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Two students are seen wearing masks over their faces. | Unsplash/Kelly Sikkema A new assessment purports that reading and math scores for 9-year-old students saw historic declines during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period that reportedly negatively impacted student behavior and performance due to remote learning arrangements. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also referred […]
Three days before the first day of school in Columbus, Ohio, the teachers’ union went on strike, leaving 47,000 students with nowhere to go. School board officials promised that schooling would move forward “online,” but on what was supposed to be the first day, the website suffered hours-long outages. It was chaos. Even as […]
Pathways and parks line Arkansas River connecting downtown Wichita with several of the museums. | Dennis Lennox After visiting Wichita it is easy to see why this is one of the most underrated cities in the country. With a population of 392,059 at the last census, the seat of surrounding Sedgwick County is the largest […]
A former nurse practitioner for CVS says the pharmacy giant illegally fired her when she refused to distribute contraceptives. According to The Christian Post, the Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the woman, Paige Casey. The lawsuit was filed in the Virginia Court for the County of Prince William. Casey worked […]
Amanda Mammana, a singer who has a speech impediment moves the judges to tears on “America’s Got Talent” on July 18, 2022. | Screenshot: YouTube/America’s Got Talent “America’s Got Talent” finalist Amanda Mammana used her gift of song to share the Gospel at an Andrew Palau evangelistic outreach event where she testified to how, despite […]
Pete Alonso at a Mets News Conference speaking on his horrific car accident on the way to spring training, 2022 | Screenshot: SNY New York Mets slugger Pete Alonso miraculously walked away from a horrific car crash this week with only a scratch. The two-time Home Run Derby champion was struck by a driver in […]
The new building for the Manhattan campus of Nyack College. Set to be opened in 2013. | Photo courtesy Nyack College Nyack College, a 140-year-old New York City-based Christian academic institution, is changing its name to Alliance University. In a video posted to Facebook on Thursday, Alliance University President Rajan S. Mathews and others briefly […]
Amy Grant performs at the Ryman Auditorium on December 13, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee. | Jason Kempin/Getty Images Popular Christian singer Amy Grant is postponing her August tour dates after a bicycle accident landed her in the hospital last week. The postponement, announced on her website, came after Grant’s doctor advised the singer to rest […]
On Wednesday, a former prison chaplain with the Federal Bureau of Prisons was sentenced to seven years in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing a female inmate and then denying the abuse when questioned by federal agents. The chaplain – 50-year-old James Theodore Highhouse – also received a consecutive sentence of five years of supervised release […]
William Byron, driver of the #24 Liberty University Chevrolet, celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on March 20, 2022, in Hampton, Georgia. | Sean Gardner/Getty Images Liberty University-sponsored driver William Byron won NASCAR’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway Sunday, the third […]