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Mjölk Architekti aimed to embed Montessori ideals of learning through play and self-determined activity in this nursery extension in Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic.Built in the small town of Jablonec nad Nisou, the project was designed by Prague-based Mjölk Architekti in collaboration with Projektový atelier David.

Brightly coloured volumes and angular forms characterise this nursery in the Czech Republic, which was designed by Czech studio Architektura to echo childhood playfulness.Located in Říčany, a town in the Prague-East District, the Větrník Kindergarten features a gym, garden, classrooms and a playground, spread across coloured blocks that branch out from a central white structure.

Advanced Placement Psychology is the subject of the latest skirmish in the monthslong battle between the state of Florida and the College Board.The board said in a statement released on Thursday afternoon that several Florida school districts had raised concerns about the course, noting that its content may violate new state laws limiting how issues of gender and sexuality are taught.

Before discovering Pleasantville, N.Y., several years ago, Erin Williams lived with her husband and elementary-school-age daughter in a succession of Westchester communities.They bought a house in Ossining, N.Y., but found the commute to Manhattan too time-consuming.And getting around town wasn't any easier.

The Oakland Unified School District has settled a week-long strike with its teachers union a deal that will boost pay a total of $70 million.But as the administration figures out how to pay for those raises, could it also face stiff fines for the time its 34,000 students went without teachers?District officials had no answers early this week, but the experience of another large Northern California school district's lengthy strike last year is sobering: The Sacramento City Unified School District expects to be hit with a hefty $47 million in penalties after a two-week strike left it short of the state's required 180-day instruction time.

On the back of a door in a home in Flint, Mich., there hangs a black Trailmaker backpack that belongs to Jaxon Williams, a third grader at Freeman Elementary.It hasn't been moved for nearly a week.It's officially retired, like a jersey, said his mother, Ladel Lewis, a City Council member.That's because Jaxon and over 2,800 other students across 11 campuses in the Flint Community Schools are subject to a ban on backpacks that began this week after district officials were alarmed by threats to students' safety.

Care and Feeding is Slate's parenting advice column.Dear Care and Feeding, Have a question for Care and Feeding?Submit it here.I am a new mom of 1-year-old twins, "Bella" and "Iris".When I was pregnant, my husband and I decided that we wanted to give our girls names that we liked, as opposed to both of our families' traditions of using family names (think "Dorothy" and "Ethel," which are good names, just not our style).

As San Francisco public school principals turned in their 2023-24 budget proposals to Superintendent Matt Wayne this past Friday, many scrambled to find solutions to cuts at schools that have seen slight enrollment reductions over the last few years.So far, John O'Connell, June Jordan and Cleveland High School are three schools in for cuts of around $200,000 each.

Building success in a digital marketing career can present some challenges for a parent.For example, you can expect to work long hours, meet important deadlines, and manage client expectations.For these reasons and more, you may notice that you have less time to spend with your family.To that end, it's essential to stay organized and on top of tasks so that you can work efficiently to meet expectations while also being present for your family.

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Kairan Quazi will probably need someone to drive him to work at SpaceX.He's only 14.The teen is scheduled to graduate this month from the Santa Clara University School of Engineering before starting a job as a software engineer at the satellite communications and spacecraft manufacturer.

The man who won the record-breaking $2.04-billion Powerball jackpot after buying the prized ticket at an Altadena gas station in November has come forward to collect his winnings.Edwin Castro won the "unbelievable and historic" prize, California Lottery Director Alva Johnson said Tuesday, after the jackpot ballooned for weeks in the fall following repeated drawings without a winner.

A knife-wielding man stabbed several people, including children, in southeastern France on Thursday, the French authorities said.The interior minister, Gerald Darmanin, said on Twitter that the man had injured several people in a park in Annecy, a city of about 130,000 people in southeastern France.

