Remote proctoring tools have faced pushback at colleges over privacy and discrimination concerns, but their use in K-12 schools has attracted less scrutinyIn the middle of night, students at Utah’s Kings Peak high school are wide awake – taking mandatory exams.At this online-only school, which opened during the pandemic and has seen its enrollment boom ever since, students take tests from their homes at times that work best with their schedules. Principal Ammon Wiemers says it’s this flexibility...
“We bring in the best jazz artists on the scene, and that attracts a lot of schools,” Landry said. “It’s rare to see a line up like we have year after year. That emphasis being on education puts the spotlight on what we feel is important, which is students learning about this amazing form of music.”
Bar chain Rileys is planning to open a sports and entertainment venue at 123 Albion Street, where alcohol would be sold until 3am. Leeds City Council has received eight letters of objection to the application, mainly on the grounds of potential public nuisance. Rileys would be in Unit 1 of the building, where comedy venue the Glee Club has already been granted a licence for its premises at Unit 2. Those objecting said they had already faced sleepless nights when the building was previously a...
Roblox will soon allow programmatic ad buys for video-based billboards in its virtual world.
MIPTV: Broadcasters in Australia, Poland and India have picked up period espionage drama Davos 1917 (6×45’), distributor Global Screen announced today. Public broadcaster SBS in Australia, TVP i
Leeds United lost ground in the automatic promotion race after losing 1-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers on Saturday. A lacklustre attacking performance was punished by Sammie Sczmodics’ 82nd-minute winner to inflict a first home defeat of the season on Daniel Farke’s side. After climbing to the top of the Championship last month, Leeds have won just one of their five games since returning from the March international break. Fortunately for them, Leicester City and Ipswich Town have both dropped...
The 'national security' campaign will create fear of the West and strain personal relationships, analysts say.
The incident, which is being dealt with by emergency services, was confirmed earlier today (April 14) by operator LNER. A spokesperson said: “It is with great sadness that we report that a person has been hit by a train between Leeds and Doncaster. “Services are subject to delays when passing in the surrounding areas.” Sign up for our free newsletters now National Rail confirmed this afternoon that the lines have since reopened following the incident, but that trains running between the two...
Improvement works on Huddersfield Station means that no services will be able to run to and from the town this weekend (Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14). The major upgrade work, part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) scheme, includes two new platforms and the extension of current platforms to improve station capacity. It also includes upgrading the number of tracks between Huddersfield and Ravensthorpe from two to four, as well as other work to increase reliability. Get the latest...
Qualified plumber Josh Stringer, now 24, quit his full-time job in 2022 to start his own business, Dog Showers. It was not a planned endeavour. The idea behind installing showers to the exterior of homes in Leeds came following a conversation with his mum about the mess the pets make around the house after walks. The first shower was installed at his childhood home. And through the power of social media, Josh began getting booked for jobs. Demand for Dog Showers reached such a level that the...
Coventry City kept themselves in the hunt for a play-off place with victory
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