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Most students in Alaska are falling behind in math, science and language arts, the latest statewide ratings show

A classroom at Bartlett High School in Anchorage. (Emily Mesner/ADN File) The majority of Alaska students scored below grade level on math, science and language arts assessments taken last spring — even after the state lowered the standard for what counts as proficiency. The latest results from the Alaska Academic Readiness System, known as AK …

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Most students in Alaska are falling behind in math, science and language arts, the latest statewide ratings show

A classroom at Bartlett High School in Anchorage. (Emily Mesner/ADN File) The majority of Alaska students scored below grade level on math, science and language arts assessments taken last spring — even after the state lowered the standard for what counts as proficiency. The latest results from the Alaska Academic Readiness System, known as AK …

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Political Science Class Unpacking Campaign History 2024 Presidential Election

Students have the option of taking PSC 3340: Campaigning and Elections during the 2024 election season Mesha Mitanasala | Photographer By Caitlin Beebe | Reporter With the 2024 presidential election around the corner, students will have the chance to study it in real time in PSC 3340 — Campaigns and Elections Class. Dr. Dave Bridge, …

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Political Science Class Unpacking Campaign History 2024 Presidential Election

Students have the option of taking PSC 3340: Campaigning and Elections during the 2024 election season Mesha Mitanasala | Photographer By Caitlin Beebe | Reporter With the 2024 presidential election around the corner, students will have the chance to study it in real time in PSC 3340 — Campaigns and Elections Class. Dr. Dave Bridge, …

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Political Science Class Unpacking Campaign History 2024 Presidential Election

Students have the option of taking PSC 3340: Campaigning and Elections during the 2024 election season Mesha Mitanasala | Photographer By Caitlin Beebe | Reporter With the 2024 presidential election around the corner, students will have the chance to study it in real time in PSC 3340 — Campaigns and Elections Class. Dr. Dave Bridge, …

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Most students in Alaska are falling behind in math, science and language arts, the latest statewide ratings show

A classroom at Bartlett High School in Anchorage. (Emily Mesner/ADN File) The majority of Alaska students scored below grade level on math, science and language arts assessments taken last spring — even after the state lowered the standard for what counts as proficiency. The latest results from the Alaska Academic Readiness System, known as AK …

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Lawmakers hope to use this emerging climate science to charge oil companies for disasters • Rhode Island Current

A fast-growing field of climate research is helping scientists determine exactly how many natural disaster dollars can be linked to individual oil companies’ historical emissions — an analysis that is at the center of a new state effort to make fossil fuel companies pay billions for floods, forest fires and heat waves. When a flood …

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Climate protesters who occupied London’s Science Museum vow to continue with the disruptions

Climate protesters who occupied London’s Science Museum vow to continue with the disruptions

Climate protesters who occupied the Science Museum over the weekend vowed further action against sponsorship links with the Adani Group, the world’s largest private coal producer. On Friday, more than 30 scientists and youth activists camped out at the museum’s new gallery focused on climate change, which is sponsored by renewable energy company Adani Green …

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Borderlands 3 community celebrates big win for science: “These players have helped trace the evolutionary relationships of more than one million different types of bacteria that live in the human gut”

Borderlands 3 community celebrates big win for science: “These players have helped trace the evolutionary relationships of more than one million different types of bacteria that live in the human gut”

When Borderlands Science was announced in 2020, I thought it all sounded a bit silly. science? In my Borderlands? It seemed much less likely to me than Dr. Mayim Bialik thought. But it turns out I was the stupid one all along, because McGill University, the institution leading the project, says the project is actually …

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This nodule fungus makes cicadas hypersexual

This nodule fungus makes cicadas hypersexual

As we await the “cicada apocalypse” this spring and summer, when trillions will emerge in the South and Midwest United States, some of the bugs may be facing a predicament that sounds like science fiction. A sexually transmitted fungal pathogen, exclusive to these periodical insects, called Massospora cicadina can control them as a “puppeteer”. It …

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