Russia has suffered heavy losses in its assault on Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region, the British Defense Ministry said on Tuesday."Russia's 10th Tank Regiment has likely lost a large proportion of its tanks while attempting to surround Avdiivka from the south," the British Defense Ministry said in its daily intelligence update.

KYIV, Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.Putin visited an art school and a children's center that are part of a project to develop a historical park on the site of an ancient Greek colony, Russian state news agencies said.

Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell, a beloved religious leader who was slain in his Hacienda Heights home last week, will be honored at a Sunday prayer service in Anaheim.Archbishop José H. Gomez will preside over the Orange County service, which will take place at this year's Religious Education Congress, an annual four-day gathering of Catholics sponsored by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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The controversial reshaping of a lauded academic program for young students will be front and center at Tuesday's meeting of the Los Angeles Board of Education.The program, called Primary Promise, was achieving extraordinary results in the estimation of district officials who presented a public progress report about 14 months ago.

A new version of the ABC's in Russia's far east starts with A is for Army, B is for Brotherhood and injects a snappy phrase with every letter, like, Love your Army.A swim meet in the southern city of Magnitogorsk featured adolescents diving into the pool wearing camouflage uniforms, while other competitors slung model Kalashnikov rifles across their backs.

FILE - Migrants are silhouetted as they warm themselves inside a waiting tent to get an appointment at the central registration center for refugees and asylum seekers (LaGeSo) in Berlin, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has invited top officials of the country's 16 states for a migration summit on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 as tension grows over how to find a solution on the growing number of asylum seekers and the lack of housing, missing spaces in schools or kindergartens for them.

The European Union threatened sanctions against Belarus after Russia announced it would store tactical nuclear weapons in the Kremlin-aligned country, which shares a long border with northern Ukraine.Meanwhile, Russia has continued to attack the embattled city of Bakhmut - an effort the Institute for the Study of War warned was futile and potentially harmful to Moscow - as a Ukrainian counteroffensive looms.

The United States said there was no reason to change its nuclear posture after Russia said it has moved 10 nuclear-capable warplanes to Belarus, which shares a long border with northern Ukraine.The State Department said the United States is "committed to the collective defense of the NATO alliance," noting that NATO is a "defensive Alliance which does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to any country."

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media after a summit in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on June 30, 2022.Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday.Dmitry Azarov/AP KYIV, Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to Crimea to mark the ninth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula's annexation from Ukraine on Saturday, the day after the International Criminal Court' issued an arrest warrant for the Russian leader accusing him of war crimes.

Strikes on multiple fronts, including capital Kyiv and the western Lviv province, come hours after ICC's announcement.Widespread Russian attacks have continued in Ukraine following the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's commissioner for children's rights.

TypeScript's type manipulations are powerful tools for transforming and manipulating types.They allow you to create new types, perform conditional type checks, transform union types, and more.This article is inspired by TypeScript's documentation and aims to explain type manipulations in a user-friendly way.

Handwriting has been the hardest thing about sending my children to the local Swedish municipal school in Malmo.My two children's handwriting is worse than that of their 5-year-old English cousins, who already writes in childish joined-up letters, while they at age 9 and 11 still sometimes gets their b's and d's mixed up.

A Florida fifth-grade teacher is under investigation by the state Board of Education after screening a Disney movie for her students.The film in question, Strange World, is a sci-fi story featuring a diverse cast of animated characters, one of whom happens to be gay.A minor subplot of the film refers to this character having a crush on another character of the same sex.

Parents say they are at a loss in dealing with the trauma of their children who should be playing, not grieving.Gaza City, Gaza Toqa al-Dalo cries relentlessly in a state of shock after hearing about the death of her best friend in Israel's first air attack on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.As the 10-year-old got ready for school that morning, she saw her parents crying quietly.

Every generation raises its kids differently.And naturally, with hindsight, people realize that they can improve upon or do a complete 180 on the way they raise future generations.For example, this baby in London, in the 1930s, is being hung from a cage outside an apartment window so it can sunbathe and get fresh air - because it's healthy.

