What is being lost in the tumult is the basic purpose of education: teaching students to think for themselves.

Shauna Segler of Dunlap Middle School was named the Illinois Outstanding Speech Educator for 2025-26. Segler's junior high speech program at Dunlap Middle School included 154 students this year. This ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — At an end-of-year conference in June, senior Sara Velasquez Gomez, 18, told the assembled faculty how thankful she was to have graduated from Port Richmond High School after ...

A Harvard faculty group won a lawsuit in late September against the Trump administration over its use of immigration policy to threaten noncitizens for their speech. Now, the group is asking a federal ...

President Trump is visiting Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday morning where he will deliver remarks and take part in a wreath-laying ceremony to honor veterans. The president’s Veterans Day ...

President Donald Trump briefly turned his Veterans Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday into a MAGA rally during a wild detour. And without further ado, here’s said detour, which ...

The address mixed the traditional solemnity of the day with political arguments, as the president celebrated his efforts to remake the armed services into a “Department of War.” By Zolan Kanno-Youngs ...

MIDDLETOWN —A judge found that a former Middletown teacher was justified in complaining that school officials "scapegoated" her for speaking a slur during a lesson on racial epithets. Kirsten Byrd's ...

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH) — A court judge ruled on Wednesday that a Middletown teacher’s alleged use of a racial slur in class was potentially protected free speech in Connecticut. Kirsten Byrd filed a ...

The arrest by federal agents of a day care teacher inside a child care center in northwest Chicago has drawn strong condemnation from local leaders. Two ICE agents flanked the teacher Wednesday inside ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A day care worker was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in front of young children on the North Side Wednesday morning, witnesses said. Several witnesses ...