Darien students’ math skills fall between elementary and middle school. A new program looks to fix that.
Principal Luke Forshaw interacts with second grade students at Ox Ridge Elementary School in Darien earlier in the school year. […]
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Think you’re good at math? A new study shows it may be because you had equitable math teachers
A new study finds that high school students identify more with math if they see their math teacher treating everyone
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I quit my job as a math teacher to become a long-haul truck driver. The job is challenging and I miss my students, but I don’t see myself going back anytime soon.
Vanita Johnson had just turned 50 when she quit teaching to become a long-haul truck driver. She says the market
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At least four dead, thousands evacuated in Malaysia floods
At least four people have died and nearly 41,000 evacuated in Malaysia after floodwaters caused by “unusual” torrential rains lasting
Physics
Hatching leatherback turtles get helping hand on Thai beach
It is past midnight on a beach in southern Thailand and 12-year-old Prin Uthaisangchai is anxiously staring at a leatherback
Physics
‘Surgical’ shark-killing orcas fascinate off South Africa
Scores of disembowelled sharks have washed up on a South African beach putting the spotlight on a pair of shark-hunting
Physics
Treaty ahoy? Talks to protect high seas near finish line
UN countries appeared Friday to be nearing an agreement on a long-awaited treaty to protect the high seas, a fragile
Physics
Rhythmic eating pattern preserves fruit fly muscle function under obese conditions
Obese fruit flies are the experimental subjects in a Nature Communications study of the causes of muscle function decline due
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Jules Lissajous born in Versailles, France. He devised ways to see sound waves. More information about: Jules Antoine Lissajous Read
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Thomas Jefferson became the third president of the United States. During his two terms in office he repeatedly sponsored governmental