Seven Days

Vermont Teacher Turns School Project Into Successful Math App

MathFactLab, founded by former Essex Westford elementary school teacher Mike Kenny, now has more than 1 million users all ...
The Washington Post

VA’s disability program is an ‘honor system.’ These veterans are defrauding it.

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Kinsley Kilpatrick put on a convincing show. During visits to Atlanta VA ...
The New York Times

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the mayor’s race, plans if elected to replace the selective program, which became a symbol of segregation in public schools. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and ...
WFMZ-TV

Berks election board responds to federal lawsuit involving write-in candidate for Lyons Borough

READING, Pa. – The Berks County Board of Elections heard an update Thursday on a legal case which has been appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Board solicitor Cody L. Kauffman ...
ProPublica

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Current. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Update, Sept. 24, ...
The Chicago Maroon

UChicago to Overhaul Undergraduate Writing Program and Introduce New Core Writing Course

Starting in autumn quarter 2025, the University will begin a multi-year restructuring of the undergraduate writing program, which had previously run concurrently with the humanities Core sequence.
The Stanford Daily

One year later: Where the creative writing program stands

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...
Washington City Paper

Making a Zine: Keeping D.C. Music and Its Meaning in Print

Ambrose Nzams keeps Joint Custody’s shelves stocked with new and used zines, including Demystification, Nzams’ own zine that he co-created with Paula Martinez. Credit: Darrow Montgomery Titles that ...
The Gazette

Athan Kaliakmanis goes from one Big Ten football program to another to make his mark

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. He was the future. That’s why he originally decided to go to the University of Minnesota. “I wanted to ...
Sportskeeda

"Boycott time!!" - Internet reacts to viral video of Starbucks refusing to print or write Charlie Kirk's name on orders

Charlie Kirk speaks following the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump during an event at Capital One Arena on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Image via Getty Images) A video of a ...
Wired

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...