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Great Hearts Academies enrollment for online K-8 school opens Monday
(Great Hearts Academies photo) PHOENIX — Great Hearts Academies, an Arizona-based network of nonprofit public charter schools, announced Wednesday that its online school for kindergartners through eighth graders will launch in the fall. Great Hearts Online is open to all Arizona students and does not charge tuition. Enrollment begins Monday. The education system will offer its classical liberal arts curriculum with advanced math and science and a focus on arts and foreign language in a virtual setting for K-8 graders. “The past year has made clear the need for high quality online academic programs in K-12,” Great Hearts America CEO Jay Heiler said in a press release. “The challenge here…
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Fort Bend ISD closes, opens schools amid COVID-19 pandemic
MISSOURI CITY, Texas – This week, President Biden plans to address getting kids back in the classroom as early as Wednesday. This comes as Fort Bend ISD once again is closing some schools and opening others. The district also sent an email to parents on Friday saying if their student is falling behind in their studies and grades, they will require them to come and learn face-to-face. Below is a list of FBISD schools and their plans: School pivoting to online on Tuesday, February 9 Pecan Grove Elementary (2/8-2/19, Students return on 2/22) School pivoting to online on Monday, February 8 Sienna Crossing Elementary (2/8-2/15, Students return on 2/16) Townewest…
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Kate Middleton opens up on homeschooling struggle with George and Charlotte | Royal | News
The mother-of-three made the comments during a series of video calls on Tuesday with teachers and staff from Ribbon Academy, County Durham. The school has been holding classes for the children of key workers as well as supporting home learning. Kate, who is marking Children’s Mental Health Week, told headteacher Ashleigh Sheridan: “Schools are doing an amazing job, as parents you really recognise what a vital role you do play for us on a day to day basis – having remote learning as well.” Prince William’s wife also agreed with teacher Louise Tweedie, who said the coronavirus pandemic will encourage schools to prioritise mental health. Kate, who has previously spoken…
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Kate Middleton opens up on the challenges of homeschooling her kids
Kate Middleton has spilled the beans on how she’s handled homeschooling her and Prince William’s three children during the UK’s coronavirus lockdowns. The Duchess of Cambridge opened up during a video call with three parents whose children attend Roe Green Junior School in Brent, UK. Kate Middleton on a video call. (Kensington Palace) Having been at home with her own children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis for each of the lockdowns in the UK, Kate could relate to the parents’ experiences with remote learning. “I know how challenging it is juggling work, home life, school life and everything else that you as parents are doing, so really well…
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Compelling evidence of neutrino process opens physics possibilities
IMAGE: SCGSR Awardee Jacob Zettlemoyer, Indiana University Bloomington, led data analysis and worked with ORNL’s Mike Febbraro on coatings, shown under blue light, to shift argon light to visible wavelengths to… view more Credit: Rex Tayloe/Indiana University The COHERENT particle physics experiment at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has firmly established the existence of a new kind of neutrino interaction. Because neutrinos are electrically neutral and interact only weakly with matter, the quest to observe this interaction drove advances in detector technology and has added new information to theories aiming to explain mysteries of the cosmos. “The neutrino is thought to be at the heart of many open…
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UArizona opens vaccination site, focusing on education workers
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The University of Arizona is home to a new vaccination site in Pima County Tuesday, with 1,000 teachers already scheduled to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The drive-up vaccination center will be located on University Avenue South, between Campbell and Cherry Avenues, and will focus on a specific subpopulation of Phase 1B of the county’s vaccination plan — Education and child care providers. In a press release Friday, the university says it’s already scheduled 132 K-12 teachers to receive their first doses of the vaccine at the site every day this week. On Wednesday and Thursday, 42 UArizona staff members will also be…
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Erasmus+ grant opens doors | Mirage News
What is it like to participate in the Erasmus+ grant programme as a Master’s student from Ukraine? Yevhenii Radchenko did an eight-month internship at Leiden University in 2018. Soon after, he returned as a PhD candidate. ‘You have little to lose, but a lot to gain.’ ‘Make sure you have a good raincoat!’ That is the first tip Yevhenii Radchenko (24) gives to students who want to come to the Netherlands as an exchange student, just like him. In September 2018, he travelled from Ukraine to Leiden University, where he did an eight-month internship at the research group of Mario van der Stelt, Professor of Molecular Physiology. ‘I designed and…
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