Facing different but equally harrowing crises, parents and educators in the United States and northeast Nigeria are debating similarly drastic measures to improve school safety as a painful public reckoning plays out in both countries.
While students across the nation walked out of school to protest gun violence, the 19-year-old accused of killing 17 people and wounding more in the Florida school shooting sat in court silently, his head bowed.
It was the ninth time in the space of 10 days that Sherry Denness had tried to kill herself. "It felt like checkmate - there were no open doors or other ways for my life to turn, I just wanted to die," she says. Sherry's story is about mental illness and lack of support in…
Measures are being introduced to tighten regulation of classroom teachers who help set public examinations in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the cheating scandal that hit two prestigious private schools last summer.
FN:s skolor i Gaza kan tvingas stänga efter sommaren om FN-organet UNRWA inte kompenseras för det stora underskott som uppstod när USA nyligen drog in sitt stöd på 300 miljoner dollar.