• KGBT

    San Benito High School TB tests come back negative

    SAN BENITO, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Cameron County Health Administrator Esmeralda Guajardo announced all Tuberculosis tests performed on San Benito High School students came back negative. On March 27, the Cameron County Public Health Department notified San Benito CISD that an individual at San Benito High School had tested positive for Tuberculosis, according to Guajardo. She []

  • Letters to the Editor: I helped write UCLA's high school data science course. This is what our critics miss

    To the editor: As a co-author of the UCLA high school data science course maligned by UC Davis professor Norman Matloff in his Times op-ed article, I agree with him that data science is a field in which even professionals make serious errors. That's why data science education must begin early and not be treated as a mathematical afterthought. Mathematics is only one component of data science. Almost three decades of research have shown that students can and should learn important statistical...

  • Zombie Tests: Is the SAT Back From the Dead?

    When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, higher education institutions throughout the United States started adopting a progressive standard of education that advocates had demanded for decades: they began dropping standardized tests such as the SAT and the ACT as requirements for admissions. As was the case with so many other pandemic-era societal adaptations—government economic relief that lowered poverty rates, More

  • Letter to the editor: Trump's difficult path back

    Former President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on April 19: “We are under political attack from Biden’s D.C. thugs, working closely with the D.A.’s office, in order to help re-elect Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in history.”

  • Amarillo High School, Palo Duro High School honor alumni hall of fame inductees

    The Amarillo Independent School District announced that two of its high schools were set to induct the newest members of their alumni halls of fame on Thursday morning, welcoming five new honorees in total.

  • Letter to the editor: In November, take back the U.S.

    Now is the time for the Judeo-Christian community to unite and send a message with our votes that America will no longer tolerate the evil and insanity of the radical political left (“Democrats’ lawlessness knows no bounds,” 2eb, April 21).

  • ‘Warmonger’ idiocy, bring back school discipline and other commentary

    The Post Editorial Board gives its thoughts on issues including bringing back school discipline, the conservative 'warmonger' idiocy, GOP isolationism, pro-Hamas protests, and Bragg v. Trump.

  • Kevin Bacon dances back to ’Footloose’ high school

    PAYSON, Utah (AP) — Actor Kevin Bacon on Saturday returned to the Utah high school where the cult classic movie “Footloose” was filmed more than 40 years. Bacon danced his way to a stage on a Payson High School athletic field Saturday to greet students before what likely was the final prom held at the […]

    • KTVZ

    Kevin Bacon dances back to 'Footloose' high school

    PAYSON, Utah (AP) — Actor Kevin Bacon on Saturday returned to the Utah high school where the cult classic movie “Footloose” was filmed more than 40 years. Bacon danced his way to a stage on a Payson High School athletic field Saturday to greet students before what likely was the final prom held at the

    • KIFI

    Kevin Bacon dances back to 'Footloose' high school

    PAYSON, Utah (AP) — Actor Kevin Bacon on Saturday returned to the Utah high school where the cult classic movie “Footloose” was filmed more than 40 years. Bacon danced his way to a stage on a Payson High School athletic field Saturday to greet students before what likely was the final prom held at the

  • Kevin Bacon dances back to 'Footloose' high school

    Actor Kevin Bacon has returned to the Utah high school where his cult classic movie “Footloose” was filmed more than 40 years ago

    • WCVB

    Should the SAT still matter after all these years? Why some colleges are bringing it back

    The longest-enduring standardized college admissions test in the nation, the SAT has faced decades of controversy over bias and criticism for reducing aspiring college students to a test score.