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Fourteen-year-old student opens fire with hunting rifle at French school, wounding two

A supervisor at Joseph Lakanal College disarmed the 14-year-old before police arrived, Aubagne mayor Jean-Pierre Squillari told reporters.

Protestors that authorities have said nationwide number in the hundreds of thousands and demonstrating against what they call an overcrowded, ill-equipped and understaffed education system, gather around the Monument à la République in the center of the Place de la République on October 4, 2026.
At Schneider, a unique program was developed designed to assist children and adolescents dealing with avoidance and emotional difficulties, including school anxiety.

Schneider Children's Medical Center established a program for children facing school anxiety

Members of the media work next to a cordoned-off area as police and fire fighters work at the site of a deadly attack at a school by a 15-year-old former pupil, in Leszczydol-Nowiny, Wyszkow County, northeast of Warsaw, Poland, October 8, 2026.

Three injured in Poland's third youth stabbing attack in four days

Children look at the scene of a knife attack at a vocational school in the town of Ostroleka, some 120 km north of Warsaw on October 7, 2026. Officers have arrested a 19-year-old man after eight people were wounded in a knife attack at a high school in Poland.

Poland's second school knife attack in two days kills one, raises copycat fears


'Not safe for kids': Food allergy group petitions High Court to stop Kisch school-nurse pilot

The pilot, approved by the government ministries, is planned for eight elementary schools and will replace personal aides for students with life-threatening allergies with a single school nurse.

High Court Justice; illustrative.

Netanyahu visits school in Ramle hit by missile during Iran war as Israel classes start nationwide

The prime minister, alongside Education Minister Yoav Kisch, visited the school and talked with teaching and administrative staff, as well as the students on their first day of class.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Yoav Kisch with students from the Benzion Netanyahu School in Ramle.

As schools start in Israel, government pushes for teachers to move up north with NIS 60,000 grant

The grant is intended for teaching staff working in communities up to 9km from the northern border, and the may live up to 30km from the border.

Ofra Erlich teaching at Metula.

Israeli non-profits, companies expand education access in remote communities worldwide

The three nonprofit organizations and RoboGroup are members of the SID Israel community, the umbrella organization for Israel’s international development and humanitarian aid sector.

Kenyan students at a school aided by ConnectingMath, an Israeli nonprofit working to expand acces to math education in developing countries.

Nearly three million Israeli students begin school year with AI, financial education at center

Israel’s 2026-2027 school year opens Tuesday with new programs focusing on student resilience and belonging, financial literacy, and artificial intelligence.

Nearly three million Israeli students begin school on September 1, 2026, including some 180,000 first-graders.

KKL-JNF unveils archival photos showcasing Israeli classrooms in honor of new school year

The photographs show how children learned before modern technology, whiteboards, and even before they had classrooms.

Children studying outdoors in Kfar Hasidim in August, 1925.

Students encouraged to bring red balloons to first day of school for missing child Haymanot Kasau

"The first day of school is always exciting," Haymanot's father Tesfaye Kasau said. "It's a happy day. For us, it's another hard day."

Rescue teams searching for 9-year-old Haymanut Kasau, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, February 28, 2024.

Israelis rate education system 4 out of 10 as school year opens, new research warns

The current system was described as highly centralized and bureaucratic, arguing that schools and principals lack sufficient authority to respond to the needs of their students and communities.

Young students arrive to the classroom at the opening of the new school year in a school for ultra orthodox jewish boys, in Beit Shemesh, August 28, 2022.

Here is how to get your child back to regular sleep hours starting now

Dr. Shani Idan Reuven from Maccabi explains why it is advisable to start returning children to their regular school-year sleep schedules right now, and what to do with screens at night.

Move up the wake-up time and the bedtime by about 15 minutes every two or three days, until reaching hours that fit the kindergarten or school routine.

Two killed at school near Berlin, suspected attacker detained

An 18-year-old student and a 30-year-old man were killed in an attack at a school near Berlin, according to local reports. A suspect was detained.

Illustrative: German police guard the Reichstag building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, before the German presidential election in Berlin, February 12, 2017