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Fourteen children were killed and dozens more injured following a stampede on Monday at the end of classes at a primary school in western Kenya, local authorities announced.

A student at Bellaire High School, Houston, Texas, was shot and rushed to a hospital and police are searching for the suspect.

Known as the “dirtiest man on television,” Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch fame joined Breitbart News Sunday this weekend on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 to discuss his new show Returning the Favor and combating stigmas around blue collar work.

A school in England has banned its female pupils from wearing skirts “to protect their modesty” when using glass-sided stairwells.

Following the largest measles outbreak in the U.S.since 1992, some 50,000 unvaccinated children are heading back to school in Wisconsin.

A majority of Americans believe that the Pledge of Allegiance should be recited in school classrooms, but the number who support it is down from the 77 percent who felt that way in 2008, with 61 percent in favor today, a Rasmussen Reports poll shows.

Nearly 80 percent of Venezuelan children have stopped attending school, according to a report published Thursday by the non-governmental organization (NGO) Fundaredes.

English schools will need to find almost 420,000 extra school places over the next decade, due in part to a baby boom among migrant mothers.

A Scottish 17-year-old school pupil was allegedly removed from class for failing to be “inclusive” by insisting that there are only two genders.

Try to imagine Son of Norman’s smug cable TV tour had the Bad Orange Man used a similar “school bombing” figure of speech.

A report that found that parents in Essex are removing their children from lessons on Islam and school trips to mosques.

The leaders of an “Islamic learning centre,” that taught only Muslim were saved by God, have become the first-ever in the UK convicted for operating an illegal and unregistered school in England.

An Atlanta charter school announced Tuesday that students would no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, and administrators are looking to replace it with an alternate “school pledge.”

Roughly 1,000 public school teachers in Washington, DC, are operating without a license, according to a report released Thursday.

Obama Sec. of Education and staunch gun control advocate Arne Duncan sends his kids to a school with armed security. On May 20 Breitbart News reported that Duncan suggested Americans ought to pull their kids from school until Congress passes more gun control. 

A New York state school district is considering a student proposal to do away with homework assignments after receiving a petition started by a few elementary school students.

Talk show host and MSBNC personality Hugh Hewitt took time Monday to discuss the Santa Fe High School shooting and floated the idea of banning trench coats in schools. 

A broadly applicable lesson from the Santa Fe High School shooting is that our nation’s school safety threat does not come from AR-15s or “high capacity” magazines but from gun-free zones.

The weapons policy of Santa Fe High School in Texas makes clear that no firearms, imitation firearms, BB guns, or ammunition is allowed on campus.

A man who has made it his quest to interview every living World War II veteran admitted Tuesday in an interview that he learned more from interviewing the veterans than anything he learned in school.

A concerned parent of a Florida high school teen shared his outrage over a question on his daughter’s homework assignment that described “revenge sex.”

A study by the Boston University School of Medicine suggests high crime in gun-controlled states may be due to lax laws in states with fewer gun controls.

To protect their students from mass-shooters, a Pennsylvania school district spent $1,800 to arm all 500 of its teachers with a tiny, 16-inch baseball bat.

Chicago Public Schools is in the process of building a $70 million public school campus on more than 38,000 unmarked graves.

24,000 e-mail threats sent to 400 schools in the U.K. seem to have been the result of friction between players on a Minecraft multiplayer game server.

President Donald Trump plans to meet with interested parties at the White House to discuss preventing school shootings in America.

The government is too politically correct to help schools attempting to ban Islamic hijabs, leaving teachers “alone, isolated and vulnerable”, the former head of Ofsted has said.

A £1500-a-year Muslim girls school has been given the inspectorates lowest raking, after a series of failings including not providing toilet paper for “cultural” reasons.

A Louisiana mother is going viral after she came up with a unique idea to punish her teenage son for getting suspended from school.

A father has refused to allow his 12-year-old daughter to do a school homework assignment – which is “in line with the National Curriculum” – asking her to write a letter to her family telling them she has converted to Islam.