Building science lessons around phenomena that students know equally and can see in their own lives is making the subject more relevant and interesting.

Pennsylvania’s approach and priority for educational technology can be summed up in the name of its major technology initiative: Getting to One. The state is working toward having technology fully integrated not only into classroom life, but also into the operation of schools and districts.

Several women told local newspapers that Pennsylvania state board chair Larry Wittig pursued sexual relationships with them when they were teenagers.

State of the States: Education highlights from latest governor's address before the legislature.

Distinguished educators are assigned by the state to help low-scoring districts in Pennsylvania. Part of Education Week's special annual report, Leading for Learning.

Six school systems, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, and the NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference want to change the state's school-funding system, which allows for wide spending gaps between low- and high-income districts.

The lawsuit, filed in 2014, alleges that the state was severely underfunding schools, forcing school districts to lean heavily on property taxes, which especially disadvantages students in property-poor areas.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has become increasingly critical of charter schools this year, and his new proposals for charters would change how they operate and how they are funded.

This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.

This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.

The Every Student Succeeds Act allows up to seven states to try out new kinds of tests in a handful of districts before taking them statewide.

Georgia wants to allow districts to use a series of "formative assessments" instead of one big test at the end of the year.

Women's flag football is set to be an official NAIA sport as soon as 2021.

The university’s Center for Vaccine Research is working to create a coronavirus vaccine.

Download the Pac-12 Now app to watch an epic, triple-overtime 2003 battle between USC and California this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. PT/ 2:30 p.m. MT. The game will be available to all fans.

Unless students are randomly assigned to teachers, it's unfair to label teachers.

Originally published as "Her Secret Island of Sex and Torment" in 2014. Rereleased as "Her Secret Island" in 2016.

Amid the rich, luxuriously sexual hotbed of Las Vegas hides secrets, lies, mystery, and murder.Tahlia Johnston is on the run from a horror she barely remembers, and a stalker chasing her in her dreams and in real life. Then, at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, the most incredible looking man walks into her life. Vegas is an oozing package of masculine sexuality who's rough around the edges and ready for anything. Especially sexual. He has a past he'll be damned if he reveals and a list of secrets to hide, and his list of problems soon grows longer -- From the Internet.

Follow the meteoric rise of 70s porn star, Carlo Stefan, and the rocky path he took to find the life and love he craved in the Porn Star Brothers series. Carlos Stephanopoulos is the eldest of three brothers. Australian born and Greek Island raised, he loves women, sex, and money, and not necessarily in that order. He lives the good life, screwing women of all ages morning, noon and night until one night the good life comes to a screeching halt. On the run with only a suitcase and money, he winds up in Hollywood working in porn movies, with a new name and new look, only to become the biggest porn star around... but his troubles are not over.

Follow the meteoric rise of 70s porn star, Pedro Stefan, and the rocky path he took to find the life and love he craves. Pedro Stephanopoulos is the youngest of three, Australian born and Greek Island raised brothers. He loves music and being a Dj on Santorini. He lives the good life Djing four nights a week in a great job, gets a great girl, and then finds himself on the run from her over-protective father who takes matters into his own hands. Finding himself in New York, he gets the Dj gig at the hottest new club in the city and is living the high life, until it all comes crashing down with a stalker, creepy gifts, a beating, and a kidnapping.

Follow the meteoric rise of 70s porn star, Tomas Stefan, and his rocky path to find life and love. Tomas Stephanopoulos is the second of three Australian born and Greek Island raised brothers. He loves his job as a personal trainer and has no interest in emulating his elder brother by bedding all of the eligible women on the island. He lives the good life, training the ladies at the island's resort, and taking on personal clients at night. Then he meets one client who wants more than personal training, a client who wants intimate training. With his brothers on the run, he chooses to spread his wings and moves to Miami to personally train the ladies who were his clients back on Mykonos. After meeting the love of his life he moves into porn movies with a new name and a new life, but the drama has followed him from home and continues with his lover's car being trashed, porn stars being killed off, and a double kidnapping that leads to a dramatic car chase across the country.

A young artist inherits her Grammy's home in The Vales and begins to remember the stories her Grammy once shared with her. Where they real or has Grammy already lost her marbles a wee bit? When some friends come to visit she regales them with the stories and gives them a tub of her Grammy's favourite chees - the Bless Family Vegan Parmesan Cheese that she had procured from the famous Blessed Cheese cafe run by the Bless family.

"24 1⁄2 Almond Tree Grove is the second story in the series In the Vales. A fun, light fantasy story about a young girl who inherits her Grammy's Cottage in the Vales, then starts to remember some of Grammy's favourite stories of her wee friends. The Almond Tree fairies are so helpful to us all, just read my wee story and see. "These stories allow you to enter into a parallel world set within our local community. They will take you on a journey to allow your imagination to tell the tales of the adventurous characters in a variety of unique situ's. The dialogue twists between now and then to provide a rich connection to the character's shenanigans, which motivates the reader to visualise beyond the text to create deeper meaning and connection to self, family and the community we live in."

Secret wee Caves the third story in the series "In the Vales" A fun, light fantasy story about a young girl who inherits her Grammy's Cottage in the Vales, then starts to remember some of Grammy's favourite stories of her wee friends. I hear Max the Purple Dragon is such a gentleman, find out more by reading my wee story. "These stories allow you to enter into a parallel world set within our local community. They will take you on a journey to allow your imagination to tell the tales of the adventurous characters in a variety of unique situ's. The dialogue twists between now and then to provide a rich connection to the character's shenanigans, which motivates the reader to visualise beyond the text to create deeper meaning and connection to self, family and the community we live in."

With two quick bursts of the Ghost train's whistle it indicates that the time is 12 midnight, but as quick as we rush out of the front door we have never been able to catch a glimpse of that train, till now! Grammy's tales are being shared through her granddaughter, but are they tales or real events and people, hmm? Read on to find out for yourself. He He. A fictional story set In the Vales as a Children's Bedtime Story. History and characters of this rolling countryside between sea and hills has been packaged up to be fun, informative and thought provoking.

Implementing the Basin Plan requires the Murray Darling Basin Authority to evaluate the economic, social and environmental outcomes directly attributable to the Basin Plan. This report draws together all the data and modelling used to separate the Basin Plan effects (both positive and negative) from all the other drivers of change at the community scale in the southern Basin. This work built upon the analysis undertaken by the MDBA to support the Northern Basin Review. The community-level analysis adopted by the MDBA complements the industry and broad Basin-scale summary of social and economic conditions presented in the 2017 Basin Plan Evaluation report. A strong reliance is placed on the community outcomes as this represents the finer scale relationships between the types of irrigated production and local businesses, and between the towns and the surrounding farming communities. Further work is required to align these community-level outcomes with the observed regional, industry and Basin scale changes.

"The objective of the audit was to assess whether the award of funding under the RJIP program was informed by appropriate departmental advice and that processes complied with the grants administration framework."--Page 8.