The stretch of semi-rural land on No. 6 Road in Richmond, B.C., is home to blueberry farms, multimillion-dollar mansions and an 18-hole golf course. Those Metro Vancouver properties are all now encompassed by a landmark Aboriginal title claim that was successfully established by the Cowichan Nation last week. The ruling in B.C. Supreme Court confirmed Cowichan Aboriginal title and fishing rights over the stretch of land on Lulu Island next to the south arm of the Fraser River, where the nation historically had a summer village and members fished for salmon. read more
CHARLOTTE " Federal investigators accuse Charlotte community activist Cedric Dean of exploiting homeless people to defraud Medicaid out of millions of dollars. Dean used the money to buy homes, cars and fund his lifestyle, feds said, and now they're moving to seize those assets. read more
The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable. President Barack Obama's signature achievement allowed people to buy insurance on marketplaces with subsidies based on their income. The architects of the program assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected. read more
In summer 2025, so-called "Chat Control" became a huge topic of public attention. This is because in a major vote planned for 13 or 14 October, EU governments will decide whether to endorse or reject a mass surveillance, encryption-breaking and anonymity-ending law read more
This month, the Department of Education released its latest edition of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the standardized tests better known as the Nation's Report Card. The results have left me blazing with rage. In my home state of California, for instance, only 30% of public school fourth graders can read proficiently. Fully 41% cannot even read at a basic level " which is to say, they cannot really understand and interpret written text at all. Eighth graders, as you might expect, look almost as bad. read more
In fact Minnesota dropped and have adopted Mississippi's programs
Minnesota's overhaul of literacy instruction through the Minnesota Reading to Ensure Academic Development (READ) Act passed and signed into law in 2023 is trying to emulate part of the reforms Mississippi implemented a decade ago so we too can hopefully achieve similar success.
www.americanexperiment.org
I guess Mississippi's secret is just holding the dumb ones back because a 25 year old 8th grade should be able to do at least decently on the national tests.
#69 | Posted by Sycophant
This is ignorant, you can't read.
Its more than that, they changed back to phonics instruction.
Relying on federally supported research from the Institute of Education Science, the state invested in phonics, fluency, vocabulary and reading comprehension. The law provided K-3 teachers with training and support to help students master reading by the end of third grade.
theconversation.com
But older kids were still behind,
Of course they are they were behind in 4th grade, talk about your morons.
Wake me up when you stop deflecting to people who aren't even in power.
#27 | POSTED BY HORSTNGRABEN
As usual you ask for him to renounce some anon group, but you can't renounce someone running for office explicitly wanting his opponents children to be killed.
What a PoS you are HorseBlower.