Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Medford, MA, United States (AHN) – Tufts University is ending a decades-long tradition of running naked through campus after the fall semester due to safety issues. In an op-ed column published Monday in the student newspaper, university president Lawrence Bacow said Tufts would no longer continue its Naked Quad [...]

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The First Couple on Thursday hosted a White House conference on school bullying noting that all Americans including “parents and students, teachers and communities” and people in general are responsible to stop children from being threatened or intimidated by their peers. Outlining “the [...]

Matthew Borghese – AHN News Contributor Miami, FL, United States (AHN) – President Barack Obama was the guest of honor Friday afternoon at one of Florida’s formerly failing high schools to deliver a speech pushing America to refund and reform education. Obama spoke alongside Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, but [...]

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor New Brunswick, NJ, United States (AHN) – Beginning next year Rutgers University will allow co-ed rooming in some “gender neutral” dormitories. Many link the new move to the suicide death of Tyler Clementi last year. Freshman Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge last September after his roommate [...]

Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Lubbock, TX, United States (AHN) – FBI agents arrested Wednesday a Saudi student in Texas for allegedly plotting terror attacks in the United States, including on the Dallas home of former president George W. Bush in the name of jihad. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, had been planning the [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Boise, ID, United States (AHN) – Hundreds of teachers rallied across Idaho on Presidents’ Day to protest a bill that would make drastic changes in education, including investments in technology and cuts to teaching positions. Teachers, parents and students gathered in Boise, Twin Falls and other locations to call [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor New York City, NY, United States (AHN) – New York Michael Bloomberg is under fire for proposing an annual budget requiring mass teacher layoffs and cuts to social services for infants and the elderly. Citing reduced funding from the state and the deficit, the mayor has proposed eliminating 6,166 [...]

Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – President Barack Obama on Monday interacted with several hundred noisy and excited eighth graders in a cafeteria at Parkville Middle School and Center of Technology outside of Baltimore, Maryland. With a sign on the wall reading, “Positive, Motivated and Safe,” the students burst [...]

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Although millions of American children and teens are on the popular social networking site Facebook and use it to communicate across the digital expanse. There are two children with the last name of Obama whose mother won’t allow them on the [...]

Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Five Nepali students were recently deported from the United Kingdom for abusing student visas to travel to the UK in order to work, the British Embassy in Kathmandu announced Thursday. The embassy said in a statement that all five students were returned to Nepal on [...]