A severe shortage of teachers has hit crisis levels. School superintendents say their teachers are underpaid, overworked, and exhausted. A recent survey showed that almost half of teachers are seriously considering leaving the profession, while fewer young people are entering the field. A drop in the education experience hurts the...
Here are signs of the seasons: Ramadan Begins, April 1 Ramadan is the most sacred month of the year in Islamic culture. Muslims observe the month of Ramadan, to mark that Allah, or God, gave the first chapters of the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad in 610, according to the...
Valentine’s Day Quotes “Love is a mighty power, a great and complete good. Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable. Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger, higher, nothing more fulfilling...
For Maria Andrejczyk, something mattered more than the silver medal she won for Poland in the javelin during the recent Tokyo Olympics. She auctioned off her medal to help pay for a surgery for an eight-month-old baby with a heart defect. But the winning bidders, a Polish store chain, Zabka,...
Jamaican runner Hansle Parchment made it to the Olympics, but took the wrong bus to his 110 meters hurdles, which landed him at the aquatics center. Fortunately, a kindhearted volunteer gave him money for a taxi, to get him to the right venue just in time. Hansle won the Gold...
