This school reopened quickly after COVID. Kids’ reading was still behind
Exiting from the pandemic, the assumption might be students who returned quickly to in-person learning might be the least scathed academically.
Day: June 10, 2023
An interview with Gary Gensler amid the SEC’s Binance and Coinbase lawsuits, which have existential stakes for the companies and could define Gensler’s legacy (Wall Street Journal)
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An interview with Gary Gensler amid the SEC’s Binance and Coinbase lawsuits, which have existential stakes for the companies and could define Gensler’s legacy — Agency chair focuses enforcement power on exchange…
‘Magical’ wildlife-rich rainforest being planted in Devon
Thirty-hectare site above Dart valley will include lichens and ferns and could take a century to reach maturityA temperate rainforest, a magical, wildlife-rich place of mosses, lichens and ferns, is being planted on the slopes above a West Country rive…
Government ‘fanning culture war’ over free speech, says UK’s first LGBTQ+ history professor
Issue blown out of proportion, says Matt Cook, after appointment of ‘free speech tsar’ for higher educationOxford University’s new professor of LGBTQ+ history has accused the government of “fanning a culture war” over freedom of speech, insisting it is…
‘Help me’: South Carolina woman shops passenger to police with silent message
Driver of Jeep stopped for running red light helps police jail man – her own passenger – suspected of attempted murder and kidnapBy mouthing the words “help me” to an officer who had pulled her over for a traffic stop, a woman in South Carolina helped …
Nationwide’s £100 payouts labelled ‘unfair’ by some customers
Longstanding members angry at being excluded from £340m cash giveaway, which starts next weekA £340m cash giveaway kicks off next week when one-off payments of £100 apiece will start appearing in the bank accounts of 3.4 million Nationwide building soc…
Winston Churchill’s grandson donated nearly £5,000 to Liberal Democrats
Ex-Serco chief Rupert Soames says financial support was for ‘friend’ and prospective MP Angus MacDonaldRupert Soames, the grandson of the Conservative wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, has donated nearly £5,000 to a prospective Liberal Demo…
Ministers warned England set to miss wildlife and biodiversity targets
Exclusive: Natural England chair Tony Juniper says government must work quickly to reconcile farming and natureEngland will not meet its biodiversity targets at current rates, the chair of Natural England has said, as he accused ministers of moving to…
British girl, three, stabbed in France knife attack ‘able to leave hospital in coming days’
A three-year-old British girl who was stabbed in a knife attack in the French Alps will be able to leave hospital in the coming days, prosecutors have said.
A nuclear disaster, child abductions, a massacre: Russia’s sick crimes against humanity
Russian history is peppered with a long line of atrocities and crimes against humanity, many of which the country initially attempted to cover up.