Tag: Education
Florida science teacher arrested and charged after having sex with 8th grader
A married, female teacher from New Smyrna Beach Middle School in Florida was arrested, “on charges that she had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student and sent him nude […]
How different types of college internships affect job offers and salaries
Internships provide college students with valuable real-world work experience and can lead to increased job-offer rates and higher starting salaries, according to results of a recent survey conducted by the National […]
Former ‘Teacher of the Year’ facing life in prison for soliciting minor online
A former teacher from Westminster West Middle School in Carroll County, Maryland, has been in custody since his September 13 arrest and being charged with four counts of solicitation of […]
How college grads view their career readiness skills versus how employers view them
How prepared are new college graduates to make a successful transition into the workplace? Students entering the job market and their potential employers have very different perceptions about the “career […]
Foiled kidnapping: Good Samaritan saves 12-year-old girl from abduction
Claudia Hernandez Diaz, 34, was arrested in Santa Ana, California, on the morning of February 21 after a Good Samaritan successfully stopped Diaz from kidnapping a 12-year-old girl who was […]
Fla. teen arrested 2 days after Parkland shooting for threatening to shoot up Broward Co. schools
Only two days after the school shooting in Parkland where 17 died and 14 more suffered serious injuries, a teenager from Lauderhill, Florida, posted a message on social media, “threatening […]
Paid college internships on the rise
On February 15, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) released the results from their Class of 2017 Student Survey which show that 61 percent of graduating seniors took part […]
Heroic seven-year-old Florida girl saves family from house fire
Tracy Durant, a seven-year-old girl from Escambia County in Florida, is being hailed as a hero for saving her family from a house fire that broke out around 10:30 a.m. […]
Mean girls charged after delivering potentially deadly pineapple-tainted high-five
In a brutal tale that runs the gamut from mean girls’ school prank to school bullying to attempted murder, three western Pennsylvania teens attending Butler Intermediate High School in Butler, […]
U.S. flu outbreak claims the life of another child, 12-year-old Dylan Winnick
The latest fatality attributed to the 2018 flu season is 12-year-old Dylan Winnick from Coral Springs, Florida. Dylan died suddenly and unexpectedly on Tuesday. The normally healthy boy came down […]
