Actor Leonardo DiCaprio turns 50 and actor Calista Flockhart turns 60, among the famous birthdays for Nov. 11.

Actor Anne Hathaway turns 42 and actor Raffey Cassidy turns 23, among the famous birthdays for Nov. 12.

The fourth film in the "Bridget Jones" British rom-com series is set to premiere in the United States on Peacock Feb. 13.

Actor/TV personality Whoopi Goldberg turns 69 and singer Julia Michaels turns 30, among the famous birthdays for Nov. 13.

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison for stealing classified information and sharing it online.

An explosion at a food-coloring factory in Louisville, Ky., hospitalized at least 11, including two in critical condition, on Tuesday afternoon.

The U.S. Army has awarded a $435 million contract for Repkon USA to build the nation's only TNT production facility in a rural community in Graham, Ky.

On Nov. 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal district court's ruling in Browder v. Gayle (1956) that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional.

A new trio of Chinese astronauts reached the Tiangong space station on Wednesday, starting a handover from the current crew already on the orbiting laboratory.

SpaceX successfully launched Wednesday a new batch of Starlink satellites into orbit to further its mission to expand Internet access to the global population in now more than 200 space missions.

A robot powered by artificial intelligence created an abstract portrait of Alan Turing that could sell for an estimated $180,000.

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth early Monday after six months in space as part of its Shenzhou-18 mission at its orbiting space station.

The most common ADHD symptoms in adults are often different to those in children.

You might be seconds away from regaining your focus with this scientifically backed method.

Many people overthink persuasion, when it is the most natural approaches that work best.

We're stuck in a bad news bubble, says Angus Hervey, founder of Fix the News, an independent publication that reports stories of global progress. He shares some of the compelling stories too often left out of our daily news — from a decline in AIDS deaths to decreased deforestation in the Amazon to more effective school feeding programs and greater acceptance of LGBTQ people in many countries. (This conversation with TED's Whitney Pennington Rodgers was recorded on September 5, 2024.)

Here's a wild stat: nearly one-third of the world's food production goes to waste each year, a major contributor to the climate crisis. Farmer and UN climate champion Gonzalo Muñoz sheds light on the international negotiations aimed at turning the food system into a climate solution, rather than part of the problem — and shows the progress already underway.

Call for papers: SJDM, San Francisco, Nov 17-20, 2023. Submission deadline June 22, 2023

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President Donald Trumps list of priorities for his second term includes just two bullet points related to K-12 education.

State leadership is on the ballot in dozens of states as they grapple with the pandemic's impact on schools, the economy, and their relationship to federal officials.

The rapid shift to tech-driven, remote learning this spring has infused more technology into K-12 education, but AI tools still remain on the fringe.

The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and other funders are supporting Rhode Island's efforts to define and research personalized learning in traditional public schools.

Principals and superintendents are caught between politicians’ demands, an anxious public, and experts’ contrary advice about the path forward during the pandemic. The unspoken message: You’re on your own.

All districts in Wyoming will be required to provide K-12 computer science instruction, and Idaho high schools will offer at least one high school CS course.

Governors in several natural resource-dependent states said recently they will have to continue to cut public education funding because prices for oil and coal have not rebounded.

The mix of hybrid learning approaches is dizzying, but schools are learning valuable lessons about what is worth replicating.

Schools are putting in place or considering measures such as extending holiday breaks or shifting back to full-time remote learning.

Researchers interviewed scores of principals in 19 states on how they’ve coped and the lessons they’re taking away from the pandemic’s disruption.

Schools and staff confront a welter of employment laws and regulations when it comes to on-site work under the pandemic.

The political landscape for updating school finance systems won’t be any easier in the 2020 legislative season, despite a surging economy, state flexibility under ESSA, and single-party control in many states.

The Maryland State Department of Education "inappropriately stored" personal information of 1.4 million students and more than 230,000 teachers, leaving them vulnerable to potential bad actors, according to an audit published earlier this month.

While most teachers have online access at home, internet service for many educators in rural areas is spotty, expensive, or nonexistent.

The political landscape for updating school finance systems won’t be any easier in the 2020 legislative season, despite a surging economy, state flexibility under ESSA, and single-party control in many states.

Even with remote learning, there are steps schools can take to reach stressed-out students without pathologizing them.

Just because a rural school system has internet doesn’t mean everyone can afford it. That’s why James Barrett delivers paper work packets, along with meals, to his students during the COVID-19 crisis.

A $12.2 million dollar grant from the state Department of Public Instruction will go to a program based at North Carolina State University to provide additional training literacy training to teachers in 16 high-needs districts across the state.

Principals and superintendents are caught between politicians’ demands, an anxious public, and experts’ contrary advice about the path forward during the pandemic. The unspoken message: You’re on your own.

The governors of Oklahoma and South Carolina have directed significant portions of their states' federal education relief aid to fund private school scholarships.