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WSU Office of the Provost added COVID-19 caregiver responsibilities to its list of circumstances that allow faculty members to request modified duties from their work.  When faculty members are granted modifications, they are still fully employed and paid, as usual, Senior Vice Provost Laura Hill said during a COVID-19 Town Hall Wednesday morning.  Modifications for faculty members in charge of dependents because of the pandemic can request up to two academic terms off, she said. Other modifi...

WSU engineering students Grace Harris and Alyssa Hovenkotter received the scholarships.  SEL created its scholarship program this year to support students in their engineering education and careers, said Stephanie Schweitzer, SEL senior vice president of marketing and communications. SEL hopes to award yearly scholarships. “Engineers are needed around the world,” she said. “We’re interested, as an organization and as an industry, in increasing the pipeline [to have] more young people ...

And our textbooks are twice as big as other countries textbooks. and what it led to is we try to teach too much every year and we dont teach it well. and so other systems are just blowing us away in math. as we switch, like in kentucky, which was the first to adopt the common core, theyve seen substantial gains in their math learning. so its a very good design. it means you can go up to websites and look at their material and then have it match what youre learning. if your kids move, like say mi...

Basic knowledge should be is not well done. the answer is absolutely. its fantastically better than what came before where things were out of order. some states didnt teach you enough to be able to take the college entrance exam. and so you were disadvantaged there. some states had things that were done in a different form than they appear on the college entrance exam. so you get lower scores just because the notation and the way it was taught was different. in the past the u.s. designed math te...