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Wind-whipped wildfires reshaped wide swaths of Los Angeles, claiming at least 25 lives and destroying more than 12,000 structures. A dozen or more schools have been damaged or destroyed.
New Orleans educators on surviving the storm, teaching in its wake, and how they understand the seismic changes to the city’s school system.
What it's like to mark the saddest thing that's ever happened to you at "the happiest place on earth."
The attacks took place at the beginning of the school day at the beginning of the school year at the beginning of the millennium.
As thousands of L.A. students celebrated their high school graduation in recent days, school officials lamented the timing of the tumult and the Trump administration’s actions.
Here's the artifact that foretold the Kardashians’ celebrity.
Gabrielle Birkner and Marisa Renee Lee share their stories of loss and how it has impacted the way they lead their lives and their work today.
Grief has a language all its own, but even the best therapists can get tongue-tied around the tricky stuff.
Lie detector tests, private investigators, and the brave new world of hiring caregivers.
My dad was an early adopter of the internet, but he never lived to see what it would become.
Teens who grew up with active shooter drills share how gun violence affects their lives, schools, and neighborhoods.
A home birth in New York City, where neighbors live cheek-by-jowl, often in small walk-up apartments, poses unique challenges.
Within a day of showing interest in donating her pumped breast milk to other parents, Jennifer Ross had received emails from six interested New York families.
“I have dreamed of being a parent since I was just a small child,” said Rafi Daugherty, who recently gave birth to a daughter, Ettie Rose.
Alice had long believed that Simon — the little brother of her childhood best friend, Ita — had perished with his family at Auschwitz.
The proliferation of online forums for 'bad nanny' postings has also created a quandary for those who witness something questionable.
When Willie Moskowitz, a Yiddish-speaking immigrant from Russia, opened a tattoo parlor in the basement of his Bowery barbershop 60 years ago, a Jewish tattoo dynasty was born.
Rachel Beer's perpetually ink-stained hands produced some of the most incisive editorials of the late 19th century. It was also her scoop that would help clear the name of Alfred Dreyfus.
Nowhere to be found in this rags-to-bouclé-blazers biopic is a single reference to Chanel’s collaborationist activities during the German occupation of Paris.
"One thing he's representing quite well is the idea of teachers as leaders," a New York educator told Chalkbeat.
Religious institutions may be exempt from ADA guidelines, but Jay Ruderman is pushing for more inclusive synagogues, schools, and sacred spaces.
The January 8 shooting in Tucson killed six people, and the congresswoman was among 14 people injured.
Our grief back then was so raw. It was so analog.
Did you huff and puff through the mile, or astound your classmates with your pullup prowess? Your answers probably have a lot to do with how you feel about the Presidential Fitness Test, which President Trump plans to bring back.
The siege at Mumbai's Chabad house and the other Jewish victim of the terror attacks.
Heartache is inescapable-2020 proved it. In 2021 let's be honest about it.