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Why Esports in Schools is a Good Thing

ViewSonic Education

As a spectator sport and as an industry. A 2003 analysis of 15 cases of school shooters found all but two suffered from social rejection. Computer-related occupations are the largest projected category of new jobs between 2014 – 2024. (By Esports as an industry is an expanding area of study at colleges and universities.

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

The Hechinger Report

Systems like background checks and data tracking are key safety mechanisms in any industry. They found 1,362 fatalities in child care from 1985 through 2003, 75 percent of them in home-based care, both licensed and unlicensed. As of 2024, California is the only state that still doesn’t post serious injury or abuse data online at all.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

But the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, like many small-town and rural school districts across the country, is reliant on a small tax base that is highly dependent on the fading local oil and gas industry, tourism and dwindling state funds. Money or no money, Seward’s floods keep coming.

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