Blue Ribbon and Snowflake owner Premier Foods is on the prowl for acquisitions, including the likes of JSE-listed food producers like Remgro-controlled RCL Foods, Libstar and RFG, if they ever become available.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Elon Musk to a role aimed at creating a more efficient government, handing even more influence to the world's richest man who donated millions of dollars to helping Trump get elected.

The Government Employees' Pension Fund delivered a return of 4.9% on investments for its members in the year to end-March.

One of the giants of the literacy world is grappling with the recent push for the "science of reading"—and responding to critics who say her early reading program doesn't align to evidence-based practice.

A new report from Student Achievement Partners claims that the popular reading program from literacy giant Lucy Calkins doesn't align to evidence-based practice. The review is the first in a new series that will evaluate reading programs against the scientific research base.

At a roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C., leaders advocated for states to play a stronger role in championing science-backed instruction and translating research into practice, focusing on levers like teacher training, certification, and system-wide professional learning.

Children adapt their attitudes toward reading to conform to their classmates' perceived gender stereotypes, in ways that put boys at a disadvantage, according to a new study in the journal Child Development.

The National Education Policy Center and Education Deans for Justice and Equity released a joint statement on Thursday, claiming that "there is no settled science of reading."

A recent document signals a major change in instructional theory from the Reading Workshop creator, who previously pushed back on "phonics-centric people."

Finding antivirals to reduce coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) morbidity and mortality has been challenging. Large randomized clinical trials that aimed to test four repurposed drugs, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir-ritonavir, interferon beta 1a, and remdesivir, have shown that these compounds lack an impact on the COVID-19 course. Although the phase III COVID-19 vaccine trial results are encouraging, the search for effective COVID-19 therapeutics should not stop. Recently, plitidepsin (aplidin) demonstrated highly effective preclinical activity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Its antiviral activity was 27.5-fold more potent than that of remdesivir (K. M. White, R. Rosales, S. Yildiz, T. Kehrer, et al., Science, 2021, https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/22/science.abf4058). Plitidepsin, a repurposed drug developed for the treatment of multiple myeloma, targets the host translation cofactor eEF1A. Plitidepsin has shown efficacy in animal models and phase I/II human trials. Although plitidepsin is administered intravenously and its toxicity profile remains to be fully characterized, this compound may be a promising alternative COVID-19 therapeutic.

French pastor believes that today a new generation in France is rising up with passion to serve God.

Six OMers spent two weeks in the south of France sharing God's love with children as part of a large music festival.

A 20-member church and a volunteer pastor seek long-term help for sharing the gospel with the 24,000 people in their town.

An OM outreach participant shares the gospel with another group of hikers during a walk down a mountain in France.

Martin and Petro De Lange start ministry to Turks in France.

During OM France’s last LinkUp, an interdenominational event for all teens and young adults in the Nantes region, OMers focused on the theme of sexuality.

Ashley, 19, serving with OM France, shares how God led her to OM and about the ministry she’s been involved in so far.

A worker shares the story of one girl who recently took the courageous step to leave her life of prostitution for the freedom Christ offers.

During her three months mission trip to Paris, Madeline realised how precious it is to be a living testimony for the homeless.

This New Year, OM France will be part of a Christian youth festival, “Mad in France,” delivering a 4D experience of world mission.

In the 1980s, OM organised large summer campaigns with the huge task of covering every town and village in France with Christian literature.

OM France marks OM’s 60th anniversary, inviting International Director, Lawrence Tong, to grace this special occasion.

“It was a long, green boat, sailing gently along the river,” recalled Ana Barros (Portugal), as she described her dream to her mum. This happened before she had even seen a picture of OM's Riverboat.

OMer Martin sees Muslims coming to Christ as he ministers to Turkish speakers in France.

"At the end of the class, over tea and mini-cakes, we take time to get to know them, to help them with administrative tasks or to discuss Bible stories," shares Louise.

Six in 10 programs worry they will have to shut down permanently, a survey finds—and that was before so many districts announced fall remote-learning plans.

Second grade teacher Kitten Vaa shares how her students develop argumentation skills with the use of scientific modeling.

In Queens, N.Y., Maria Katsanos' 3rd grade class conducts scientific explanations through the "KLEWS" strategy—identifying what students already know, what they're going to learn, the evidence, their wonderings, and scientific words and concepts.

Elizabeth Iwaszewicz, a kindergarten teacher at Lafayette Elementary School in San Francisco, uses music to help students focus their attention as they line up. She uses Jeopardy!'s theme song to make the routine like a quick and timed game.

Kaia Tomokiyo, a kindergarten teacher from Southern Heights Elementary in Seattle and Fallon King, a 1st and 2nd grade teacher from Cedarhurst Elementary in Burien, Wash., share how they engage younger students in scientific modeling through observation and discussion.

Thinking logs incorporate both literacy and math skills by asking students to write complete sentences explaining how they solved an equation and arrived at a solution.

Jeanne Wright creatively introduces her 1st grade students to a variety of strategies for solving addition problems.

A 5th grade teacher uses fractions to promote both language and math skills in her dual-language classroom.

A simple letter home to parents explaining a Texas 2nd grade teacher's no-homework policy has gone viral and is leading to more discussion about what's appropriate for elementary school students.

This elementary routine encourages students to make sense of a math problem by listing what they both notice and wonder about the given information.

Elementary math specialist Kristin Gray helps her 2nd graders understand different subtraction strategies by talking through their thought processes.

Second grade teacher Tita Ugalde explains how giving 'brain breaks' lets her students shake out their extra energy and refuel in between lessons.

A former dancer uses her choreography skills to plan her students' movement through the classroom.

See how one preschool teacher helps her students learn how to count collections of objects.

A math specialist shares how she uses dots to allow students to see the connections between mathematical operations, like addition and multiplication.

"Colorblind" teaching isn’t going to cut it, writes Vanderbilt University’s H. Richard Milner IV.

In this week's episode of SA Money Report we examine how racial discrimination impacts the property market and interrupts economic growth.

In this week's episode of SA Money Report, we delve into Eskom's latest plunge into darkness.

In this week's episode of SA Money Report, we explore government's plans to allow private operators to use Transnet’s rail network, which is expected to instantly move some 58 million tons of cargo off South Africa’s battered roads.

In this week's episode of SA Money Report, Fin24s sustainability expert Lameez Omarjee provides a seismic blast of information, helping us to understand what's Shell's plans are for waters off the Eastern Cape, and why people are so furious about it.

In this week's episode of SA Money Report, Fin24 investigative reporter Jan Cronje delves into Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's curious investigation of the country's push for more renewable energy.

This week, SA Money Report drills down into the 'game changing' oil find off the coast of Namibia, and how this factors into the recent court battles over seismic blasting on the SA West Coast.

This week, SA Money Report unpacks how a series of emails by former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste is an integral part of proving a case against one of his allies in the UK