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A decade ago San Francisco banned 8th grade algebra in an attempt to improve math outcomes for students of color. The Wall Street Journal reports: A study by Stanford University researchers released in March 2023 found that San Francisco’s policy largely failed in its equity goals, with the proportion of Black and Latino students enrolling ...continue reading "San Francisco cries uncle in the algebra wars"

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), along with U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-MN), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), today reintroduced the Proprietary Education Oversight Task Force Act, legislation that will establish an interagency committee tasked with improving coordination of federal oversight of for-profit colleges to ensure that students are not scammed out of an education and into a mountain of debt. The bill would require the committee to publish an annual report, detailing enforcement actions taken against for-profit colleges across federal agencies. It also would require the committee to publish a For-Profit College Warning List for potential students to help them make informed decisions about their options for post-secondary education. “Predatory for-profit colleges rake in billions in federal student aid rather than to provide a quality education to students, who are often drowning in debt with

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IBM has given managers an ultimatum: Come into the office or leave.

Cancer is a common cause of death in dogs, but the likelihood of your canine developing the disease could be connected to their breed, according to new research. 

Smoke was visible across the region, and the flames burned for hours.

An inmate escaped from the St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center around 5:30 p.m. on February 3.

A 17-year-old boy escaped shortly before 6 p.m. from the Juvenile Detention Center at 3847 Enright Avenue.

Columnist Bill McClellan writes: It would be easier for Bell if he could show his progressive bonafides, and what better way than freeing an unjustly convicted Black man from prison?

Drawn from the rich collection of the National Building Arts Center (NBAC), Urban Archaeology brings together salvaged architectural elements from landmark buildings, residential homes and neighborhood institutions built in St. […]

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