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Parents Sue Little League for Allegedly Ignoring Eligibility Concerns

In the lawsuit, the Chicago-based team's parents allege Little League was aware of potential residency issues, "but chose to ignore and/or deliberately conceal these facts in order to garner higher ratings, publicity, and money."




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Accountability Data

Filled with jargon, "meaningless" tables and missing data, state report cards can be difficult for parents to use, an analysis by the Data Quality Campaign says.




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6 Steps to Data-Driven Literacy Instruction

A district reading intervention specialist explains how she makes sense of a sea of data to foster more proficient readers.




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How's Discipline at Your School? Don't Just Look at Referral and Suspension Data, Get Perception Data

YouthTruth asked 104,000 school staff, students, and their families how they perceive the fairness of discipline at their schools. The results can help start conversations about discipline policy and leading by listening.




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EdWeek's Leaders To Learn From Spotlights 12 Innovative District Leaders

The annual issue, now in its eighth year, highlights the work of district leaders who are deploying new ideas to make a difference for their staff and students.




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Lisboa peg back Zagreb to make their point

Portugal's Lisboa twice came from behind to open UEFA Regions' Cup Group B with a point as Croatian side Zagreb were left to rue missed opportunities in Istanbul.




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Flecha completes Lisboa treble to deny Ingulec

Captain Flecha completed his hat-trick in the 88th minute as – for the second time in as many Group A games – Lisboa repeatedly came from behind to draw.




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Lisboa and Istanbul finish off with a draw

Ramazan Kallıoğlu struck deep into added time for the ten-man hosts, to hand Lisboa a third Group A draw, David Cardoso's goal not enough to earn them victory.




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2018/19 UEFA Regions' Cup qualifying draw

Europe's top competition for amateur players returns for 2018/19 with 39 nations discovering the fate of their eventual representatives in the preliminary and intermediate round draws.




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UEFA Regions' Cup finals line-up set

Teams from the Czech Republic, France, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, Turkey, Poland and Russia are in the finals.




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Politics Watch: Cheers Minister, here’s to not panicking

A SUNDAY shift on The Herald’s Politics Watch tends to begin the same way, with an early trip to buy the papers. Usually it is just myself, a couple of other larks, and the woman who keeps an eye on the self-checkout area. All quiet on the supermarket front.




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Alison Rowat: Not the Messiah, or even an especially naughty boy

AN item for the “there’s always one” file. Only days into the great lockdown and some people are just not coping. Take the holidaymaker – British, of course – who decided she would flout the rules and have a dip at Paradise Park in Tenerife.




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Alison Rowat: Questions everywhere but where are answers we need?

ONE of the few benefits of living in the Unprecedented Era is having the chance to experience life at another time and in a different place.




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Alison Rowat: A dog, a ball, and life after coronavirus

OKAY, the tale that follows is not exactly up there with the yarns spun by those Florentines fleeing the plague in The Decameron, but bear with me. It is hard to be a Ustinov-standard raconteur when that big wide world you took for granted has shrunk to the size of an egg.




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Alison Rowat: Still time for you to do the right thing, Mr President

WHILE watching the daily Downing Street press conferences it is possible to feel a range of emotions. Frustration, for instance, as one inquiry after another goes unanswered, or disappointment at the quality of the questioning.




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Opinion: Alison Rowat: Blistering start for Starmer at virtual Prime Minister's Questions

STRANGE things you never thought would come to pass. Queueing to enter a supermarket. Being thrilled by the sight of the bin lorry arriving. Making your own surgical mask. These days. But the oddest thing of all? Being glad to see politicians.




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Opinion, Alison Rowat: Trust, like patience and the right gear, is running out

ONE trusts the stork’s passage across London was peaceful, its job of delivering Baby Johnson to his delighted parents made easier by the emptiness of the skies. Congratulations and welcome, young man.




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Alison Rowat: Why scandal-hit Professor Neil Ferguson had to go

HELLO and welcome to Step on a Rake, the game show where clever people do dumb things. Previous winners of the show have included Catherine “Second Home” Calderwood, Scotland’s former chief medical officer, and Robert Jenrick, England’s well-travelled Communities Minister.




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Ed. Startups Navigate the Hard Market Realities for Sustaining Success

Following the thrill of launching new businesses, two ed-tech startups are facing the challenges of making smart decisions to attract more customers and grow revenues.




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Billion-Dollar Deal Heats Up Ed-Tech Market

A private equity company plans to acquire Renaissance Learning for $1.1 billion in a deal that will be one of the largest acquisitions ever in educational technology.




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New Coalition Is Launched to Speed Tech. Innovation

A new nonprofit that will convene technology experts from across business, nonprofit, government, and education sectors will begin its big-picture problem solving in the educational arena.




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Film Spotlight: Misbehaviour

Keira Knightley plays a feminist activist who disrupts the Miss World contest in 1970 in the new film Misbehaviour.




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Letters: Assessing the litter-bugs, one by one

LIKE many people with a wee bit of time on their hands at the moment, I enjoy a morning walk along the cycle track between Elderslie and Castlehead, a nice enough stroll, if you like litter that is; and I mean, really like litter.




