Bo Levi Mitchell is a CFL all-star for the third time. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback and East Division finalist for the CFL's outstanding player award was named to the 2024 all-star squad on Thursday.

Every November, Jan Diehl adorns her Martensville, Sask., home with a special Remembrance Day tribute.

CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today declared a fourth-quarter dividend of $1.15 per share. The dividend is payable December 27, 2024, to shareholders of record as of...

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The US Federal Reserve shrugged off concerns about the economic impact of Donald Trump's election victory and moved ahead with a quarter point cut Thursday.

The violent turmoil in Israel requires prayer for this people.

At a recent missions event, OM Founder George Verwer was welcomed with open arms in the country where OM’s ministry started: Mexico.

Just under a quarter of the more than 7 000 independent drivers for Shoprite's newly acquired Pingo last-mile delivery platform are South African.

South Africa's unemployment rate fell by more than expected in the third quarter, declining by 1.4 percentage points to 32.1%.

Education Week sat down with American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten for a conversation about the recent wave of teacher activism and how the unions are preparing for the Janus decision.

With the first charter school strike in the books—and teachers coming out victorious—experts say both unions and charter schools may need to rethink how they’ve long operated.

"Authorizer shopping" is a growing threat to charter school quality, according to a report from a national advocacy and research organization.

Many of the laws that regulate charter schools do not go far enough to prevent conflicts of interest, according to a report released by Bruce Baker and Gary Miron of the National Education Policy Center.

When public schools accept an offer to move into a new building on corporate land, they open the door to interference on curriculum and faculty hiring.

Texas charter schools, on average, appear to negatively affect students' future earnings, according to a working paper by two economists.

Charter school principals in South Carolina are overwhelmingly veteran school leaders, but more than half are new to the charter sector, according to a study by the Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast.

New Orleans charter schools have increased spending on administrators and reduced spending for teachers in the years since charter schools took over nearly every public school after Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005.

Traditional public schools on average received about 29 percent more funding per student than charter schools in 14 metropolitan areas, finds a new study by the University of Arkansas' education reform department.

Students in charter schools that are run by for-profit companies perform markedly worse than their peers in charters managed by nonprofit groups, according to a study.

A new study finds lasting, positive effects for students who attend KIPP's prekindergarten program and then go on to enroll in one of the charter school network's elementary programs.

Are charter schools public or private? Do they pick and choose who can enroll? Who oversees them? And are they better at educating students than regular public schools? We answer these questions and more about charter schools in this explainer.

States vary widely on how they govern charter schools, new federal data show.

Almost 30 years after the first charter school legislation passed, guest blogger Sarah Tantillo takes a look at how this movement emerged and spread.

A look at the two major political parties' platforms since the first charter school law was passed shows how Democrats' positions on school choice have evolved, including increased calls for accountability.

For the first time, school districts are no longer granting the most new charters, says a new report by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

High-performing urban schools lent moral authority and measurable results to the charter school sector. Why do advocates give them the cold shoulder? Fordham's Robert Pondiscio answers.

By the single most important metric, charter schools are succeeding, argues Bruno V. Manno.

There are "no measurable differences" between the performance of charter schools and traditional public schools on national reading and math assessments from 2017, a finding that persists when parents' educational attainment was factored into the results.

New proposals to open "no excuses" charter schools have dropped sharply over the past five years and so, too, have the number of approvals for such schools, according to a new report from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Dig into what two leading Democratic presidential candidates have to say in their platforms about charter schools with Education Week's detailed analysis.

Dig into what two leading Democratic presidential candidates have to say in their platforms about charter schools with Education Week's detailed analysis.

Working smarter is just as important as working harder. Here's how to help students develop a strategic mindset earlier in life.

A heated school board election in the fast-changing Atlanta suburbs pits Black Lives Matter vs. the “Suburban Lifestyle Dream.”

Would parents and children be more engaged if choice were everywhere? Would teachers and leaders function differently if we weren't a monopoly? Is it the lack of choice that breeds resentments and arrogance?

Midfielder Matias Harte, of State College, was named the AMCC’s Offensive Player of the Week, and defender Owen Myers, of Spring Grove, was selected the conference’s Defensive Player of the Week.

They first met in kindergarten, and now they’re in college together. Caleb Balas, Nikolas Kistner and Alexis McGrady were educated at Hanover Area schools throughout elementary, middle and high school. Coming from a graduating class of 111 students, they frequently saw each other throughout school. Since they each made their college choice individually, they didn’t know they would continue to see each other at Penn State Wilkes-Barre — and all three said it’s nice seeing familiar faces.

A team of researchers led by Nanyin Zhang, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Brain Imaging and professor of biomedical engineering at Penn State, recently published their findings about how blood flow changes to different brain regions relate to what is happening with the brain's neurons.

Prateik clarified that it was not money and recognition that pushed him into taking drugs, as people often think

The actors recalled an incident when Aamir Khan was attacked by a chimpanzee during the shoot of the movie and Ajay saved him

Handshake Speakeasy in Mexico recently topped the list of the World's 50 Best Bars 2024. Ahead of its Mumbai pop-up, we caught up with two bartenders from the team.

Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced Friday that the DOJ’s Fraud Division has secured revocations of the corporate charters or certificates of formation of multiple Delaware-registered business entities connected to criminal entities, including a Venezuelan cartel and a federally sanctioned online pharmacy based in Argentina. “Delaware’s central role in the business community is both a privilege and a responsibility,” said […]

It’s no surprise that MarTech in 2024 seemed to be dominated by GenAI, GenAI and … more GenAI. Perhaps this is a bit of an exaggeration, but you can’t deny this topic was a headliner in the MarTech space, along with AI and customer data platforms. Here are my top [...]

3 ways MarTech will evolve in 2025 was published on SAS Voices by Jonathan Moran

Comparing Logistic Regression and Decision Tree - Which of our models is better at predicting our outcome? Learn how to compare models using misclassification, area under the curve (ROC) charts, and lift charts with validation data. In part 6 and part 7 of this series we fit a logistic regression [...]

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya for Predictive Modeling - Comparing Logistic Regression and Decision Tree was published on SAS Users.

Learn how to fit a random forest and use your model to score new data. In Part 6 and Part 7 of this series, we fit a logistic regression and decision tree to the Home Equity data we saved in Part 4. In this post we will fit a Random [...]

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya for Predictive Modeling - Fitting a Random Forest was published on SAS Users.

Fitting a Gradient Boosting Model - Learn how to fit a gradient boosting model and use your model to score new data In Part 6, Part 7, and Part 9 of this series, we fit a logistic regression, decision tree and random forest model to the Home Equity data we [...]

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya for Predictive Modeling - Fitting a Gradient Boosting Model was published on SAS Users.

The Accessions Committee met on April 20, 2023, to review all proposed accessions received since the last quarterly meeting. All accepted donations have been pre-processed and assigned to archivists for further processing. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek at the latest additions to our holdings.

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The Accessions Committee met on August 7, 2023. All accepted donations have been pre-processed and assigned to archivists for further processing. In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek at the latest additions to our holdings.

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These accessions include University of Delaware Yearbooks, the Broujos Family Records, Photographs and Postcards. All accepted donations are assigned for further processing.

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