Although many children have returned to school and nursery, not every mum has the help she needs yet.For most of the first year after her daughter was born in early 2022, Katie Szerbin worked from home, managing customer service calls all day, without any kind of childcare.Each time her child began to cry, the 30-year-old mother from New Jersey, US, had to leave the room.

The Florence museum housing Michelangelo's Renaissance masterpiece the David invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign.Florence Mayor Dario Nardella also tweeted an invitation for the principal to visit so he can personally honor her.

ROME - A Florence museum on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to view Michelangelo's "David" in person after the school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has invited top officials of the country's 16 states for a summit Wednesday on the growing number of asylum-seekers and the lack of housing and spaces in schools or kindergartens for them.The federal government and the states have been arguing for months over who gets to pay for the rising costs.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) has signed an anti-trans bill into law that, effective immediately, restricts several rights of trans students and public employees.H.B. 1522 makes it illegal for schools and government entities to require teachers and employees to use trans people's proper pronouns.

Customers of the Four Barrel Coffee on Valencia Street have, for the last several weeks, been welcomed by huge paintings on the wall or, more precisely, large paintings on window glass.They are bold, bright, and colorful, capturing either a scene in a bar, a portrait of a musician, or a street view of San Francisco.

I might be biased, but I truly believe most Latine parents give the best life lessons.For instance, I always knew I could go to my mom for things I was having issues with and she would tell me what she thought in a caring yet brutally honest kind of way.And since a lot of Latine parents love to give advice to their children, I asked the BuzzFeed Community: What is the greatest life lesson you have learned from them and why has it impacted you so much?

Growing up in L.A., Alake Shilling was aquiet and shy kid obsessed with drawing.She doodled on whatever surface she could find - in notebooks, sketchbooks, on her desk.She immersed herself for hours, drawing comics or making dioramas from discarded 7-Eleven Slurpee cups, filled with fake bugs or aliens.

In the futile and hopeless hours of familiar gridlock after the most recent mass shooting in Nashville, the social media meme war that serves as proxy for our political process launched again into overdrive.Some themes were familiar: Republicans love guns more than they love children; the party that purports to revere life seems unwilling to do anything to stop mass murder.

Visitors flocked to see Michelangelo's David sculpture in Florence on Tuesday, following an uproar over a Florida school's decision to force the resignation of the principal over complaints about a lesson featuring the Renaissance masterpiece.Tourists, many of them Americans on spring break or studying abroad, posed for selfies in front of the giant marble statue, which features the Biblical David, naked with a sling over his shoulder and a rock in his hand, ready for battle with Goliath.

Visitors stand in front of Michelangelo's David statue in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy, on Tuesday.A Florida school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.Alessandra Tarantino/AP FLORENCE, Italy Visitors flocked to see Michelangelo's David sculpture in Florence on Tuesday, following an uproar over a Florida school's decision to force the resignation of the principal over complaints about a lesson featuring the Renaissance masterpiece.

Disney's anti-racism film Ruby Bridges is the subject of a complaint brought by a Florida parent who claims the movie is not appropriate for second-graders, because it might teach them that white people hate Black people.The film, which tells the story of a six-year-old girl who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s, has been a staple of school curriculums during Black History Month in the state's Tampa-area county of Pinellas.

FLORIDA, USA A Florence museum on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to view Michelangelo's David in person after the school principal was forced to resign following parental complaints that an image of the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.

Florence Mayor Dario Naardella has invited parents, students and a teacher fired from the Tallahassee Classical School in Florida to come to Italy and judge firsthand whether Michelangelo Buonarroti's 1504 sculpture of the Old Testament hero David is in fact pornography.The invitation was extended after the school's principal, Hope Carrasquilla, was forced to resign when parents vociferously complained about images of the five-meter (17 foot) tall marble sculpture being shown to sixth graders as part of a Renaissance art history course.

