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Liberals Unhappy Commentary Given the irked and fearful state of the liberal temper at the present time, many people might find it hard to believe that liberalism used to be fun. During the four years of President Donald Trump, liberals were miserable, sinking ever further into resentment and incredulity, a sense of history and America robbing them of their rightful place in control of the country. Unfortunately, the ascent of Joe Biden hasn’t much improved the mood, either. They have to spen...

Print It is often said that California has no seasons. As any actual California resident can tell you, that is simply not true. We have loads of seasons including but not limited to: Fire season, awards season, pilot season and how-did-my-kid-and-her-4.0-not-get-into-a-UC? season. We are currently smack dab in the middle of the last one. Like so much in this state, the University of California system is a victim of its own popularity. Between the sunshine and the stellar academic programs, not ...

My Turn: Its time to focus on quality for public schools Published: 4/14/2021 9:00:07 AM Bill Gates, the biggest funder and supporter of Common Core, once said, “It would be great if our education stuff worked, but that we won’t know for probably a decade.” About a decade after the implementation of Common Core, we now know it failed. In Tom Loveless’s new book Between the State and the Schoolhouse, he explains that after a decade of Common Core State Standards in English language, art...

Scholarship students were, on average, up to 43 percent more likely to attend college and up to 20 percent more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree.

cnelson@thealpenanews.com News Photo by Crystal Nelson Tables in Alpena High School’s gymnasium were set up in advance of state testing which is to begin next Tuesday. Students will be spaced three feet apart during the testing. ALPENA — School districts in Northeast Michigan are preparing to administer state tests to students amid the latest surge of coronavirus. Some Northeast Michigan school districts plan to move forward with the required testing next week, while other schools will be...

is the chief executive officer of The Lewis Prize for Music, and lives in Coronado. Last fall, Luna, Bruno, Cesar and Kate enrolled in college immediately out of high school. As Latinx youth who speak English as a second language, college was never a certainty for them. Their start was even more impressive in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, when enrollment from low income and majority non-White high school students declined significantly more than enrollment at high-income or low-minority-...

Copy URL Most of the teenagers participating in the world’s largest math and science test believe that they can improve their own intelligence, and the strength of this “growth mindset” is linked not just to how well they do but to their own sense of well-being. In 2018, the Program for International Student Assessment asked some 600,000 15-year-olds from 78 countries and economies whether they believed their own intelligence is something fixed and unchangeable; disagreeing with that ...

US coronavirus: Fauci says new Covid-19 cases are at a disturbing level as the US is primed for a surge CNN 4 hrs ago By Madeline Holcombe, CNN © Brian Wells/Times Herald/USA Today Medical Assistant Joann e Grajeda, a volunteer from El Paso, Tx., administers a COVID-19 antigen test at a testing clinic on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, at Memorial Stadium in Port Huron. The number of new Covid-19 cases has plateaued at a "disturbingly high level," and the US is at risk from a...

Fauci says new Covid-19 cases are at a disturbing level as the US is primed for a surge The number of new Covid-19 cases has plateaued at a “disturbingly high level,” and the US is at risk from a new surge, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned on Wednesday. Although off the highs of earlier this year, there were still more than 61,000 new cases reported on Wednesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. And the lack of continued significant decreases in infections is a concern, the directo...

USED denies Michigan’s request to waive federal requirement to test students during pandemic Updated:  Tags:  MDE has informed school districts that during the COVID-19 pandemic, it does not support requiring otherwise remote or virtual students to be brought into school solely for the purpose of state assessment. LANSING, Mich. – The U.S. Department of Education has denied Michigan’s request to waive the federal requirement to administer the state summative assessments, the Michigan De...