One time in 6th hour I said, “Man I’m tired.” A kid looked at me and said, “Teachers always say they’re tired.” Yep, grading 160 papers within a week is tiring. Composing and giving an original, 20 minute-long memorized speech in front of 30 people, 6 times a day, every day, 180 days a year, is very tiring.
Ryan Carter, Democrat, is running for Clay County Justice of the Peace District 7. Carter has served Clay County in several capacities in the past few years. He is the founder of the Corning Community Garden and a board member of Growing Corning Together. He has served two and a half years as an AmeriCorps Volunteer In Service To America (VISTA) and has served as the Access to Healthy Foods Team Leader for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He serves as the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Clay County.
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Tax deductible donations are being accepted for Corning’s recreational project, including: M. B.
The Division of Elementary and Secondary Education is offering an opportunity for Arkansas English Language (ELA) Educators and Stakeholders to provide input on the Arkansas ELA revisions, scheduled for the summer of 2022. DESE is seeking stakeholder feedback on how the current ELA standards could be revised to best prepare K-12 students for college, career and community success.
The White House recently issued a warning about the probability of a Russian cyberattack on American infrastructure. Said President Joe Biden on March 21: “Most of America’s critical infrastructure is owned and operated by the private sector and critical infrastructure owners and operators must accelerate efforts to lock their digital doors. The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been actively working with organizations across critical infrastructure to rapidly share information and mitigation guidance to help protect their systems and networks. If you have not already done so, I urge our private sector partners to harden your cyber defenses immediately by implementing the best practices we have developed together over the last year. You have the power, the capacity, and the responsibility to strengthen the cybersecurity and resilience of the critical services and technologies on which Americans rely. We need everyone to do their part to meet one of the defining threats of our time — your vigilance and urgency today can prevent or mitigate attacks tomorrow.” The U.S. got an idea of what such an attack could do in 2021 when Russia-based cybercriminals hacked into the IT network of Colonial Pipeline. Colonial ultimately paid a $5 million ransom to get the system back under its control. Russia was also involved in cyberattacks on Ukraine’s power grid in 2015 and 2016.
During the school year, your child may take one or more standardized tests. While we can debate whether or not a single standardized test accurately measures the performance of students, (especially since the Covid pandemic changed everything we do at school) it can’t be denied that standardized tests play a major role in today’s schooling. Standardized tests provide a way for educators to evaluate the performance of students and schools, measuring them against state and national standards. These tests can provide teachers and parents with insight into a child’s progress, help identify areas of strengths and weakness, and help the school decide where we need to focus more attention.
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas growers intend to plant significantly more cotton and soybean acres in 2022, while greatly reducing corn acreage, according to the 2022 Prospective Plantings report released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
LITTLE ROCK — Promoting the teaching profession and increasing the teacher pipeline include not only diversifying and expanding the number of teachers in the workforce, but it also involves providing opportunities for current educators to grow professionally. To assist educators on their journey for high-quality professional development, the Arkansas Department of Education is pleased to announce that it has budgeted more than $5 million for five upcoming teacher academies and more than $12 million for future academies. All of the academies offer graduate credit hours and are available at no cost to participants. Four of the academies
LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge joined First Community Bank and banks around the nation warning Arkansans about the latest scam sweeping the State. The newest scam involves con artists spoofing a phone number to cause the bank’s fraud department name and number to display on the phone’s caller I.D. The scammer will use official-sounding conversation to gain the trust and then ask for the consumer to provide a verification code via text message. The code will give the scammer access to the consumer’s account, and even change the online banking password. The scammer will then transfer the funds in the account via a third party app, such as Zelle.