Campbell High School’s Wesley Adkins is no ordinary math teacher, churning out formulas and problem sets. He sees the big picture — and he wants his students to do the same. Read more
Seniors at Kamehameha Schools Kapalama swept the top awards at a national science conference for Indigenous students, with research projects ranging from prostate cancer to harnessing energy in Hawaiian fishponds. Read more
Lori Kwee, who encourages her fourth graders at Ala Wai Elementary School to look for real-life problems and try to solve them, has been named the 2021 Hawai State Teacher of the Year. Read more
Academics, journalists and First Amendment lawyers are rallying behind New York University researchers in a showdown with Facebook over its demand that they halt the collection of data showing who is being micro-targeted by political ads on the world’s dominant social media platform. Read more
An online portal — Hawaii Career Pathways — that launched this week will help students as well as adults gear up for jobs that are going to be in demand and can spur economic recovery in the state. Read more
Nearly half of Oahu voters believe schools in Hawaii should be giving students a mix of on-campus and online instruction, rather than full distance learning, according to the Hawaii Poll. Read more
Only 10% of public school students in Hawaii are receiving in-person instruction daily, with younger students getting the most time on campus, according to data released Tuesday. Read more
Based on the most recent data, Oahu and Hawaii island could be in “blended learning” — a combination of in-person and online instruction. Read more
Hawaii’s public schools will stop using the Acellus online curriculum by the end of the academic year, following a unanimous vote by the Board of Education and an in-depth review that panned the program. Read more
Hawaii’s public schools reported 10 confirmed cases of coronavirus among staff and students during the week ending Friday, but six had not been on campus for at least two weeks. Read more
The number of transfers to UH Manoa rose by 16.5% and to UH West Oahu by 18.6%, both from the mainland and locally. Read more
The event, which runs from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., is free but registration is required. Read more
More than 60% of Hawaii’s public schools chose Acellus and paid $25 to $100 per students for yearlong licenses to use the program. Read more
The Department of Education program is paid for through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer School Service Program, which recently extended funding through the end of the semester. Read more
Student loan payments typically begin six months after graduation. Read more
Some of Hawaii’s most popular musical artists have appeared before an unlikely audience — a small elementary school on Oahu’s windward coast. Read more
Some teachers and parents in Hawaii have decried the content on the video-based instructional platform as racist, sexist, inaccurate, outdated and lacking rigor. Read more
Egypt today began the trial of a former student of an elite university on charges of sexual assault of three minors, in a case that has launched a new wave of the #MeToo movement in the Arab world’s most populous country. Read more
Public schools will start the second quarter Monday still largely in distance learning mode, with plans to gradually bring students back depending on coronavirus health metrics and campus capacity. Read more
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett graduated in 1994 with honors from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. But more than 1,500 alumni of the small liberal arts school have made it known they are not proud of their ties to the conservative lawyer and judge. Read more
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