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Most wealthy countries provide workers with paid time off when they become parents, fall ill or need to care for loved ones.It's one of the great no-brainers of public policy: It benefits newborns, families and the entire economy.The US is a glaring exception.It could reap enormous gains by creating a national paid family leave program.

I heard my father's voice for the first time three years ago when I was 14 years old.For years, a CD had been sitting in a clear plastic case in my desk drawer, but I had never been able to get myself to play it.I would pick up the shiny disc, stare at the faded black ink that said Donor Interview, notice my distorted reflection in the silver circle, then put the CD back down.

Look closely at Kayla Rumpp's work - which locates itself somewhere on the border between painting and sculpture - and you might see the echoes of an unusual source material: Popsicle sticks.After earning her undergraduate degree, Rumpp worked as an elementary school teacher - and found all sorts of unlikely inspiration in her students' arts and crafts, from their Crayola crayons to those distinctively shaped wooden sticks.

Former Cardinals player J.J. Watt publicly addressed the viral Baby Gronk story, and his wholesome take will resonate with most parents.Ex- Arizona Cardinals pass-rusher J.J. Watt has since retired from the NFL, but he's still using his platform to share his opinions on trending stories across the league.

Going into his last tennis match of the school year, high school senior Lorris Nzouakeu knew he might get knocked out in straight sets.He was scheduled for one of the first matches of the day during the regionals competition in western Maryland, against a student from another school who'd won the championship last year.

When he was growing up among the Doukhobors, a pacifist religious group that emigrated to Canada from Tsarist Russia, J.J. Verigin would sometimes arrive home from school to find naked elderly women trying to burn down his family's house.One attempt, in 1969, succeeded, lamented Mr. Verigin, 67, who recently recounted the episode.

A bill requiring public school districts in Illinois to establish full-day kindergarten within the next four years passed the state legislature Friday and awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker's approval.Democratic Rep. Mary Beth Canty of Arlington Heights introduced the bill that would mandate schools to create a full-day kindergarten program by the 2027-28 school year.

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We know the best insights about what works in a school classroom come from teachers.That's why when many of them told us they are upset about the dismantling of the Los Angeles Unified School District's successful Primary Promise reading and math program we became concerned.

Hello!I'm here to help you learn and grow.Let's get started on your learning journey.undefined The new, A.I.-assisted Khanmigo allows students to chat with simulated historical figures or co-write stories with the software.Khan Academy, the popular online learning nonprofit, recently developed an experimental A.I.-assisted tutoring bot for schools called Khanmigo.

A shopping mall in Texas, a private school in Tennessee, a bank in Kentucky and a dance studio in California: these are the sites of some of the public mass shootings in the U.S. in 2023 alone, representing just a slice of the presumed safe spaces rocked by these tragedies.As mass shootings in the country have risen, evidence is mounting that they are having a far-reaching mental health impact.

Lindsay Durtschi, a member of the P.T.A. in bright-red Escambia County, Fla., knows that coming out as a public face in the fight against book banning could make her life difficult, but she's made peace with it.I don't want my business to suffer, the optometrist and mother of elementary school-age girls told me.

The Oakland teachers strike continued Thursday, after a more contentious turn the day before, as allegations of misleading figures, canceled board meetings and a doubling-down against the common good left the explosive labor battle perhaps more muddled and messy entering its second week than it was in its first.

I've lived in Arlington Heights most of my life.Elementary school at St. James, swimming lessons at Rec Park, graduation at Arlington High School, caddying at Rolling Green Country Club.My first job was delivering the Arlington Day newspaper on my bike.My second was picking up empty beer bottles and emptying ashtrays at Beverly Lanes.

Book publisher Penguin Random House has filed a lawsuit accusing a Florida school district's anti-LGBTQ+ book ban of violating constitutional rights to free speech and due process.The lawsuit's plaintiffs include the publisher, the free-speech organization PEN America, as well as authors and parents who have been negatively affected by the ban.

Here's a look at the life of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States.Birth date: July 6, 1946 Birth place: New Haven, Connecticut Birth name: George Walker Bush Father: George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States Mother: Barbara (Pierce) Bush Marriage: Laura (Welch) Bush (November 5, 1977-present) Children: Barbara and Jenna (November 25, 1981) Education: Yale University, B.A., 1968; Harvard Business School, M.B.A., 1975 Military: Texas Air National Guard, F-102 fighter pilot, 1968-1970 Religion: Methodist After John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush is the second president to be the son of a previous president.

Lawmakers have largely failed to respond to the hundreds of mass shootings since the shooting in Uvalde, Texas.Families participate in a candlelight vigil dedicated to the 19 children and two adults murdered during the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, one year ago.Brandon Bell / Getty Images New polling demonstrates that a majority of Americans believe it's more important to control gun violence than it is to protect gun rights.

The United States experiences so many mass shootings that journalists do not usually linger long after the attacks.Reporters and photographers move on to other stories, while the families and friends of the victims continue to grieve.One year ago today, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

Gunman opened fire in academic building and student union on Monday night before killing self, police say.A gunman has fatally shot three people at Michigan State University in the United States and wounded five others before killing himself.The attacker opened fire on Monday night at an academic building Berkey Hall and a nearby student union at the East Lansing campus, according to Chris Rozman, interim deputy chief of the campus police department.

A series of racist incidents at an elementary school in Upland has sparked outrage from parents, district officials said, after children reportedly targeted classmates with demeaning drawings.The mother of a girl at Pepper Tree Elementary School said her daughter, who is Black, was given drawings with the messages, "You're my favorite monkey" and "To my favorite cotton picker," according to KTLA-TV Channel 5, which obtained images of the drawings.

