While nearly every National Spelling Bee champion over the past 15 years has worked with a coach, the 32-year-old Remer is the country's only full-time tutor for elite spellers. Most coaches are former spellers who are still in college or even high school.
Brian Lindstrom died on Friday, May 15, 2026 at the age of 65 after a brief battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare, progressive neurological disorder. ArtsWatch's Brian Libby wrote an eloquent tribute to one Portland's most respected filmmakers. Read "In memoriam: Filmmaker Brian Lindstrom" here.
Blake Lusty grew up sure of two things: He wanted to serve his country in the Navy, and he would always fight for what he believed in. A late-stage cancer diagnosis at age 20 only steeled his resolve. The first in his family to pursue a college education, Lusty was raised by his mother in St. Petersburg, Florida.
There's a chart doing the rounds on social media, ranking philosophers by how punk they are. Hobbes and Heidegger, it says, are basically a cop; while for Dionysus the Renegade, Marx and Parmenide, it declares: They're not punk, punk is them. I have no way of knowing how true this is, or whether Zizek belongs so close to Engels, for example. To memorise this list would be beyond useless, like retaining the instructions for a plane you have neither licence for nor any reasonable prospect of flying.
Located in the heart of the country's capital, El Salvador's BINAES library stands tall as a monument to the love of knowledge, literature, and technology-accessible to the public 24 hours a day, for free. Positioned directly in front of and carefully aligned with the Catedral Metropolitana de San Salvador, BINAES is also surrounded by the Palacio Nacional de El Salvador (to its left/side) and the Jardín Centroamérica, all symbols and reminders of a dream.
The 2025-26 high school sports season has required Armando Fernandez to multitask at an extraordinary level. He has served as head coach at Sotomayor for boys' basketball and volleyball, and is interim head coach for baseball. He also was head coach for Franklin's flag football team. Each team has won playoff games this season.
The board said the cuts are part of its attempts to modernize the number of central administration staff to ensure its resources remain in schools and classrooms. "These changes are part of the TDSB's broader efforts to protect classroom learning, support student achievement and restore long-term financial sustainability," the statement reads.
The findings show that the younger someone is when they become a parent, the more likely they are to experience long-term challenges, including not finishing high school, reporting poorer health, and having lower income across the lifespan. These patterns were similar for teen and young fathers and teen and young mothers.
The inquiry panel found that the teacher's relationship with the former student constituted professional misconduct, as it began during the student's Leaving Certificate exams.
I was raised in a very simple and humble family. My father was a military serviceman and my mother was a teacher. Discipline and education were part of daily life. There was structure at home. There was respect for learning. That environment shaped how I approach work today.
The new schools aim to increase seating in neighborhoods with schools that have historically had overcrowded classrooms, providing specialized instruction and support for students with significant challenges.
The best qualified person should be admitted or hired. This is based on the principle that admission and hiring should be based on earning the opportunity and this is fairly and justly based on whether an individual merits the admission or job.
"We're feeling concerned about the program going away because of not only what it offers the graduates, but also what the graduates offer the community," said Edith Guillen-Nueve, the program's associate director.
"I think what our study is useful in suggesting is, a lot of times, easy solutions seem like they might work really well," said E. Jason Baron, an assistant professor of economics at Duke University and one of the paper's authors. But "it's hard to move outcomes like test scores."
The Federal Reserve's 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances showed median net worth surged 37% between the 2019 and 2022 surveys, the largest jump in the survey's modern history.
My children are descended from Canadians on their father's side, and I didn't waste any time getting their citizenship applications submitted. I want my children to have more options to follow their dreams.
