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St. Joseph School in Medford canceled classes until Thursday after a "significant" number of students were sent home Monday with stomach bug symptoms, the school's spokesperson said Tuesday. A letter sent to parents said the school would cancel classes and EDP to stop the illness from spreading before the holidays. The time off will be used to "deep clean and sanitize the school," the letter said.

Salary increases, better health care benefits, and a concerted effort to improve working conditions were among several conditions promised to about 3,000 district employees represented by two unions United Teachers of Richmond and Teamsters Local 856. The agreement with United Teachers of Richmond was ratified by members during a weekend of voting. Union President Francisco Ortiz said 86% of members participated in the vote, with more than 92% of votes cast in support of the contract.

"When you grow up in a small town, you learn early that people are watching," he once said. "It teaches you to carry yourself the right way."

The EU provides funding through the scheme for people to study, train or volunteer in other European countries for up to a year. The UK replaced it with its own Turing scheme in 2021, which funds similar placements worldwide. The government said it would not comment on ongoing talks. Prime Minister Keir Starmer had suggested in May that a youth mobility scheme could be part of a new deal with the EU.

Acting as navigators and coaches in high-poverty schools, site coordinators from the nonprofit Communities in Schools (CIS) help students access resources both within and outside of school, including tutoring, food aid, housing and health services. CIS is the nation's largest program of its kind, serving nearly 2 million students in more than 3,000 schools - nearly three times bigger than Head Start.

Ask any instructor what helps students learn, and it's unlikely any of them will answer "a really big wall of text". It's incredible to me, as both a university instructor and a UX designer, that the army of people working at OpenAI are not imagining better tools for our students. I want to walk you through a design pattern in ChatGPT that, despite its good intentions, might be creating unintended hurdles for students.

Positive social engagement, according to Anita Woolfolk (1998), which of course, also includes education, is enhanced when students understand that choices have consequences (Purje, 2014). One of the keys to achieving this goal, of positive engagement, according to Woolfolk, is through the consistent application of self- management. Woolfolk highlights that psychologists became interested in self-management behaviors because studies found that students subjected to externally imposed behavioral regimes, who were compelled to conform to a set of behavioral norms, too often refused to behave appropriately.

We've all been there. You're three hours into a study session, hunched over your desk with tabs multiplying like rabbits, your phone buzzing with notifications, and that nagging feeling that you're not actually retaining anything. Digital learning promised us flexibility and endless resources, but sometimes it feels more like drowning in information while learning nothing at all. A new concept design called Check Mate is tackling this exact problem, and it's making waves in the design community for all the right reasons.

The government has promised to create 50,000 more places for children with special educational needs (Send) in mainstream schools in England. It plans to invest 3bn over the next three years, partly funded by cancelling the building of some planned free schools. Councils - who will receive the funding - have argued the money needs to be diverted to the right areas and to the people who know what is needed in their local communities.

Kids are struggling academically and teachers are struggling right beside them as they deal with issues like politics in the classroom, low pay, and lack of resources. In other words: education is a struggle right now. One third grade teacher, who shares content as @salami4prez on TikTok, posted a simple video saying that things would improve if parents just consistently sent their kids to school.

Frustrations ran high Wednesday night as the Oakland Unified School District faces a $100 million budget shortfall next year.

The most recent data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which monitors the spread of winter viruses, found there were 107 acute respiratory incidents in educational settings in England between 24 and 30 November. An "acute respiratory incident" is defined for a school as two or more cases occurring among pupils within a five-day period. It could apply to a range of respiratory illnesses like influenza, RSV, covid or the common cold.

Tadgh O'Donovan, science teacher in Carrigaline Community School and content creator @teachwithtadgh, took a chance during the pandemic, and he hasn't looked back since

Tadgh O'Donovan, science teacher in Carrigaline Community School and content creator @teachwithtadgh, took a chance during the pandemic, and he hasn't looked back since

Facing a job market that had shed thousands of newsroom positions and a landscape where one-third of working journalists now identify as "creator journalists," academia will have no choice but to pivot - or risk losing its relevance. The journalism curriculum of the future won't just teach students how to report the news; it will teach them how to be their own newsroom: part reporter, part product manager, part audience strategist and part small business owner.

Learning is not the result of exposure to information. Learning is the result of the brain actively pulling information out. When learners reread, rewatch, or review content, it feels familiar. Familiarity creates the illusion of mastery. The brain recognizes the material, and the learner assumes recognition means understanding. Recognition is not learning. Memory is strengthened not by putting information into the mind, but by bringing it back out. Retrieval practice is the process of recalling information without referring to the original content.

As AI becomes integral to modern learning, these platforms are now expected to deliver predictive insights, automated workflows, and highly personalized learning experiences. Yet many providers still operate legacy LMS systems, unable to support modern workloads or data-intensive features. These platforms are rigid, costly to maintain, and slow to update. Release cycles can often stretch into quarterly or annual updates, creating a widening gap between user expectations and the platform's capabilities.

They were terminated by the Trump administration in a March reduction-in-force, but the courts intervened, temporarily blocking the department from completing their terminations. That left 299 OCR employees, roughly half of its staff, in legal and professional limbo because the department elected to place them on paid administrative leave while the legal battle plays out rather than allow them to work.

"active aggressor"

In a report conducted by the Guardian, the proposal of a four-day week for schools was met with an overwhelmingly positive response. Parents cited everything from their children's mental health to not worrying so much about absences as reasons for the four-day week to work. Teachers even loved the idea, noting that if the fifth day of the week were simply a teacher workday, it would free up their weekends from school and teaching tasks, allowing them to actually get a much-needed (and deserved) break.

To be able to see students, to get to know them, to get to see how they grow and change during these four years, and then to see them have success as they launch into the world, and then to see that they reach back so quickly to give back and to see the way that our community supports our students as they are navigating, exploring their values and their purpose and what they're feeling called to do. All of that is just really rewarding.

NEW YORK -- Digital Girl is empowering inner city youth, especially young girls, to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Founded in 2014 and based in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the nonprofit serves students across all five boroughs. More than 6,000 students have learned computer science since its inception. The nonprofit is on a mission to close the gender and diversity gap in the tech industry through its hands-on, engaging STEM programming.

"My husband was amazing and made it very clear he wouldn't be offended if I didn't want to take his last name," Glasscock tells TODAY.com. "But I thought about it for a while, and it was really important to me that we have the same last name for our future kids."

My own sleepless thoughts on why the future of learning must go beyond crash tutorials and tackle ethics, accessibility, and human-centered design. It's 3:47 AM. I should be asleep. Instead, I'm lying here, staring at the ceiling, replaying a single restless thought: We don't need more courses. We need better ones. Everywhere I look, someone is launching a "Learn Figma in 5 Days" crash course or a "Top 10 AI Hacks for Beginners" tutorial. And don't get me wrong - those courses aren't useless. They scratch an itch, they help you pick up a tool, and sometimes they even get you a quick win.