US children fall further behind in reading, make little improvement in math on national exam
New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math.
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While crime rate in Edmonton has dropped, violent crime incidents have increased since 2019: EPS
The number of violent incidents across the city has risen significantly over the last five years. In 2019, 13,224 incidents ...
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Report: Minnesota’s greenhouse gas emissions bounced back after pandemic, still below 2019 level
Transportation remains the state’s largest source of greenhouse gases, contributing nearly 30 percent of emissions. It’s not ...
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New Hampshire’s high ‘National Report Card’ scores hailed as good news post-pandemic
New Hampshire is in the top 10% of states when it comes to fourth-grade and eighth-grade reading, according to the latest ...
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Graduation Rates in Oregon Trend Up, Even as Officials Say Latest Class Struggled with Absenteeism
The Oregon Department of Education released its latest graduation rate data for the class of 2024 on Thursday morning, ...
AISD student scores on national test returning to pre-pandemic levels
AISD said the latest testing cycle of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, showed that AISD student ...
Who got to work remotely in 2024 and who didn’t, according to data
To better understand how access to a remote schedule varies by a worker’s ability, job type, and demographics, accessiBe ...
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Scranton Club lawsuit decision affirmed by Superior Court
About four years after a Lackawanna County judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Scranton Club seeking property damages ...
Q&A on Trump’s Impending Exit from the World Health Organization
As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the ...
These 6 metros have the highest share of remote workers. Here’s what they reveal about the future of remote work
For many workers, remote work wasn't a blip of the pandemic but a work structure that lingered long after, especially for ...
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Americans Still Consider COVID Major Public Health Threat
People still see COVID-19 as an ongoing public health threat, even though the pandemic officially ended in 2023, acc ...
RFK Jr. Says He Doesn’t Know if COVID-19 Vaccines Work
R obert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was grilled by ...