washington before being disarmed, authorities said.
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By AFP
Kuala Lumpur -
Twenty-three people, mostly children, were killed Thursday by a blaze that tore through a Malaysian religious school, trapping them in a dormitory with metal grilles barring its windows.
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By AFP
Kuala Lumpur -
Twenty-five people, most of them students, were killed when a fire tore through a religious school in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, an official said.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
Schools with classes of 80 students, parents unable to afford even modest fees, thousands of unqualified teachers -- as students in Haiti return to school, the country's badly underfunded education system seems headed for a failing grade.
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Schools and colleges need to be safe environments where students can study and interact with each other safely. Such education institutions also need to be safe from break-ins or from dangerous events, like fires. There are several digital solutions.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
The Dutch government on was Wednesday ordered, by the country's highest court, to approve funding for a new Islamic school in Amsterdam which it had sought to ban.
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By AFP
Riyadh -
A "disgruntled" ex-employee of a Saudi private school shot dead two staff members and injured a third on Wednesday, the school's chairman said, but no children were present.
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By AFP
Riyadh -
A "disgruntled" ex-employee of a Saudi private school shot dead two staff members and injured a third on Wednesday, the school's chairman said, but no children were present.
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By AFP
Riyadh -
A "disgruntled" ex-employee of a Saudi private school shot dead two staff members and injured a third on Wednesday, the school's chairman said, but no children were present.
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Oslo -
Hay fever is an unpleasant allergy, varying in severity. The allergy affects many people as they go about their lives and this includes school children. The extent of the problem has been examined in a new study.
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By AFP
Stockholm -
A Muslim elementary school in Sweden, which separated boys and girls on a bus and during sports lessons, sparked controversy on Tuesday with the prime minister condemning it as "despicable".
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By AFP
Mosul -
Fifteen-year-old Mohammed enthusiastically helps the staff of a makeshift hospital set up in the bullet-scarred school in west Mosul where he himself studied before jihadists seized Iraq's second city.
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By AFP
Tegucigalpa -
The clatter of bullets piercing the school's roof sent pupils running for safety. Four of them and their teacher were wounded.
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By AFP
Marseille -
A second person was being held Friday over a shooting at a French school where a heavily armed teenager opened fire, slightly wounding three fellow pupils and a teacher, a judicial source said.
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By AFP
Grasse -
A disturbed teenager with guns and grenades opened fire in a school in southern France on Thursday, slightly wounding four people, officials said, rattling nerves in a country scarred by jihadist attacks.
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By AFP
Bobigny -
Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and right-wing Francois Fillon on Wednesday lashed out at the French government a day after a mob of school children in a Paris suburb assaulted police and smashed public property.
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Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, California made a wise investment a few years ago: its investment in Snap, the company behind Snapchat. The canny decision has raised millions for the school.
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By AFP
Paris -
Surges in US school and university shootings strongly overlap with periods of economic insecurity, said researchers Monday, offering a partial explanation for a phenomenon experts have been grappling to understand.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
A former high school student in California has been awarded $1.25 million for having been forced to urinate in a bucket after being denied a bathroom break.
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By AFP
Monterrey -
A 15-year-old boy shot at his classmates at a high school in northern Mexico on Wednesday, injuring at least five people including himself, officials said.
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By AFP
Sanaa -
An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a primary school in rebel-held northern Yemen on Tuesday killed five people including two children, medical and military sources said.
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New research provides a warning to school children who like to use the Internet in class. Surfing the Internet in class has been linked to poorer test scores.
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By AFP
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"One bullet plus one bullet equals? Two bullets!" This is how the children of the small Iraqi village of Jaraf were taught mathematics during two years of jihadist rule.
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By AFP
Montr -
A young man stabbed two female students at their high school in western Canada on Tuesday, killing one and wounding the other, who was hospitalized in stable condition, police said.
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By AFP
Donetsk -
Valeriya Turbay says she's forgetting how to speak Ukraine's official language as schoolchildren in the bastion of the pro-Russian rebels get fewer lessons after two years of war and an onslaught of Kremlin-inspired instruction.
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By AFP
Montr -
Some 60 schools and universities in eastern Canada were evacuated Wednesday over a series of bomb threats, including one received by police, that appeared to have been bogus.
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A student from Enderun Colleges chats with a representative from Happy Living Wines about wine
The abandoned Mae C. Jemison Academy in Detroit, Michigan
The abandoned Mae C. Jemison Academy in Detroit, Michigan
North America CeOSA President Joe Abu accepts a sewing machine donation commitment from alumnus Naomi Dole Mannah, of Texas. LW
Central Tech school in downtown Toronto, on Bathurst Street by orbz
The abandoned Mae C. Jemison Academy in Detroit, Michigan
A fetus doll that was given to 3rd, 4th, 5th graders as part of a religious teaching on anti-abortion and the pro-life movement at a public school in Virginia. WVEC screen shot
A closer look at the bronze statue of North Korea's former leader, who studied at this school
Graduation caps worn by students Jmaz Photo
Staff Sargeant Jordan Pritchard stands guard outside Gower Elementary School in Nashville, TN. Screen Capture
The abandoned Mae C. Jemison Academy in Detroit, Michigan
File photo: Enjoying a game.
SMP N I sukaresmi-cipanas-cianjur-west Java
My books for the fall semester and my schedule.
American Missionary, Min. Marilyn Mixon ( first from left) with CeOSA members, Elizabeth Faley from London, Hannah Brewah, Maryland, and Edwina Massaquoi, New Jersey. LW
And abandoned schoolhouse Atelier Teee
Ugandan students Kimberly Burns/USAID
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