/tags/middle-school Middle School en-US Copyright Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:11:30 GMT /news/2024-02-29/joseph-holt-black-teen-integration-efforts-north-carolina-schools A family in Raleigh was one of the first to fight to get their son Joseph Holt Jr. into an all-white school in the 1950s. As part of Black History Month, Wake County libraries highlighted the family as well as State Administrator Dudley Flood, who traveled across North Carolina assisting schools with integration. Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:11:30 GMT /news/2024-02-29/joseph-holt-black-teen-integration-efforts-north-carolina-schools Sharryse Piggott /education/2019-12-17/school-resource-officer-charged-after-slamming-student-to-the-ground Misdemeanor charges have been filed in North Carolina against a school resource officer who was seen on video body-slamming a middle school student, a… Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:09:10 GMT /education/2019-12-17/school-resource-officer-charged-after-slamming-student-to-the-ground Associated Press /race-demographics/2017-11-21/black-teen-girls-aggressive-arrest-at-school-sparks-questions-about-criminalization-of-youth When Connsuela Bautista got to school for her first morning class at Southeastern Randolph Middle School, she says she was immediately called to the… Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:21:36 GMT /race-demographics/2017-11-21/black-teen-girls-aggressive-arrest-at-school-sparks-questions-about-criminalization-of-youth Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2017-11-21/black-teen-girls-aggressive-arrest-at-school-sparks-questions-about-criminalization-of-youth When Connsuela Bautista got to school for her first morning class at Southeastern Randolph Middle School, she says she was immediately called to the… Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:21:36 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2017-11-21/black-teen-girls-aggressive-arrest-at-school-sparks-questions-about-criminalization-of-youth Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio /arts-culture/2017-04-27/all-star-comedy-team-creates-middle-grade-comic-novel When a comedian, a cartoonist and an author team up to write young adult fiction, it leads to a hilarious book about a sixth-grader with a secret.The book… Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:01:49 GMT /arts-culture/2017-04-27/all-star-comedy-team-creates-middle-grade-comic-novel Jennifer Brookland /show/the-state-of-things/2017-04-27/all-star-comedy-team-creates-middle-grade-comic-novel When a comedian, a cartoonist and an author team up to write young adult fiction, it leads to a hilarious book about a sixth-grader with a secret.The book… Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:01:49 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2017-04-27/all-star-comedy-team-creates-middle-grade-comic-novel Frank Stasio /education/2015-05-07/eighth-graders-in-raleigh-uncover-family-secrets-stories-in-classroom At the back of the library, Erik Swartz, a soft-spoken 14-year-old with shaggy hair, flips through papers. They’re rosters he found on Ancestry.com.“It’s… Thu, 07 May 2015 12:11:47 GMT /education/2015-05-07/eighth-graders-in-raleigh-uncover-family-secrets-stories-in-classroom Reema Khrais