Amy Banks, a teacher at the Woodbury School in Salem, New Hampshire, is off the job after a video of her using the n-word began circulating on social media in September 2024 (Salem School District) ...

Amy Banks, who is listed as a 7th-grade math teacher at Woodbury School in the Salem School District reportedly used the “N-word” in a rant that has been making the rounds on social media. It's ...

A teacher in New Hampshire has been taken off her teaching duties while her school investigates why she used a racial slur in a bizarre video she posted to social media. Amy Banks, who is listed as a ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

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Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

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