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Outraged conservative parents at an L.A. elementary school say they plan to keep their children home on the school's Pride Day to protest the school teaching students about gay parents.A group of parents at the North Hollywood kindergarten-through-5th-grade Saticoy Elementary School launched an Instagram page about a week ago calling out the school's administration and urging other parents to keep their children home on June 2, the day the school plans to hold its Gay Pride and Rainbow Day assembly, according to the page.

Penguin Random House, the largest publisher in the U.S., has sued a Florida county school board over its decisions to ban and restrict access to books.Joining the lawsuit are five authors, two parents of students and the advocacy group PEN America.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A new federal lawsuit alleges that recent decisions by officials in a Florida county to ban and restrict access to books in school libraries violates constitutional rights to free speech and equal protection under the law.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday sharply criticized climate activists as nutty for drastic protests such as blocking streets or gluing themselves to famous paintings in museums.I think it's completely nutty to somehow stick yourself to a painting or on the street, Scholz said during a visit to an elementary school in the town of Kleinmachnow outside of Berlin, German news agency dpa reported.

What does it mean to be a pop songwriter in 2023?Part of the job is what it has always been: coming up with catchy melodies, terse lyrics and instrumental hooks; creating crisply defined verses and choruses; capturing short attention spans while tapping into broadly shared experiences.Pop structure is always happening in my songs, said Hannah Jadagu, 20, whose debut album, Aperture, will be released on Friday.

A gunman opened fire at a crowded mall north of Dallas yesterday, killing at least eight people and wounding seven others before he was shot to death, the authorities said.The shooting was the second-deadliest in the U.S. this year.The authorities didn't identify the gunman but said he had acted alone.

The shooter, identified as Kosta Kecmanovic, drew sketches of classrooms and wrote a list of children he planned to "liquidate", according to senior police official Veselin Milic.The incident at Vladislav Ribnikar school in central Belgrade left six other pupils and one teacher with injuries.

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy.Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.An armed assailant shot and killed six people at a Nashville elementary school on Monday.Stephen Colbert called the situation horrible and familiar, and horrible because it is so familiar, noting that the tragedy was the 130th mass shooting of 2023, and 2023 is only 87 days old.

As a spokesman for the Nashville Police wrapped up a news conference on the mass shooting at an elementary school, an exasperated mother stepped up to the cluster of microphones and cried out: Aren't you guys tired of covering this?Ashbey Beasley said she and her young son were at the scene of another mass shooting just nine months earlier, at a Fourth of July parade in their town of Highland Park, Ill.

31 minutes ago31 minutes ago At least eight children are among the dead and several others wounded after teenager went on a shooting spree at an elementary school in Belgrade.Police said eight children and a security guard were killed when a teenage boy opened fire at a school in Serbia's capital of Belgrade on Wednesday.

31 minutes ago31 minutes ago At least eight children are among the dead and several others wounded after teenager went on a shooting spree at an elementary school in Belgrade.Police said eight children and a security guard were killed when a teenage boy opened fire at a school in Serbia's capital of Belgrade on Wednesday.

23 minutes ago23 minutes ago One person was killed and several wounded when a teenager opened fire at an elementary school in Belgrade.A school security guard died and at least five students were wounded when a teenage boy opened fire at a school in Serbia's capital of Belgrade on Wednesday.The Interior Ministry said the seventh-grade student used his father's gun in the shooting.

Police officers arrive at the Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, after reports of a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 27, 2023.METROPOLITAN NASHVILLE PD (via REUTERS) A female shooter wielding two assault-style rifles and a pistol killed three students and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday in what marks the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country growing increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools.

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After multiple cases of bullying and concerns of negligent administration, a group of fed up Coney Island parents call on local pols to help them address their concerns of poor leadership at P.S. 90 elementary school, namely Greta Hawkins, the school's principal.

By Jonathan Mattise | Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn.Three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at a private Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday, and the female shooter also died after being shot by police, authorities said.The violence occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school for about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade.

A school principal in Tallahassee, Florida has been fired following parental complaints about a lesson on Michelangelo's masterpiece David (1501-04), deemed "pornographic" by one aggrieved parent.The now-former principal, Hope Carrasquilla, informed the Huffington Post that, due to a "series of miscommunications", a customary letter informing parents of students at Tallahassee Classical School about this feature of the sixth-grade art history curriculum was not sent out, further contributing to parents' outrage.

David Daniel knows his son needs help.The 8-year-old spent first grade in remote learning and several weeks of second grade in quarantine.The best way to catch him up, research suggests, is to tutor him several times a week during school.But his Indianapolis school offers Saturday or after-school tutoring - programs that don't work for Daniel, a single father.

LOS ANGELES Classes were canceled for more than 420,000 Los Angeles students on Tuesday as school employees and teachers kicked off a three-day strike, facing off against the administrators in the school district, the second largest in the nation.As rain fell before dawn, the work stoppage began with bus drivers walking a picket line outside a Los Angeles Unified School District lot where they normally would be starting their routes.

Here is a phrase that pulls at my heartstrings every time: Used to be a Pizza Hut.I think about the eponymous blog every time I pass one of those too-recognizable structures.The one in my hometown is now a Mexican restaurant.It's probably more beloved than Pizza Hut was, but whenever I see it, I can't help but think of the weekend afternoons I spent at that Pizza Hut as a kid, where I'd chatter about my love of the Backstreet Boys or Pokémon and feel unbridled excitement at my rare treat of soda, served - of course - in one of those craggy-textured red plastic cups.