The practice of holding kids back a grade is becoming a more popular solution to address low achievement scores. But research suggests it often does more harm than good for students.
Trump’s baseless claims about migrants in Springfield, Ohio, reflect a long history of American prejudice against Haitians. In Washington, those falsehoods have driven policy.
Some materials react and generate potentially helpful particles when exposed to light. Analytical AI can help scientists sort through materials to find ones with this property.
Management of NC coastal pocosin ecosystems is difficult. Changing climate, errors of past drainage programs have increased wildfire hazard.
Driving wildfire risk along NC coast. Terrain, past mistakes and climate change create volatile mix. is a stor…
Voters will be asked this November whether to amend the Missouri Constitution to make it the 11th state to ban ranked-choice voting.
Ranked-choice voting asks voters to rank candidates from favorite to least favorite, rather than requiring them to pick only one candidate. Maine and Alaska have adopted ranked-choice voting for some of their elections. So have cities such as New York City, Minneapolis and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Residents who’ve seen how GOP treats state’s former conservative dynasty aren’t surprised by what’s seen as a political bombshell elsewhere, Kerry Drake opines.
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news.The Chicago Board of Education is one of the state’s largest employers — with more than 41,000 people on staff as of June 30, 2024.On top of that, the city’…
A coalition of clean energy organizations hired experts to model alternatives, and found adding a single gas plant alongside a mix of existing plants, energy storage, efficiency and demand response, and market purchases that could avoid the risk of stranded assets.
