Around 50 years ago, an Anne Arundel County teacher told her students they would receive an "A" on their assignment if she received the letter back in the mail. Skip to content NOWCAST WBAL-TV 11 ...

"Write a letter to your family back in Africa or in another American state describing your life." A copy of the assignment, given by a teacher at Purvis Middle School, was shared on social ...

The assignment, which was posted in full by KMOV, also asked students to set prices for 10 other items: grain, apples or tomatoes, codfish, herring, oil, milk, cow, wool, firewood, lumber and tar.

Make sure that you use proper grammatical skills when writing your letter,” read the assignment given out by social studies teacher Corey Sanders to his students at Hampton Middle School.

A Missouri teacher was placed on administrative leave Monday after they asked students to put a price on slaves as part of a "culturally sensitive" assignment, school officials said.

A teacher who told Freeport middle school students in social studies classes to "make it funny and don't bore me" after asking them to write captions for pictures of African American slaves has ...

"It was just very uncomfortable because I was the only person of color in my class ... the letter said. "The assignment will no longer be used in any class and the teacher has been suspended.

The teachers, counselors, paras, aids, specialists and all who work with students are all superheroes, in my opinion ... who may have three or more course assignments, and have up to 175 students ...

A Killeen Independent School District teacher was fired after giving students an assignment that was filled with offensive and racial slurs, according to a letter from Superintendent Dr. John Craft.

A third-grade teacher at Forest Elementary School in Orange, New Jersey, has been fired one month after her suspension over an assignment which had students write "get well" letters to convicted ...