This article was originally published in Kansas Reflector. Cindy Lane takes it personally that Kansas needed a Kansas Blueprint for Literacy initiative to improve preparation of educators to teach reading and funnel more literate students into colleges and the workplace. Lane, retired special education teacher and former superintendent of Kansas City, Kansas, schools, will soon […]
NASA has released the fist galactic image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s new one-gyroscope pointing mode. An issue with one of the gyros took the telescope offline for several weeks. Photo by David Thilker (Johns Hopkins University)/ NASA, ESA, STSci June 19 (UPI) — NASA on Tuesday released a Hubble Space Telescope image captured […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Narendra Modi was sworn in Sunday for a rare third consecutive term as India’s prime minister, relying on his coalition partners after his party failed to win a parliamentary majority in a surprise outcome. Modi and his Cabinet ministers took the oath of office, administered by President Droupadi Murmu, at India’s […]
Districts nationwide are shortening school weeks and packing more students into classrooms because there aren’t enough teachers. Arizona is just one state where almost a quarter of their teaching jobs are consistently vacant. School districts are fighting to fill some of those jobs in Arizona and half of the time they are filled by people who aren’t properly certified. Representatives for school […]
Russia’s daily losses on the Ukrainian battlefield have been ticking upwards since 2022: UK intel “Each year has seen a rise in the daily average loss rate,” the UK’s defense ministry said. Russia’s reliance on attritional warfare could come at the expense of its economy and labor market. Losing nearly a thousand soldiers a day […]
U.S. consumers turned out to be made of sterner stuff than experts had anticipated—much to the delight of economists, politicians and Wall Street alike—but Brian Moynihan is warning the Fed not to push the public too far. Thus far, well-reported “resilient” consumers have managed to keep up their spending despite a combination of inflation and […]
For years, Soper Public Schools had four-day school weeks. It still does, in a way, but its unique method might become outlawed. The southeast Oklahoma district has students complete assignments from home on Fridays. Soper calls them “back to basics” days where students reinforce fundamental lessons, like multiplication tables, the cursive alphabet and reading an […]
This article was originally published in The Conversation. When the Supreme Court outlawed the use of race in college admissions in June 2023, it forced colleges and universities to rethink how to maintain and increase diversity in their student bodies. It’s a topic that political science professor Lauren Foley had been exploring in her new […]