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Career and technical education classes were recognized as the reason some students stay in school, and giving students a pass on end-of-year standardized testing ramifications due to pandemic-related constraints were among the discussions by the Monroe County School Board during the workshop of its Jan. 12 meeting in Key West. Several items were approved in the regular agenda, including the creation of a new position emphasizing professional growth management and community relations; updating board policies; budget summary reports; student progression plan update; legislative policies with ex...

Pups, vampires and a president: The bestselling books of 2020 We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Local authors accounted for eight of the 10 bestselling books in Australia last year, with the irrepressible blue heeler, Bluey, the subject of three of them. The canine hero of the ABC TV series, created by Ludo Studios in Brisbane, had seven books in the overall top 20, with combined sales exceeding 910,000 copies. Despite the emergence of coronavirus and the consequent lockdowns that forced many bricks and mortar ...

Under Currents (Nora Roberts), Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty), The Guardians (John Grisham), Redemption (David Baldacci) and CHRIS SKELTON/Stuff About 3.3 million books were issued across Christchurch City Council’s library network in the past 12 months. Well-known names lead the library waitlist, with Lee and Andrew Child’s Sentinel the most requested, followed by chef Chelsea Winter’s Supergood, Kiwi Rose Carlyle’s debut novel, The Girl in the Mirror, and David Walliams’ The World’s Worst Parents. In the children’s section, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter an...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the number of units in the design for the Sugarloaf Key affordable housing project. Compared to previous school years, there have been measurable losses in student learning due to the coronavirus pandemic. But other updates, such as on the Sugarloaf Key affordable housing project, student achievement and annual financial reports were positive at the in-person and live broadcast of the Monroe County School Board meeting Dec. 15 at Coral Shores High School. Staff presented information about a new student progress monitoring test that is prov...

Advertisement He might have taken his time to write it and he might have been comprehensively beaten to publication by his wife, but Barack Obama’s 768-page memoir, A Promised Land, will be on top of the Christmas bestseller charts in Australia and around the world. The book, which was published on November 18, sold more than 18,000 copies in its first three days here and has now sold more than 71,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan, which surveys print book sales from more than 1600 retailers. In the week to December 12, nearly 17,200 copies of A Promised Land were snapped up. I...