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The Texas Board of Education has added biblical texts to the compulsory school reading list. Pupils from the earliest grades through to the 12th will read the stories of Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, and extracts from the New Testament. I consider it a splendid neighbourhood for Dickens'
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In the house at 35 Tavricheskaya, one floor below Vyacheslav Ivanov's "Tower", where all Symbolist Petersburg gathered on Wednesdays, a drawing school operated from 1906. The school was founded by Elizaveta Zvantseva, a pupil of Repin and Serov. By the turn of the century the Academy
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In Vietnam, Fabrication of Research Data and Plagiarism Are to Be Punished with a Lifetime Ban from Science. On 25 May the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the penalties awaiting dishonest scholars: the return of grants, a public apology, and an entry recording the violation on the national digital
Archaeology · Science · Education · Nature
Here is another recent study claiming to change our ideas about the origin of humankind. An international team led by Eslem Ben Arous and Eleanor Scerri describes stone tools of Homo sapiens, 150,000 years old, found at the Bété I site in Côte d'Ivoire. The layer has
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From the famous Prigov: “Just stepped out of the bath, and already I remember nothing.” A month is built much the same way. So let me propose recalling the main things from April's publications in the digest. 🎭 At the Taganka Theatre, Alexander Zolotovitsky has staged “Three Sisters”, in
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The first documented case of sucking up to a teacher was preserved for us by Sumerian literature. It is probably one of the most popular texts in Sumerian: a poem about a negligent pupil, written around 2000 BC by an unknown teacher. The poem was called "Schooldays". The
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Familiar feeling? Incidentally, you end up at the resit, because it was Anne Hathaway
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For the previous thirty years, a fifteen-minute procession of the cross got in the way of no traffic whatever. Nor do I recall any such restrictions being imposed on rallies and concerts, or on the mass festive and prayer gatherings of other faiths, running to many thousands of people
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Social studies has no disciplinary core. Physics quite literally explains how the world is put together, why the lightbulb burns and why the water stands heaped above the rim of the glass. Mathematics teaches one to think rigorously and to bestir one's wits. History supplies context. And social
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From 2026 all universities in South Korea will be obliged to take records of school bullying into account at admission. Previously this was voluntary; now it is compulsory: an applicant with a record of violence in his school file has his score reduced or is simply turned away. In 2025
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Among the Moscow state gymnasia, the Fourth stood in a class of its own. It was a classical school of the highest rank, with Latin and Greek, and with the right of direct entry to Moscow University. Its teachers were men of uncommon gifts: the physicist Kraevich, whose textbook outlived