WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest ...
The aquarium noted, “We didn't know the cause [of the fish feeling unwell] ... but one of the staff members said, ‘Maybe he's lonely without the visitors?’ " Kimberlee Speakman is a digital ...
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To help uplift the atmosphere at the home games of the Northern Cape’s Griquas rugby team, try-outs to become part of the Griqua Diamonds cheerleaders are taking place in Kimberley. Coach Bridgitte ...
Among other goals, the plan calls for half the district’s third-graders to score on grade level in reading and math by 2029. About a third of all Fort Worth ISD third-graders met grade level in ...
An aquarium in Japan is using cardboard cutouts of visitors to cheer up its lonely resident sunfish, who stopped eating after the building closed to real-life visitors. Kaikyokan Aquarium in ...
How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium when they noticed their sunfish ...
Eagle’s library board has voted to take down the library’s community bulletin board, a move that followed a controversy at the nearby Nampa Public Library surrounding a poster advertising a ...
Mr. President, in the first half of your second term, you will have a unique opportunity to make the federal government more efficient and reduce the size and spending of its executive agencies. One ...
About one in two British Columbians -- 54 per cent -- say they plan to cut back on their spending in 2025, according to a new survey. The figure appears in a new report from TD Bank Group tracking ...
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