CHICAGO — Ismael El-Amin was driving his daughter to school when a chance encounter gave him an idea for a new way to carpool. On the way across Chicago, El-Amin’s daughter spotted a classmate riding with her own dad as they drove to their selective public school on the city’s North Side. For 40 minutes,…
China has urged its primary and secondary schools to add artificial intelligence to the curriculum as it moves to nurture young talent in the emerging field. The Ministry of Education has asked the schools to improve AI education to “meet China’s future demand for innovative talent” and improve students’ digital skills and problem-solving abilities, according…
Many on social media are mourning the death of a 25-year-old Chinese woman who tenaciously fought terminal cancer until it ultimately took her life. Lu Wenna, an auxiliary police officer in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, passed away on December 6 from a rare form of cancer known as rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of soft tissue sarcoma….
Clinicians who completed an American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) course introducing the foundations of lifestyle medicine and food as medicine reported significant improvements in their knowledge and confidence, as well as increases in how often they practice lifestyle medicine with patients, a research study found. The findings are important because, while lifestyle behavior changes…
MARSHALL — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., delivered one of two commencement addresses Saturday for East Texas Baptist University’s largest graduating class. The ceremonies in Baker Chapel of the Rogers Spiritual Life Center marked the conferral of degrees to 140 undergraduate and 62 graduate students Manchin has represented West Virginia in the U.S. Senate since…
DUNKIRK, N.Y. — A little more than four months into the academic year, a handful of school districts across New York state have banned student cell phones from the classroom. It’s a subject Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to discuss during her State of the State address next month. One upstate district has given its…
New York state’s teachers union is calling on lawmakers to implement a ban on cell phones in school. The New York State United Teachers gathered a coalition of partners in education, healthcare, child and family advocacy, and law enforcement together on Monday who support “distraction-free schools.” “Kids’ personal devices have no place in the classroom….
New RAND research identifies early predictors of cognitive impairment and dementia using a nationally representative U.S. dataset, highlighting the role of modifiable factors and baseline cognitive health in prevention and intervention strategies. Report: Identifying Early Predictors of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in a Large Nationally Representative U.S. Sample. Image Credit: Orawan Pattarawimonchai / Shutterstock A new report…
ALBANY – Students at public schools that perform as the bottom 25% of Georgia’s schools can now apply for the Georgia Promise Scholarship after the state released the list of Promise Schools on Tuesday. The scholarship, made possible by a bill signed into law in 2024, aims to empower families to pursue “exceptional educational programs…
Swiped: The School that Banned Smartphones presents a pioneering social experiment (Picture: Channel 4) At the beginning of the new school year, 12-year-old Liana agreed to give up her phone for three whole weeks. There would be no Snapstreaks, no Whatsapp messages and no TikTok videos. Ahead of putting her phone in a locked box,…