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Florida Coach, Wife Electrocuted While Installing Scoreboard

Officials say a high school baseball coach and his wife were electrocuted while installing a new scoreboard at a Florida baseball field to replace one that had been destroyed by Hurricane Michael.




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Florida Governor Signs Divisive Bill Allowing for Armed Teachers

Florida's governor signed a bill that will allow schools to arm classroom teachers, part of a longer list of school safety changes made after a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last year.




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Florida governor orders schools closed rest of academic year




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Caravan of decorated cars bring joy to high school seniors




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There's Pushback to Social-Emotional Learning. Here's What Happened in One State

When Idaho education leaders pitched social-emotional learning training for teachers, some state lawmakers compared the plan to dystopian behavior control. Some walked out of the meeting.




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This State Just Became the First to Restrict Transgender Student Athletes' Participation

Idaho became the first state in the country to prohibit transgender girls from participating in girls' school sports after Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, signed the "Fairness in Women's Sports Act" into law Tuesday.




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Idaho's top school official sues lawmakers, education board




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An Idaho School Reopens. Are Its Precautions the 'New Normal'?

A private pre-K-12 school in Idaho welcomes students back after its coronavirus shutdown, but with shortened days, a closed cafeteria, no bus service, and other signs that things aren't back to normal.




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New Hampshire Gambles on Big Payout for Full-Day Kindergarten

The Granite State has legalized Keno gambling and plans to tax the machines to partially fund full-day kindergarten for the state's 5-year-olds.




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Betsy DeVos Gave a State Charter School Grants. Lawmakers Have Said No Thanks, Twice

It's pretty obvious by now that many Democrats are growing increasingly uncomfortable supporting charter schools. But New Hampshire lawmakers have taken the unusual step of rejecting federal charter school grant money.




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E.M. Curr's Australian Comparative Vocabulary

At 9.45 metres long, this gargantuan accordion-fold document is  the longest known manuscript in the Library*.  Curr




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What Teachers Can Learn from Iowa's Efforts to Engage Teen Caucusgoers

A new generation of Iowans are preparing to caucus for the first time. Here's how their teachers are preparing them, and what it says about civics education in 2020.




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Largest Iowa school district could extend distance learning




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Iowa governor: K-12 schools won't resume classes this year




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A District Knew It Was Failing Some Students. How It's Using Parents to Help

The Minneapolis district—with large achievement gaps between white and black students—is enlisting parents from communities of color to help it gather broader and better feedback on how to improve.




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Supreme Court Strikes Minnesota Law Barring Political Apparel at Polling Places

In a case implicating the use of schools as voting locations as well as free speech in education, the justices said Minnesota went too far.




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Minnesota Education Leaders Grapple with Findings from Early-Ed. Audit

An audit of the early-childhood education offerings in Minnesota finds complexity and fragmentation as well as a lack of data about program effectiveness.




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How Weather Forced a Minn. District to Establish E-Learning Options On the Fly

The director of teaching and learning for a Minnesota district talks about putting e-learning days into action under difficult circumstances.




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Walz ends school year, but lets some businesses reopen




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Minnesota bans large-scale high school graduation ceremonies




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W.Va. Partnership Supports Grandparents in Raising School-Age Children

Nearly 45 percent of children in rural McDowell County, West Virginia do not live with their parents and many are being raised by grandparents.




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After Four Years, Progress Reported by 'Reconnecting McDowell'

Academic and health offerings have increased in McDowell County, W.Va., due to a private-public partnership.




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West Virginia Teachers Are Going on Strike Again

Teachers across the state will walk out of their classrooms on Tuesday to protest an education bill going through the state legislature.




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Despite Fierce Teacher Opposition, West Virginia House Votes to Allow Charter Schools

The West Virginia House of Delegates passed its version of a sweeping education omnibus bill, which would allow the state's first charter schools.




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Schools closed for rest of academic year amid virus threat




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DeVos Taps Haley Barbour, Ex-Governor and RNC Boss, to Oversee 'Nation's Report Card'

Barbour, who served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997, will serve as chairman of the National Assessment Governing Board for a term that lasts until Sept. 30, 2023.




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Supreme Court to Weigh 'Incorrigible' Bar for Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences

The justices agreed to decide whether the Eighth Amendment requires a trial court to find that a juvenile is permanently incorrigible before imposing a sentence of life without parole.




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Mississippi Ranks 47th on Quality Counts Annual Report Card

The state, which earned a D-plus, scored low on the Chance for Success Index, which tracks a host of socioeconomic factors that can affect the educational environment.




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Social and Emotional Learning in Vermont

In the Green Mountain State, education leaders discuss their focus on the whole child.




