Modern high-stakes testing really kicked into gear with No Child Left Behind, and then got another huge boost with the advent of Common Core. All through that era, teachers pushed back against the fracturing of reading…
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With escalating public protests over steep fuel price rises, Iran shut down its internet over the weekend to prevent images and videos leaking to the outside world, and to frustrate attempts by protesters to organise themselves. The…
Learn About the Body—But Keep It Clothed This is a page from a health and physical education textbook for third and fourth grade school students. The textbook is Minna no hoken (Health for Everyone, published in 2011…
The journalists were holding their laptops in their hands and carried placards, which read: “100 days, No Internet”. (Photo: Twitter/MirzaWaheed) Agroup of Kashmiri journalists held a peaceful protest at the Press Club in Srinagar on…
SpaceX, on November 11, launched 60 mini ‘Starlink’ satellites. This is the second batch of an orbiting network meant to provide global internet coverage. The ‘Falcon’ rocket launched into the morning sky, marking the unprecedented…
Sir, – Margaret Marshall (Letters, November 7th) points out that poll after poll shows that a majority of parents in Northern Ireland would like their children’s schools to transform to integrated status, yet the majority…
Project will be implemented through Kerala State Electricity Board and Kerala IT Infrastructure Limited | REUTERS image for representation State cabinet has given a nod for Rs 1,548 crore high-speed internet project in Kerala. The…
The 21km half-marathon will be a single-loop race from the City Centre to the Kolkata Gate in New Town and back(iStock) The running season will take off from City Centre in Salt Lake on November…
Image posted on Facebook by Dilip Ghosh. The internet is pretty amused with West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh’s statement that Indian cows’ milk contains gold. At a programme in Burdwan district, Ghosh said, “A feature…
If you haven’t updated your WhatsApp, chances are you might be missing some important features in your chat app. The chat company has this time brought in some much-required feature updates for both Android as…