Wallkill, N.Y., isn't hip, and it barely has a downtown but homes there often cost less and come with more land than those in higher-profile Hudson Valley communities.After a two-year search, Vanessa Stanton found in this Ulster County hamlet not to be confused with the larger town of Wallkill in Orange County, about 15 miles southwest what she had been unable to find in places like Hudson and Rhinebeck: a four-bedroom house with a sleek kitchen and a pool on more than five acres.

New Jersey will expand a high school course in African American Studies to 25 schools across the state, Gov. Philip D. Murphy announced this week, a move that inserted the state into an escalating culture-war battle over the way schools teach about race and racism.The New Jersey governor's announcement followed a decision by the Florida education department to ban the course in that state's high schools after pressure from Gov. Ron DeSantis.

In 1960, visionary physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that an advanced alien civilization would someday quit fooling around with kindergarten-level stuff like wind turbines and nuclear reactors and finally go big, completely enclosing their home star to capture as much solar energy as they possibly could.

A union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and other support staff has started a three-day strike with support from the district's teachers, effectively stopping classes for more than a half million students in the nation's second-largest school system.

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.

Arkansas became the fourth state to ban transgender students from using the bathroom that matches their gender identity on Tuesday after Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the bill into law.The new legislation will prohibit students at charter and public schools from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade from using multiple-occupancy bathrooms that differ from their assigned sex at birth.

By now, you've read a lot about generative AI technologies such as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, which translate text input into images in seconds.If you're anything like me, you immediately wondered how you could use that technology to slap your face onto the Mona Lisa or Captain America.After all, who doesn't want to be America's ass?

A damaged restaurant is seen after Russian shelling hit in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, March 18, 2023.(AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)KYIV, Ukraine - Widespread Russian attacks continued in Ukraine following the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's commissioner for children's rights.

Many parents would agree that helping their child learn to read is one of the most important developmental milestones in a young child's life.However, knowing when and how to introduce your child to learn how to read comes with its unique set of challenges.How do I find the best books for beginning readers?

While many of us will soon be out there making like a human rototiller turning the vegetable beds in the name of what we were taught soil preparation required Charles Dowding takes a different tack.With a bow rake or an oscillating hoe in hand, he kicks off the new season with a quick pass over each bed, tickling the soil surface, he said, rather than upending it, to disturb any weeds seeds that might be germinating.

Republican lawmakers in Florida are proposing bills that will prevent staff from addressing students with pronouns other than the ones they were assigned at birth.The bills would also make it the policy of state schools that sex is an immutable biological trait.Legislators introduced six bills that seek to alter the type of education students receive before the start of the Sunshine State's legislative session in early March.

A Russian missile struck an apartment building in the center of Kramatorsk on Tuesday, killing at least one person and wounding seven others in one of Ukraine's major city strongholds in its eastern Donetsk region as it fights against Moscow's invasion, officials said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video showing gaping holes in the facade of the low-rise building that bore the brunt of the strike.

YEREVAN, Armenia It would be easy to mistake Tuf for a trendy club somewhere in Russia.A meditative indie band played, a family of Muscovites sold homemade cosmetics and a tattoo artist from St. Petersburg drew a seal on someone's arm.But Tuf is in the capital of Armenia.It was born of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent exodus of Russians, many of whom are still in shock.

Parents, residents, and local business leaders can now apply as voting movers and shakers for their Community Education Council and Citywide Education Council.Applications are still open - but not for much longer - for four positions on both councils: Parent Member (elected), Borough President Appointee, Public Advocate Appointee, and Student Member (non-voting).

Photo: Shutterstock Another federal judge appointed by Donald Trump has rejected a challenge to Florida's Don't Say Gay law.The law, passed last year, bans discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in Kindergarten through third grade and restricts such discussions in older grades.The law has already been used to curtail discussions about LGBTQ+ people and leave students without help if they're being bullied because of their identities.

