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TEC Chairman Promises Overhaul of Telangana’s Govt Schools in Six Months
4 weeks ago

TEC Chairman Promises Overhaul of Telangana’s Govt Schools in Six Months

Deccan Chronicle  

ADILABAD: The chairman of the Telangana Education Commission, Akunuri Murali, on Friday said that conditions in government schools and hostels would improve within six months. Small schools with 10-30 students and single teachers negatively impact the education system and the future of students in government schools. The state government needs to create big schools with adequate students and teachers, a …

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Big Ten and SEC are again the top conferences in revenue with athlete pay plan on horizon
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Big Ten and SEC are again the top conferences in revenue with athlete pay plan on horizon

Associated Press  

The Big Ten held a narrow edge over the Southeastern Conference in revenue for the second straight year and the Atlantic Coast Conference again ranked a distant third among the five largest college sports conferences, according to tax filings released this week. The five leagues combined to generate $3.55 billion in the 2022-23 fiscal year, with the Big Ten reporting …

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Children hit hardest by the pandemic are now the big kids at school. Many still need reading help
1 year, 4 months ago

Children hit hardest by the pandemic are now the big kids at school. Many still need reading help

Associated Press  

They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. Beyond third grade, fewer teachers each year know how to help students who are lacking key foundational reading skills, said Elizabeth Albro, an executive at the U.S. Department …

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What’s next in conference realignment as Pac-4 search for solutions and conferences weight options?
1 year, 4 months ago

What’s next in conference realignment as Pac-4 search for solutions and conferences weight options?

Associated Press  

The Pac-4 schools are in limbo. The Atlantic Coast Conference can’t reach a consensus on expansion, and the Big Ten seems to be done adding West Coast schools — but we have heard that before. PAC-4 While talking with the ACC, Stanford and Cal were still exhausting options to convince the Big Ten to add two more West Coast schools …

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Emerson: Big Ten adding Washington, Oregon another cash grab amid leaders’ NIL hypocrisy
1 year, 5 months ago

Emerson: Big Ten adding Washington, Oregon another cash grab amid leaders’ NIL hypocrisy

New York Times  

It was the Wu-Tang Clan that, more than three decades ago, captured the current spirit of college athletics: Cash rules everything around me. Let’s not hear any more about college athletes, young enough to go to war for their country, not being old enough to participate in a free and open market. GO DEEPER Oregon, Washington to join Big Ten …

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Victorian budget 2023 hits big business and landlords to pay back COVID-19 debt
1 year, 7 months ago

Victorian budget 2023 hits big business and landlords to pay back COVID-19 debt

ABC  

Big businesses, holiday-home owners and landlords will be asked to foot the bill for the Victorian government's COVID-19 debt, as part of a 10-year fiscal repair plan unveiled in the state budget. Key points: The COVID levy will impose increased taxes on big business and property owners over 10 years Net debt is still expected to rise to roughly a …

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Arizona president Robert C. Robbins: Pac-12 media deal will be ‘better’ than Big 12’s
1 year, 9 months ago

Arizona president Robert C. Robbins: Pac-12 media deal will be ‘better’ than Big 12’s

New York Times  

In a wide-ranging 50-minute interview Wednesday, Arizona President Robert C. Robbins said he expects the Pac-12 to finalize a media rights deal “within the next couple of weeks,” and that he believes the dollar figure will be “better” than the Big 12’s recent extension with ESPN and Fox worth $31.7 million per school annually. I think we’ll be the third-best …

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Capt. Gopinath elated at Sorarai Pottru winning big at national film awards
2 years, 5 months ago

Capt. Gopinath elated at Sorarai Pottru winning big at national film awards

The Hindu  

City-based entrepreneur Captain G.R. Gopinath, whose memoir Simply Fly, the Surya-starrer Tamil film Soorarai Pottru is based on, said he was happy that his story of challenges and entrepreneurship had reached the masses, while also being critically acclaimed. The film won big at the 68th National Film Awards, including the Best Film of 2021. It feels great that the film …

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Big 12 in ‘serious’ talks with 6 Pac-12 schools: Sources
2 years, 6 months ago

Big 12 in ‘serious’ talks with 6 Pac-12 schools: Sources

New York Times  

The Big 12 is in “serious” talks with six Pac-12 members, sources told The Athletic. Sources expressed optimism that new Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark, hired last week, can pull it off. The Pac-12, despite losing two flagship schools in USC and UCLA last week, is “not panicked,” a source told The Athletic. A former Pac-12 administrator put it in …

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Who Should Be Most Terrified by USC and UCLA’s Move to the Big Ten?
2 years, 6 months ago

Who Should Be Most Terrified by USC and UCLA’s Move to the Big Ten?

Slate  

College football has always been a factional exercise. That has been the Big Ten, which lacks the SEC’s easy recruiting footprint but has other assets—bigger population centers and some enormous alumni bases—that have brought it even more television money. Jon Wilner, the Pac-12 Hotline reporter who broke the news, was among several who suggested the Big Ten’s shopping spree might …

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What's behind the right-wing book-ban frenzy? Big money -- and a long-term plan
2 years, 11 months ago

What's behind the right-wing book-ban frenzy? Big money -- and a long-term plan

Raw Story  

Until very recently, "book bans" seemed like a term out of the past, or a phenomenon that erupted sporadically in small school or library district in the most conservative areas of the country. Parents Defending Education — a self-described "grassroots organization" promoting "the restoration of a healthy, non-political education for our kids" — is led by Nicole Neily, whose résumé …

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The Pointless Extravagance of Texas and Oklahoma’s SEC Move
55 years ago

The Pointless Extravagance of Texas and Oklahoma’s SEC Move

Slate  

A college sports conference realignment wave starts in one of two ways. The second way to jumpstart conference realignment is for one or two schools to light a stick of dynamite and throw it through the rest of college sports’ collective window. A Big 12 revenue share is now around $40 million per school per year, while the SEC’s number …

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Stanford sports cuts could mean big loss for US Olympic team
4 years, 4 months ago

Stanford sports cuts could mean big loss for US Olympic team

Associated Press  

If all the athletes from Stanford had been their own country, they would have tied with South Korea for 11th place in the medal standings at the 2016 Olympics. It’s an eye-opening statistic that has been made more jarring because of the recent decision by Stanford — a university renowned for fielding the most extensive college sports program in the …

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