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fromIrish Independent
12 hours ago

Kneecap star among speakers at major event highlighting Irish-language career opportunities for young people

Fís exhibition and Réiteach conference during Seachtain na Gaeilge showcase Irish language opportunities in education, careers, and community beyond traditional teaching roles.
fromwww.caughtoffside.com
6 days ago

Aston Villa star reveals why he needs to live in London not Birmingham

It's a family decision. When I signed for Villa (in 2022), my son started school, but in Birmingham, there aren't any French schools. For us, it was really important that our children could read and write in both French and English. In London, they have the opportunity to do both.
Liverpool FC
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Brown University pays out first workforce grants under deal with Trump

Brown reached an agreement with the Trump administration last summer to restore millions of dollars in federal research funding and to end federal investigations into the institution. In exchange, the university agreed to pay $50 million to organizations in Rhode Island focused on workforce training over the next 10 years. Several other universities reached similar deals with the administration to restore federal funding, though the details of what the schools would pay vary greatly.
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Education
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 months ago

Staff, students remark on state of the Sunnyvale School District

Sunnyvale School District celebrates facility and program improvements while addressing attendance, financial shortfalls, and achievement gaps for underserved student groups.
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

The Hard Part of Parenting Is Seeing Yourself in the Mirror

Somewhere in the process of parenting, you begin to see your younger self in your child-and you are forced to face the parts of yourself you have either buried or never fully understood. I started noticing this mirror effect when my daughter became a teenager. Suddenly, her behavior-makeup, boyfriend, confidence -was triggering emotions I did not expect.
Mental health
fromCity Limits
6 months ago

Comptroller Finds 'Profound Failures' in City Services for English Language Learners

An audit released Monday found that a "a significant percentage" of the school system's English Language Learners (ELLs) hadn't received the services they're legally entitled to, such as required courses or a minimum number of instructional minutes.They have also been denied other legally mandated services, the audit found, such as being identified as ELLs through the Home Language Identification Survey, being tested and placed through the New York State Identification Test for English Language Learners,
Education
fromChalkbeat
8 months ago

We advocated for our son to repeat kindergarten. Now, he's thriving at school.

In many other parts of the country, he wouldn't have started kindergarten until fall 2024. But New York City's rigid age-based enrollment policy means that if your child turns 5 during the calendar year, they're expected to start kindergarten that September.
NYC parents
SF parents
fromSan Jose Spotlight
9 months ago

San Jose language programs could boost school enrollment - San Jose Spotlight

San Jose school districts are using specialized programming like dual language immersion to mitigate declining enrollments.
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