Nation’s Report Card shows declining scores for 8th and 12th graders: “These results are sobering”

[ad_1] Students across the country are increasingly struggling to meet proficiency standards in science, math and reading, newly released data shows. Assessing eighth graders in science and 12th graders in mathematics and reading, the students’ average scores dropped in each subject between 2019 and 2024, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, which released…

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Macron names Sébastien Lecornu as France’s latest prime minister after government collapses

[ad_1] French President Macron late Tuesday appointed Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister and tasked him with immediately trying to get the country’s fractious political parties to agree on a budget for one of the world’s biggest economies.  Lecornu, 39, was the youngest defense minister in French history and was overseeing a…

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The U.S. is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs, analysis finds

[ad_1] Manufacturers in the U.S. are cutting thousands of jobs even as President Trump pushes economic policies that he says will revitalize the industry.  Employers shed 12,000 manufacturing jobs in August, while payrolls in the sector have shrunk by 42,000 since April, according to a new analysis from the Center for American Progress (CAP) that draws on government…

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