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When I think of the legendary concerts in music history — the Beatles at Shea Stadium in New York City; Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and other rock giants at Woodstock; me as the guest triangle player for the Stamford Symphony Orchestra — the one I remember as the greatest was…

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Man charged with following 12-year-old girl near North Side grade school

The girl, 12, was walking west in the 2600 block of Bryn Mawr Avenue to school when a man in a white four-door Honda pulled up and signaled her over with his hand, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

These Chicago-area kids won the Sun-Times’ latest student art contest

We asked students for their artistic takes on the theme ‘Spring ahead’ — and had artists Molly Z., Cheri Charlton, Rahmaan Statik and POSE review their work.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Do you want to build a robot?

Teams of students were on the clock to build robots out of a pile of Legos.

Chicago Sun-Times

Brickbat: School Discipline

Tara Coleman Hunter, assistant principal of an elementary school in San Antonio, Texas, has been charged with felony bodily injury to a child. Police said a 5-year-old boy had been sent to the assistant principal's office because he had been unruly. The boy struck Hunter, and she shoved him into…

Reason

A New Orleans community center rises from its ugly history as a segregated school

They were known as “the McDonogh Three,” and unlike many stories of the tumultuous civil rights era, this one has a hopeful ending.

The Conversation

Disruptive kindergartners are likely to be bullied later in elementary school

Kindergartners who act out, disrupt classrooms, get angry and argue with their teachers are especially likely to be bullied once they reach third, fourth and fifth grade, our research group has found.

The Conversation

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Florida approves more math books but provides no explanation

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A series of elementary school math textbooks previously rejected by Florida won state approval this week and can now be purchased by school districts that want books to match state standards.

Tribune News Service

Florida is down to one approved publisher for K-5 math classes. Here’s why that worries some educators

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida’s school districts may be down to just a single option for buying new elementary school math textbooks — and it’s a choice that concerns some educators.

Orlando Sentinel

Brickbat: Bend Over

Lawrence County, Alabama, schools Superintendent Jon Bret Smith has placed Hazlewood Elementary School Principal Datie Priest on paid leave and issued her a written reprimand claiming she, among other things, violated the school system's discipline policy. Smith said Priest paddled one student twice on one day, once for 10 licks…

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