News School news Tech giant Apple wielding ‘unprecedented’ influence on teacher expertise: study Published July 20, 2022 Tech goliath Apple has manoeuvred itself to exert “unprecedented global influence” on teacher professional learning, qualifications and classroom practice without having publicly…

Saturday, July 9, 2022 After listening to myself interviewed by Martin Feld on Really Specific Stories I started thinking about the strange mixture of interests I have. For fun, I thought I’d grab the main categories and represent them in graphical form. Basketball is predominantly represented by…

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Even as we watch the reservoirs and lakes of the West go dry, we keep watering our lawns, soaking our golf courses, and growing water-thirsty crops. As inflation mounts and the national debt balloons, progressive politicians vote for ever more spending. As the ice caps melt and record temperatures…

Political pressure to modify the filibuster has ramped up significantly in recent weeks: Democrats, who control Washington right now, face calls from their base to codify abortion rights in the wake o

UVALDE, Tex. — Journalists had been threatened with arrest for getting too close to the mourners, so Houston Chronicle reporter Julian Gill stayed in the designated media area when he reported on fune

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Research has shown that 85% of communicators report that the C-suite has been relying on them for strategic counsel during the pandemic. The PR department has been leaned on these past 18 months to inform employees, investors, media, analysts, and more. Using communications to keep internal…

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Private schools have always had more flexibility, and usually more money, but never has that disparity made a bigger difference than now. Punahou School in Honolulu will be open full time in the fall. Its donors and alumni have given money to help make that happen.Credit...Cory Lum for The New York…

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Imagine that eight people walk into a meeting to discuss an important strategic decision for their company. They’re all well-versed in the challenge they face. But two members of the group hold some key piece of information or a perspective that not everybody has considered. Everyone knows, for…

Stripe on Friday released the first version of Stripe Checkout, its attempt to make “something that looks great, makes Stripe easier to integrate, improves with time, and results in a better payment experience for users.” The company says it has achieved this thanks to even simpler integration via…

Facebook recently instituted a new program that makes it easy for 3rd party websites and services to automatically post links about your activity elsewhere back into Facebook and the newsfeeds of your friends. It’s called Seamless Sharing (a.k.a. frictionless sharing) and there’s a big backlash…