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Where They Are: The Nation's Small But Growing Population of Black English-Learners

In five northern U.S. states, black students comprise more than a fifth of ELL enrollment.




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New Breed of After-School Programs Embrace English-Learners

A handful of districts and other groups are reshaping the after-school space to provide a wide range of social and linguistic supports for newcomer students.




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Schools Lean on Staff Who Speak Students' Language to Keep English-Learners Connected

The rocky shift to remote learning has exacerbated inequities for the nation's 5 million English-learners. An army of multilingual liaisons work round the clock to plug widening gaps.




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Earthquake Scuttles Classes in Alaska, As California Students Return to School

While thousands of students in wildfire-ravaged Northern California resumed classes last week, thousands of others in Alaska stayed home after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Nov. 30.




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Alaska Governor, a Career Educator, Proposes a Slash and Burn K-12 Budget

Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who spent his career as a teacher, principal and superintendent of a rural Alaska district wants to now cut more than a third of the state's K-12 spending.




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Alaska Gov., a Career Educator, Proposes Slash and Burn K-12 Budget

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican who was elected partly because of his experience as a public school educator, proposed a budget this year that would slash more than a quarter of the state's $1.6 billion education budget.




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The School District Where the Shutdown Hit Nearly Everyone

In Kodiak, Alaska, a school district with deep ties to the U.S. Coast Guard has been walloped by the government shutdown with hundreds of families going without paychecks. And news of a deal to temporarily reopen the government was doing little to allay the community's anxieties.




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Mat-Su school board bans 5 books from high school curriculum




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Endell Street Hospital 1915-1920: commemorative calendar. Process print, 1920.

[London?] : [Endell Street Military Hospital?], [1920] (Harlesden, London N.W. 10 : Leveridge & Co.)




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François-Charles-Joseph Bonaparte, King of Rome, as a boy. Engraving by W. Bromley, 1830, after Sir T. Lawrence.




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François-Charles-Joseph Bonaparte, King of Rome, as a boy. Engraving by W. Bromley, 1830, after Sir T. Lawrence.

London (3 Haymarket) : Published ... by W.B. Tiffin, June 21st 1830.




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Belisarius begging for alms. Engraving by G. Scotin after J. Goupy after L. Borzone.

[London?], [between 1730 and 1753]




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Cupid learning to read the letters of the alphabet. Engraving after A. Allegri, il Corrreggio.

[London] (at the Historic Gallery, 87 Pall Mall) : Pub.d by Mr Stone.




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Death, wearing a crown and accompanied by monsters, rides a white horse that tramples on men, women and children. Etching by J. Haynes, 1784, after J.H. Mortimer.

London (Norfolk Street, Strand) : J. Mortimer, Jany. 1st 1784.




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King Henri IV after his assassination is taken up to Olympus and received by the gods; France awards the regency to his widow Marie de' Medici. Engraving by G. Duchange, 1708, after J.M. Nattier after Sir P.P. Rubens.

Se vend à Paris (rue St. Jacques au dessus de la rue des Mathurins) : chez le S.r Duchange graveur ordinaire du Roy. Avec privilege du Roy, [1708?]




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A council of the Olympian gods provides for good government of France under the regency of Marie de' Medici. Engraving by B. Picart, 1707, after J.M. Nattier after Sir P.P. Rubens.

A Paris (rue St. Jacques audessus de la rue des Mathurins) : chez G. Duchange graveur du Roy. Avec privilege du Roy, [1708?]




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Three Irish heroes: Oscar, Fingal, and Cúchulainn. Lithograph by H. Aubry-Lecomte, 1820 (?), after A.L. Girodet-Trioson, 1801.

A Paris (rue des deux portes, St André des arts no. 7) : chez Noel et c.ie, [1820?] ([Paris?] : Litho. de F. Noel)




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Constantia is reunited with her father, the emperor Tiberius II Constantinus, and given as bride to Ælla, king of Northumbria. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1799, after J.F. Rigaud.

London (Poets Gallery Fleet Street) : Publish'd ... by Thos. Macklin, Novr. 30. 1799.




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Cybele, accompanied by Bacchus and Ceres, is carried on a chariot drawn by lions, surrounded by ancillary deities and followers; representing the element earth. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1721, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.

Paris (rue de la Vannerie a l'image St. Michel) : Dupuis graveur du Roy, [1721]




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Allegorical tomb of William Cadogan, Earl Cadogan. Line engraving by N. Dorigny, 1736, after C. Vanloo.

[Paris?] : Mac. S. [le tout dirigé & mis au jour, par les soins de Eugene Mac-Swiny], [1741?]




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Weaving, ceramic manufactures, clothing and coiffure displayed through personifications as industrial arts applied to peace. Process print after C. Brown after F. Leighton.