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New clothes. New backpacks. New lunch boxes. Notebooks and markers. The signs had been there for days. Then it arrived: The new school year began for my grandchildren, experiencing the thrill of the new school year and all it entails.
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February 14, 2020But can crossword puzzles really affect a news organization’s bottom line? There’s evidence to suggest the answer is yes. Publishers have found that the number of active days a reader has on their site is a telling metric for determining whether or not they’ll continue a subscription. Encouraging readers to develop a crossword habit may help. At The Wall Street Journal, for example, a team looking to increase subscribers’ active days found that playing a puzzle had a more dramatic impact on reader retention than other actions the team had been promoting to new subscr...
PUSD's pre-K through second grade came back on March 4 and students in grades 3 to 5 followed on Monday. Middle and high schools were on track to reopen this Thursday after the state moved Alameda County into the red tier.
PLEASANTON, Calif. (KGO) -- Middle and high school students in Pleasanton returned to the classroom Thursday for the first time in a year. The school district is the first in Alameda County to open up schools to older kids. Pleasanton elementary schools opened last week. "I think it's not about being first, it's about being there for kids and we were able to get our ducks in a row, so to speak," said Superintendent David Haglund. Haglund is now getting calls from school districts across the state looking at him as an example. "I was talking to a board member from Southern California last nig...