Nathaniel Hillmer

Jan 22, 2025 | readlion.com | Reagan Reese |Jillian Schneider |Nathaniel Hillmer

At least two students were shot Wednesday at Antioch High School in Nashville, police say, and the student with the gun then shot themself, media reported. Metro Nashville Police said the shooter was a student and that the situation has been contained, WSMV TV reported. The shooting took place in the cafeteria. Parents are being asked not to come pick up their students, but to wait instead at a nearby hospital.

Nov 20, 2024 | readlion.com | Shanxi Omoniyi |Patrick Gibbons |Nathaniel Hillmer

An increasing number of professors at first-tier colleges are lamenting the lack of reading skills in their students from public schools, with some educators calling it a national “literacy crisis.” Even without hard numbers about the extent of this phenomenon, anecdotal evidence from The Atlantic suggests a “concerning rate of illiteracy (they) are seeing in their classrooms from first-year students,” noted Nia Tipton for YourTango.com.