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Letters: Yet another generation sacrificed on the altar of globalisation

THE Herald has reported (May 6) on another economically and socially “lost generation” of children and young people due to Covid-19.




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Districts Exceeding Fla. Class-Size Lid




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Trump's Budget Eliminates Funding for Teacher Training, Class-Size Reductions

The proposed budget from the Trump administration eliminates the Title II grant program, which pays for professional development and class-size reduction efforts.




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Setting Class-Size Limits

A majority of states have at least one policy that limits the number of students that may be in a general education classroom, according to the Education Commission of the States. Among states that have changed their class-size policies since 2008, all have opted to relax those constraints.




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Citing Class Sizes, Services, Teachers In California's Capital City Walk Out

Hundreds of teachers across the Sacramento Unified school district walked out of their classrooms and onto picket lines last week for the first time in 30 years, staging a one-day strike alleging unfair labor practices by the California district.




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Camley's Cartoon on Saturday, July 27: New PM's spirit of blind optimism

Framed prints of Steven Camley's cartoons are available by calling 0141 302 6210.”




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Camley’s Cartoon: Bernie Sanders, Luss for life, falling education standards and more

This week, our resident cartoonist turned his pen on the Coronavirus outbreak, Bernie Sanders rising popularity in the United States and the battle for an SNP seat at Holyrood.




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Straight Up Conversation: Panorama CEO on Measuring College, Career, and Life Readiness

Rick talks with the CEO of Panorama Education, an ed-tech company whose college- and career-readiness tools are currently used each year in 11,500 schools.




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Transgender Students, Athletics, Bullying: What the Equality Act Would Mean for Schools

Supporters of the bill say it would extend critical civil rights protections to more students. But opponents say it ignores parents' rights in schools and could lead to confusing situations for some children.




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A Trump State of the Union Guest: 6th Grader Joshua Trump, Bullied for His Name

President Donald Trump has invited a 6th-grade student from Wilmington, Del., to sit in first lady Melania Trump's box during Tuesday's annual address to Congress.




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In Battle Against Bullies, Some Schools Target Parents

Looking for new ways to combat kids who bully, some communities are threatening to fine parents with no evidence that the approach is effective.




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Students Who Feel They Belong Are Less Likely to Bully, Study Finds

A study of 900 middle schoolers finds that students who report having a sense of belonging both at home and school are less likely to engage in bullying.




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Disney+ Reaches 28.6 Million Subscribers Since Nov. Launch

Disney's CEO said most of the subscribers to Disney+ came from the US. But going forward, the company expects new subscribers to come from foreign markets as the streaming service expands to more European countries and India this March.




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The Most Watched Shows on Netflix This Week

Wondering if your taste in binging matches the rest of the country? Here's a look at the most-watched shows on Netflix and beyond, according to Reelgood.com.




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Colette Douglas Home: Andy Murray does not need validation of a dusty, cynical establishment

There are times when I wish my family’s life revolved a little less around Andy Murray. Two words, "Andy’s playing", are sufficient reason for outings to be delayed or abandoned; invitations turned down; even holiday dates tweaked.




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Allowing people to be who and what they are, without fear of prejudice, is the hallmark of a civilised society

If you have never given your gender much thought, count yourself lucky. If that tick in the box on almost every form requires no more effort than a flick of the wrist, be aware that for many people gender is not so straightforward.




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Colette Douglas Home: We have become inured to wealth inequalities on an obscene scale

What have we done? That’s what Hawick housewife Carol Martin said when she realised her lottery ticket had scooped £33 million.




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How can we call ourselves civilised if we leave these poor refugee children to starve?

How desperate would you have to be to put your child onto a rubber dinghy and wave them off to the mercy of the world? It beggars belief that people are doing it but they are. Some are parents who can afford only one fare so they buy a way out for their child.




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Uzma Mir-Young: Life got in the way of me being the parent I wanted to be

“I AM an Asian Tiger Mum, for whom education is the only way to success for my children, and excellence in music, sport and ballet is a prerequisite to living any sort of life at all.”




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GOP Lawmaker Revives Push to Create New Tax Break for Home Schooling

Rep. Luke Messer, R-Ind., has introduced legislation to allow money in 529 savings plans to be used for home-schooling expenses, a proposal that was stripped out of a late version of the recent tax-code overhaul.




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Military Bases Provide Support for Home Schoolers

Military bases are providing more support and resources for the growing number of military families who are choosing to home school their children.




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How Homeschooling Is Sometimes Used to Conceal Child Abuse

Most states take a very hands-off approach to regulating home schooling, and some advocates worry that makes it attractive to neglectful and abusive parents.




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VIDEO: An 'Unschooling' Family Trusts Children to Guide Their Own Learning

Rather than adhering to a specific curriculum, families who "unschool" believe learning happens naturally and should be driven by a student's interests. Education Week spent a "school" day with the Matica family to see this decades-old approach to home schooling in action.




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Homeschooling: Requirements, Research, and Who Does It

There are nearly 2 million homeschooled students in the United States, making homeschooling a small, but integral part of the K-12 education ecosystem.





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Homeschooling: Can It Hide Abuse?

A severe case of child abuse and torture is bringing renewed attention to the mostly hands-off approach states take with home schooling.




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With camps shut, families face summer in the great indoors