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"These groups are changing the way girls see themselves in their own communities and in our world, helping create the leaders we need for the brighter future we all deserve,"

Ahead of the 2025-2026 season, the Catholic High School Athletic Association has changed its cheerleading competition format to realign with state and Universal Cheerleaders Association guidelines, the Advance/SILive.com has learned.

Research across diverse domains-from economic decision-making to social stereotyping-has shown that human beings are " cognitive misers." In other words, our default mode for processing information favors bite-sized chunks. Leaving aside individual variability and motivational overrides, we prefer shortcuts and snap judgments over long, winding paths and deliberative thinking. However, the kind of research that has illuminated these very tendencies is itself the result of both zigzagging trails (including unavoidable dead ends, bushwacks, and backtracks) and systematic analysis.

Kat Lloyd stands in the dim light on the first-floor staircase of a dilapidated, New York City tenement building. Before her: a tour of wide-eyed teens on a field trip from their high school in Queens. Their guide, Lloyd, encourages the students to imagine the building's 22 apartments when they were new, back in 1863, and brimming with mostly German immigrants.

At Middle School 50 in Brooklyn, New York, principal Benjamin Honoroff and his students are pumped to start the day - a dramatic transformation from when he came in a decade ago. "We were on a list of persistently dangerous schools, and there'd been some pretty drastic enrollment decline from over a thousand students to 160 students," Honoroff said. But the former high school debate coach had an idea. He took a chance and integrated into every class, across all grade levels.

We were talking about her decision to home school or unschool, or home educate, depending on your tribal affiliation her two children, making her simultaneously part of a broader trend and also somewhat strange to herself. The cliche of home schooling still leans on the idea of a fringe choice made by fanatical parents who produce a poorly socialised child if you said of a child: They're home schooled, you'd trigger a knowing look that implied: Say no more. Well maybe all that is changing.

"Phoenix Education Partners, parent company of the for-profit University of Phoenix, which announced its IPO plans one day before the shutdown began, said on Wednesday that it has priced its shares at $32. That's the midpoint of its earlier targeted range of between $31 and $33 a share. The company intends to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the "PXED" ticker symbol. Selling shareholders will offer roughly 4.3 million shares of its common stock,"

Some people find it easy to learn a new language, but the majority of us don't find it easy at all. I've lost count of the number of people who've asked me for advice - and who like me started with apps and then found that though they could understand written French, when it came to speaking French for real - they were flummoxed: "couldn't understand a word" said one person.

A South London teacher has been banned from the classroom for life after a disciplinary panel heard he made sexually explicit and flirtatious remarks to a teenage pupil. The comments by Amrinder Singh Pannu including saying you're one horny girl and discussing having sex with her after she turned 18. Mr Pannu, 38, formerly Head of Science at St Mark's Church of England Academy in Mitcham, was recorded making a series of inappropriate comments to the pupil, referred to as Pupil A, during a private conversation.

They're bringing that strain and pressure to work, and it's showing up as a record low in employee engagement: an abysmal 21%. The damage adds up: Gallup estimates the collective cost of employee disengagement to the global economy at an eye-watering $438 billion. [3] As L&D leaders, we've entered a whole new era of flux and uncertainty, but also opportunity. How can we help our people grow into adaptable, innovative, and resilient employees...who stick around?

According to a Friday letter from Staten Island District 31 Superintendent Dr. Roderick Palton, obtained by the Advance/SILive.com, the school community was notified of an "important leadership transition at PS 3." "We recognize that leadership changes can raise questions, and I want to assure you that our commitment to the students, staff, and families of PS 3 remains our top priority," said Palton in the letter. Joseph O'Brien was officially welcomed to the school community in a Sept. 8 letter from Palton. He replaced Elmer Myers, who retired after 10 years at the school.

The word syllabus makes me think of "syllabus week," those opening days of a college semester, when there was still time to switch out of an arduous course. I was a picky student, I'll admit; if my would-be professor was lacking in sense of humor, or assigning too many readings, I'd just jump ship for something else. This process, repeated over and over for years, imbued the word syllabus with a degree of pessimism.

In an essay for The Conversation published on Sunday, Anitia Lubbe, an associate professor at North-West University in South Africa, said universities are "focusing only on policing" AI use instead of asking a more fundamental question: whether students are really learning. Most assessments, she wrote, still reward memorization and rote learning - "exactly the tasks that AI performs best." Lubbe warned that unless universities rethink how they teach and assess students, they risk producing graduates who can use AI but not critique its output.

The note gave different dollar amounts matched up with hilarious volunteer options like baking cupcakes, etc. For example, parents were invited to pay $15 if they would "rather not bake anything or shop for cupcakes this year." Anyone wishing to "not peddle products to my family and friends from catalogs" could do so for $50. Meanwhile, parents who did not wish to "run, walk, ride a bike or do any of the 'fun' things like these" were invited to pay $75 for the privilege.

Everywhere I look, someone is launching a "Learn Figma in 5 Days" crash course or a "Top 10 AI Hacks for Beginners" tutorial. And don't get me wrong - those courses aren't useless. They scratch an itch, they help you pick up a tool, and sometimes they even get you to a quick win. But they're not the kind of courses that shape how we design, write, or create.

"Being named to New Mexico's list of approved providers is a tremendous honor and reflects our commitment to providing teachers with the evidence-based resources they need to drive student success in mathematics," said Sr. Director of Mathematics, Joanne Whitley. "We believe that when teachers are empowered with the right tools, they can close learning gaps and unlock every student's potential in mathematics."

Choose your supervisor(s) very carefully. I've seen way too many students bullied, harassed and kicked out of the programme with their confidence in pieces.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

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The truth? Your brain doesn't learn best by going in straight lines. It learns more when it has to switch contexts and jump tracks. That's where the interleaving method comes in. Instead of cramming a single subject until it's dull, you mix topics-like hitting shuffle instead of repeat. It feels harder in the moment, but it's exactly that mental juggling that cements knowledge for the long haul.

The court wasn't quite perfect. Just about everything else was, though, as Harker hosted Branham in the first of its kind, Battle on the Turf homecoming volleyball match on Harker's football field. The weather cooperated, producing a gorgeously cloudless, nearly windless fall evening. Later in the match, some condensation accumulated on the court and made things a little bit touch and go for the players.

The first year we lived in the US, we were in a gated community with other young families. Everything felt new and exciting - an adventure - just what we wanted. We arrived in the summer, and I remember loving the sun, constantly being at the pool, and spending endless hours with Freddie and the other young families in the neighborhood.

There's an old Latin phrase that has stayed with me lately: Succisa virescit. The translation roughly means, "When cut down, we grow back stronger." Originally the sixth-century motto of the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino, it reflects a simple but profound truth about the human condition-growth often begins in the aftermath of loss. What was once a call to spiritual and physical resilience has become, for me, a powerful metaphor for cognition itself,

Once the majority's native tongue, it was assailed and diminished as a daily, working, spoken language under British colonialism and became largely confined to rural west coast districts for much of the 20th century, kept alive by generations of families. But over recent decades the number of schools teaching the national curriculum exclusively through Irish has risen significantly, from fewer than 20 in the 1970s, to more than 200 today.

In today's manufacturing world, precision is the ultimate advantage. A single oversight can halt production, compromise worker safety, or ripple through global supply chains. From advanced plants in the US to automotive hubs in Europe and industrial mega-sites in the Middle East, manufacturers face mounting pressure to deliver efficiency, compliance, and innovation-all without error. With global competition intensifying and Industry 4.0 transforming shop floors, traditional training is no longer enough. Manufacturers need learning strategies that not only keep pace with change.