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NY state officials want schools to say how they are teaching the Holocaust

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with teens across the world to report on issues that impact their lives.

(JTA) — Sasha Bandler and Josh Davis feel lucky to have learned about the Holocaust directly from survivors, but this wasn’t part of any formal education. The high school seniors found the Holocaust lessons at their Long Island schools inadequate.

“We’ve learned very little about the Holocaust aside from a general outline of what happened,” said Davis, a student at Great Neck South High School. “In AP World History, my class spent

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Students hoping to become WVa teachers can seek scholarships

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — High school seniors who are interested in becoming teachers in West Virginia have until the end of the month to apply for a state-sponsored college scholarship.

The Underwood-Smith Teaching Scholars Program provides up to $10,000 per year, for a total of $40,000, for 25 new students each year from a pool of applicants nationally, the Higher Education Policy Commission said in a news release.

“Across our state and the country, we’re looking for the best and brightest high school students who are ready to inspire future students — just like their own teachers have inspired them,”

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Is It Time to Cut Back on Alcohol?

December 12, 2022 · 7:00 AM

“Is the room spinning, or is it just me?”

A few months ago I ran across a thoughtful article by Morris van de Camp entitled Love Drinking Less. It’s well worth a read if your alcohol consumption is out of control or heading that way.

Alcohol is a two-edged sword. On the one hand it makes life fun and turns strangers into intimate friends in the course of an evening; on the other, it makes a person dysfunctional. Very dysfunctional. Productive time is lost, relationships are damaged, and health is harmed.

I cannot say

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Team teaching is breaking the mold of high school education

MESA, Ariz. — There are plenty of negative trends showing up in education across the country. Student test scores are down and teachers are leaving the profession in droves. But, there is positive change happening too. There is a new kind of classroom that’s hoping to make the school more engaging for teachers and students.

“I can only describe it as magical,” said Jenny Denton, who teaches world history at Mountain View High School in Mesa, Arizona. “We work together really well.”

Denton is one of three educators overseeing a class of 100 students. It’s an initiative introduced this year

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Jupiter High School gets extra mental health support after student emergency

Many parents and students continue to have questions about a student medical emergency that prompted a lockdown and tense day at Jupiter Community High School on Thursday.

While we don’t know the exact circumstances surrounding the medical incident because of privacy laws, we do know it had a big impact on the school community.

Every Palm Beach County public school has a counselor and behavioral health specialist on campus. But something like Thursday’s emergency brings out more support with therapy dogs, additional counselors, and really a whole team.

But what does that look like to those going through it?

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Japanese faces, American hearts

Yoshio Nakamura remembers Dec. 7, 1941. The panic of a nation. The cries for revenge and anger from his neighbors. The sentiments boiled within him, too.

But “Yosh,” as he likes to be called, also recalls the rage directed at people who looked like him in the wake of that day of infamy. The suspicions. The eventual order to leave his home.

That dreaded notice arrived in May 1942. Yosh was a junior in high school in El Monte, California. Just months earlier, inside that blissfully isolated existence unique to teenage academia, his classmates had elected him president of the

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Pesky pests in greenhouses lead to hands-on learning experiences for Smithville students

Smithville High School Agriculture Instructor Stephen Heppe explains how students in his class dealt with a pest problem after the agriculture program opened its greenhouse and received its first shipment of poinsettias. Helping him and the students was Frank Becker (second to left), who at the time was the integrated pest management coordinator for OSU Extension, Wayne County office. Becker is now the office's agriculture and natural resources educator and is sharing his expertise with the school's agriculture program as a guest lecturer. Students pictured are Audrey Sidle and Ben Rhodes.

Smithville High School Agriculture Instructor Stephen Heppe explains how students in his class dealt with a pest problem after the agriculture program opened its greenhouse and received its first shipment of poinsettias. Helping him and the students was Frank Becker (second to left), who at the time was the integrated pest management coordinator for OSU Extension, Wayne County office. Becker is now the office’s agriculture and natural resources educator and is sharing his expertise with the school’s agriculture program as a guest lecturer. Students pictured are Audrey Sidle and Ben Rhodes.

When Smithville High School’s agriculture education program built a

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Teach it, live it: High School science teacher honored for environmental education | Local News Stories

A Lake Havasu High School AP science teacher was recognized for the passion she brings to her job.

Ali Porosky, LHHS’s ecology, integrated science and environmental science teacher, was named the 2022 outstanding environmental educator for grades K-12 by the Arizona Association for Environmental Education. Since starting her teaching career 10 years ago, the AAEE says Porosky has been “a champion for environmental education, sustainability, and conservation.”

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