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Texas children are still struggling with math after the pandemic. Some schools are trying a new approach.
Read full article: Texas children are still struggling with math after the pandemic. Some schools are trying a new approach.Policy experts worry students will fall short of the state's future workforce needs. Educators hope the new curriculum will help them.
How a state effort to fund Texas schools equitably is shortchanging dozens of rural districts
Read full article: How a state effort to fund Texas schools equitably is shortchanging dozens of rural districtsFor decades, the Texas comptroller’s office has double-checked property valuations across the state, which help determine how much school districts can levy in property taxes. But when state and county appraisers disagree, districts can end up with big holes in their budgets.
Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds among new investors backing F1 team Alpine in $218 million deal
Read full article: Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds among new investors backing F1 team Alpine in $218 million dealFormula One team Alpine has secured a $218 million boost from a group of investors that includes Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds.
Stragglers pack up as Swiss village is evacuated under rockslide threat
Read full article: Stragglers pack up as Swiss village is evacuated under rockslide threatStragglers packed up belongings in cars, trucks and at least one pickup truck before a looming deadline to evacuate a village in eastern Switzerland facing an urgent rockslide threat.
EXPLAINER: 'Grip,' 'chatter,' other Olympic ski racing lingo
Read full article: EXPLAINER: 'Grip,' 'chatter,' other Olympic ski racing lingoAs in many sports, and plenty of other fields, Alpine skiing has a lingua franca — those are the words and phrases that allow folks from various places to communicate in a shared language.
Freezing in the Alps, migrants find warm hearts and comfort
Read full article: Freezing in the Alps, migrants find warm hearts and comfortAs Europe erects ever more fearsome barriers against migration, volunteers along the Italy-France border are working to keep migrants from being killed or maimed by cold and mountain mishaps as they cross the high Alps.
Swiss ski resorts show what 2022 Olympics could have been
Read full article: Swiss ski resorts show what 2022 Olympics could have beenThe Beijing Olympics are only weeks away and China has become a more problematic host than expected for an event that originally seemed destined to be staged in Europe.
Fresh snow beckons Italian skiers returning after 20 months
Read full article: Fresh snow beckons Italian skiers returning after 20 monthsAfter a season of being restricted to watching snow accumulate on distant mountains, Italian skiers are finally returning to the slopes that have been off-limits since the first pandemic lockdown in March 2020.
Swiss slopes buzz as those of neighbors sit idle in pandemic
Read full article: Swiss slopes buzz as those of neighbors sit idle in pandemicZermatt is home to one of the Swiss ski stations that has become an epicenter of discord among Alpine neighbors. “It's true, we're privileged,” said Salamin, enthusing about the “paradise” of the Zermatt slopes and gesturing over the ridgeline toward Italy. These seem only minor concessions to the hundreds of faithful skiers who gleefully turned out for a weekday jaunt on the Swiss slopes near the Matterhorn on Thursday. On Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte confirmed Italian ski lifts will remain closed through Jan. 7. Austria will allow skiing to start on Dec. 24, but will limit the capacity of ski lifts until early January.