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Education departments have been investing in feedback-based tools to assess school performance. These include student perception surveys, where students provide feedback on the quality of their learning and their experiences in the classroom or at school.

Cross-section of a fossilized ammonite shell

It's a bit of a fib that Fibonacci, the 13th-century Italian math whiz, was the first to sketch out a number sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and so on forever. In fact, scholars in India described the sequence centuries before Fibonacci, and they probably weren't the first to figure it out either. But in any case, each November 23—that is, 11/23—we celebrate the infinite series known as the Fibonacci sequence.
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So what does this have to do with our image of a fossilized shell? Try to picture the Fibonacci sequence on a graph. If you properly arrange squares of the areas 1x1, 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, 5x5, 8x8, etc., on graphing paper, a curved line drawn through each square will form a perfect expanding spiral not unlike the ammonite fossil cross-sectioned here. Not every spiral in nature expresses a perfect Fibonacci sequence, but nature does seem to have a thing for spirals. And in that sense the Fibonacci sequence seems especially elegant.
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How a child learns is as individual as the child themselves. Yet with the pressures of large class sizes, decreases in school funding and, most recently, home-schooling, many teachers are struggling to keep track of their students' performance.

Philadelphia parents who don't speak English say they've long been excluded from parts of their children's education because of language barriers, an issue that's only been exacerbated by the pandemic and the return to in-person learning.

The click bait title is a little bit of a "white lie", and you can probably guess if you've ever listened to the Darknet Diaries podcast:
[SPOILER]He was doing so as a white hat hacker on the red team, but even physically robbed more than one! ...
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"Girls are expected to work harder, perform better academically and behave better. On the other hand, boys are allowed to get away with worse behavior.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has ordered the state’s education agency to investigate if pornography is available in school libraries and to refer any instances “for prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.”

A 15-year-old who reported to school officials and the North Carolina police she was sexually assaulted was suspended for false reporting.

Over 250 students at a university in New Mexico have failed to comply with a vaccine mandate that required them to be fully inoculated by Friday, the Albuquerque Journal

The University of Michigan, a taxpayer-funded institution with the third-largest public endowment in the United States, paid a critical race theory (CRT) activist close to $266 per minute – $20,000 in total – to lecture on systemic racism over Zoom, according to financial documents obtained by The Federalist pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
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Headlining this year’s “Nancy Cantor Lecture on Intellectual Diversity” at Michigan was Beverly Daniel Tatum. Tatum, a clinical psychologist and the author of several left-wing manifestos on race relations, raked in the same amount of money from Michigan taxpayers as CRT czar Ibram X. Kendi in November 2020.
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School board races, once sleepy and localized, have become the new front in a culture war raging across the nation as resentments over COVID-19 restrictions and anti-racism curriculum reach a boiling point.

A Florida English teacher who was recently named a "teacher of the year" has been arrested and charged with child abuse against a student. 

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New York City officials announced plans this month for its school system, the country's largest, to phase out its program for gifted and talented students.

Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick is calling for students to end their weeks-long occupation of the school’s student center. 

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday defended a memo aimed at combating threats against school officials nationwide while Republicans insisted he rescind the directive.

A racial reckoning began years ago for the Guilford school system, first with an episode in which a student wore blackface makeup to a home football game and then a fraught debate over the elimination of its mascot, the Indians.

Even as schools have returned in full swing across the country, complications wrought by the pandemic persist, often falling hardest on those least able to weather them: families without transportation, people with limited income or other financial hardship, people who don't speak English, children with special needs.