Tag: students
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Schools create safe spaces amid gun violence, but students want more security : NPR
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The busy halls of North Community High School in Minneapolis in between classes. Caroline Yang for NPR hide caption toggle caption Caroline Yang for NPR The busy halls of North Community High School in Minneapolis in between classes. Caroline Yang for NPR The students at North Community High School in Minneapolis have seen a lot.…
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Two L.A. students go to Oscars thanks to Alicia Keys’ hairstylist, donated dresses
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When girls in their junior year of high school scour the mall for the perfect dress in the spring, it’s time for prom. But not for 17-year-old Ismerai Calcaneo. She’s shopping for the Oscars. It’s a quest for a dress that this Roosevelt High student could have never imagined. And it’s taken her teacher’s Instagram…
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DOE u-turns on axed school lunch items but not all students to benefit, sources say
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City officials are touting the reversal of drastic cafeteria menus changes after kids were caught trashing the meals — but not at all schools will be getting back their beloved french toast sticks, bean burritos and chicken dumplings, The Post has learned. The much ballyhooed change will actually only affect schools with “food court menus”…
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Forty-three Mexican Students Went Missing. What Really Happened to Them?
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Investigators pulled this account together slowly in the course of years, cross-checking hundreds of interviews with survivors, eyewitnesses, and participants in the events. But the answer to a key question sought by the students’ parents—what happened to their children after they were last seen that night long ago?—remains elusive: of those seven or eight missing…
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$1B donation makes New York medical school tuition free and transforms students’ lives
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First year student Samuel Woo had been considering a career in cardiology so he would be able to pay off his medical school debt until the announcement this week of a generous donation that will remove tuition fees at his New York City school. Now, without the fear of crippling student debt, the 23-year-old from…
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Rome trial begins for Egypt security officials accused of student’s murder
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Four high-level Egyptian security officials have gone on trial in absentia the 2016 abduction, torture and slaying of an Italian doctoral student in Cairo. Tuesday’s opening hearing marks the second time the four Egyptians have been prosecuted in an Italian court in absentia. In 2021, a Rome judge halted the trial on the day it…
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Students on hunger strike call for Brown University to divest from pro-Israel companies | US universities
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A group of 19 students at Brown University have gone on hunger strike, calling for the school to divest from “companies which profit from human rights abuses in Palestine”. The move follows months of protests and sit-ins at universities around the country, which have seen students arrested as they protest against Israel’s ongoing military campaign…
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UWM architecture students envision a lakefront sports hall of fame. See their concepts.
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee architecture students designed a new Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame building to activate a green space at the downtown lakefront. Source link
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Custom made by Tulane students, mobility chairs help special needs toddlers get moving
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NEW ORLEANS — At 19 months old, Elijah Jack, born with no femur bone in one leg and a short femur in the other, is unable to walk on his own like most toddlers his age. Another 19-month-old, Freya Baudoin, born prematurely at 28 weeks and delayed in her mobility, has finally taken her first…
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Ten architecture projects by students at UCLA
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Dezeen School Shows: a furniture factory that promotes the principles of reuse, recycling and sustainability is included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at UCLA. Also included is a film that immerses audiences in a post-apocalyptic world and a mixed-use block that promotes a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. Institution: UCLASchool: UCLA Architecture and Urban…