Families with young children have a variety of early learning program options in Santa Clara County.Enrollment for next school year is already underway.Families who are interested in enrolling their child in preschool, transitional kindergarten (TK) or kindergarten can do so each year starting as early as December in some of Santa Clara County's school districts.

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, who's likely to launch a bid for president this spring, got a less than warm reception from Mayor Eric Adams during his visit to the five boroughs on Monday.

A Florida English teacher who is pushing a ban on nearly 150 books from school libraries has a history of making racist and anti-LGBTQ+ statements, according to former students.And she just got an innocuous book on gay penguins - And Tango Makes Three - banned from county schools for "indoctrination."
Vickie Baggett, a high school English teacher at Northview High School in Escambia County, Florida, has submitted 148 of the 150 book challenges being reviewed by the Escambia School District this year.

Cróga, the baby loggerhead turtle who washed up on a beach in northwest Ireland after a months-long, 4,000-mile journey that nearly killed her.(Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium)A family strolling on a beach in Ireland earlier this month spotted a seafarer that had washed up on the rocks.Her body was battered.

My 6-year-old daughter loves to dance, but when she saw New York City Ballet's Nutcracker for the first time this winter, the talk afterward wasn't about the performers, the elaborate staging or the special effects.Instead, she spoke adoringly of the child who happened to be seated next to her, a young fellow of similar age.

Trish BendixReporting on culture Trish BendixReporting on culture Matt Slocum/Associated Press This week, the hosts riffed on Rihanna's Super Bowl halftime show, President Biden's clean bill of health, former Gov. Nikki Haley's presidential run and the U.S. government shooting down unidentified objects across North America.

Joseph Zucchero, a co-founder of the popular sandwich shop that inspired the acclaimed FX restaurant drama The Bear, and that was where much of the series was filmed, died on March 1 in Chicago.He was 69.His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his son, Christopher, an owner of Mr. Beef, the family's restaurant in Chicago's River North neighborhood.

In January 2022, a woman walks toward what was the only crossing between the rest of Ukraine and the northernmost occupied territory, manned by guards on both sides who check documents in Stanytsia Luhanska, in eastern Ukraine.Claire Harbage/NPR Last January, I visited Ukraine for the first time before the Russian invasion and I ended up spending over half of the year there.

In 1967, my mother, Jill Norris, who has died aged 96, set up Enfield Toy Library, in north London the first of its kind in the UK to provide local children with learning disabilities access to a wide range of educational toys.At the time she had three children under the age of five, two of whom had disabilities.

Students releasing salmon into the lake on the Salmon Field Trip.Jennifer Hodges Kenny Lake School in Copper Center, Alaska, is small, with about 60 students from kindergarten to high school seniors.It's even smaller in winter when some parents homeschool their children because of the long drives and slick roads.

AUSTIN, Texas Charter school students serenaded Texas lawmakers on Monday afternoon.More than 100 International Leadership of Texas (ILTexas) students showed off their musical talents by singing in the Texas State Capitol's rotunda.The students sang "God Bless America" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in honor of Black History Month.

A Catholic school teacher says the local archdiocese fired her after seeing a photo of her kissing her same-sex partner.Maggie Barton wanted to share values from her religious upbringing with future generations, so she became a technology and media teacher at the All Souls Catholic School in Englewood, Colorado.

The Montessori Family School has been part of the Berkeley community since 1987.Courtesy: Montessori Family School Berkeley's Montessori Family School will close its preschool on Scenic Avenue after 36 years in the community.The last day for students will be June 9.The school has been a part of the Berkeley community since 1987, providing a child-centered Montessori education to thousands of children.

ChatGPT is a conversational AI that is currently taking the digital landscape by storm.But who owns ChatGPT?Let's find out...Whenever something new or innovative happens, humans like to know its origin.We like to know the people and the faces behind things.This is why people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are so well known and revered.