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Group Project Horror Stories — and How to Avoid Them
[ad_1] If you’ve ever been a student, then you’ve probably done a group project at some point. And you most likely also have a horror story about a group project that went terribly wrong. That trend was clear when EdSurge recently took a microphone to one campus and asked several students to share their group ... -
Kids Aren’t the Only Ones Who Benefit From Social-Emotional Learning
[ad_1] How would you react if you learned that one of your students felt that you don’t treat them like a full person, with a life and responsibilities beyond the classroom? This is a real scenario we encountered during a focus group last school year with a group of high school students in Florida who ... -
Dear Abby: Can people in this society PLEASE stop assuming that everyone has a smartphone?
[ad_1] DEAR ABBY: Can people in this society PLEASE stop assuming that everyone has a smartphone? Not everyone is willing — or able — to spend $1,000-plus for one. Some of us carry older, less-expensive phones that receive calls and text messages and that’s it. I just got off a really annoying phone call with ... -
Dear Abby: Cousin’s thirst for beer puts passengers at risk
[ad_1] DEAR ABBY: A cousin I hardly know (he’s 20 years older than I am and has lived hundreds of miles away my entire life) was visiting. He offered to drive me to his brother’s house out in the country, about 30 miles from here, for dinner. The last 15 miles were on narrow country ... -
Doing business with the Navy shouldn’t be ‘artificially hard,’ research chief says
[ad_1] The Navy’s top research organization is “dedicated” to making it easier for small businesses to get contracts, the chief of naval research said Thursday. And, he said, if the process is “artificially hard,” companies should call him out on it. “We have really, really worked hard to lower the barrier of entry and make ... -
Dear Abby: Man’s laissez-faire attitude toward his health worries his wife
[ad_1] DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are in our 30s. I love him, and I’m worried because he has a “laissez-faire” attitude about everything — especially his health. He has had high cholesterol for five years and has done little to nothing about it. He found out only because I kept hounding him for ... -
US to train Ukrainian pilots, maintainers on F-16s this fall
[ad_1] The United States will train Ukrainian pilots and maintainers to operate F-16 fighter jets, the Pentagon announced Thursday. “We’re going to do everything we can to ensure that those pilots have the training and the knowledge necessary to be able to effectively employ this very sophisticated combat weapon,” Pentagon Spokesman Air Force Brig. Gen. ... -
Meet the tiny State Department offices clearing billions of dollars’ worth of weapons for Ukraine
[ad_1] As Ukraine battled to push Russia out of the suburbs of Kyiv in March of last year, State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Mira Resnick got an urgent call from a U.S. military airfield in Germany. An allied cargo plane full of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles had just landed, and the U.S. needed permission from the ...









