- California Teacher Couple Quits Over 'Woke Lies', Launches Anti-Woke Online School In the USA, a teacher couple is battling against alleged "woke lies" at public schools. They are therefore now teaching students online. 04/18/2024 - 6:37 pm | View Link
Amid FAFSA Mistakes and Delays, Universities Struggle to Help Students California college and university aid and admissions officers have been trying to get students the correct information as FAFSA delays and mistakes wreak havoc on the higher education system. 04/17/2024 - 10:08 am | View Link
Justices divided over Jan. 6 participant’s call to throw out obstruction charge The justices were divided on Tuesday over Joseph Fischer’s argument that the law he was charged with violating when he entered the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks, which bars obstruction ... 04/16/2024 - 5:34 am | View Link
California expands financial aid eligibility for incoming UC, CSU students amid FAFSA uncertainty In response to technical issues with the FAFSA, the California Student Aid Commission is granting mixed-status students access to an aid program typically reserved for undocumented students. 04/15/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
A Path To Value In Higher Education A new report from Strada Education Foundation identifies strategies and metrics that can redefine what success looks like for states and colleges, with a focus on value. 04/12/2024 - 5:02 am | View Link
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
8212; College football is ready to put the signs away.
Following a sign-stealing scandal that rocked the sport and hung over Michigan’s championship run in 2023, the NCAA’s football oversight committee approved Friday the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season.
The football rules committee last month made a recommendation to allow — but not require — teams at the highest tier of Division I to use radio technology similar to what NFL teams use.
Only one player for each team will be permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.