Texas lawmakers send Gov. Greg Abbott a bill that funds virtual learning, but could leave out many students of color

Candace Hunter's children are home-schooled due to the pandemic and have been struggling to. The Texas Senate gave final approval to Senate Bill 15, which would ...

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Records lawsuit targets state of Florida over COVID-19 data

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A Democratic state lawmaker and a non-profit group have filed a lawsuit alleging the Florida Department of Health has violated ...

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Tokyo Game Show 2021 schedule includes Xbox, Square Enix livestreams

This year's all-digital Tokyo Game Show 2021 will include announcement livestreams from Xbox, Square Enix, Capcom and Sega.

A schedule for the event includes a 50-minute Xbox livestream to be held on the show's opening day, 30th September, which promises "some exclusive news and content to share".

A new Square Enix Presents livestream will then follow on 1st October, with a 50-minute slot dedicated to "the latest news about our upcoming titles".

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PlayerUnknown departs PUBG company to found new studio

Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene has left PUBG parent company Krafton to set up a new indie studio, PlayerUnknown Productions.

It has been a couple of years since Greene was involved in development of PUBG. In 2019, he launched PUBG Special Projects, a new Amsterdam-based division which had been working on a fresh project codenamed Prologue.

Greene's new company is also based in Amsterdam and looks like it may continue working on Prologue, with Krafton investing in the new company with a minority stake.

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Someone should make a game about: teaching

Over the years I've sat in my fair share of fictional classrooms, mainly in Persona 5, where you answer pop-quiz type questions and avoid projectiles between stints moonlighting as a masked vigilante. But have we ever seen life from the other side of the desk? I propose that someone should make a game about the day-to-day school life of a teacher, trying to manage their time and energy to better their students, which would shine a great light into pedagogy (there's your word of the day).

When it comes to teaching, things like union strikes over pay and lengthy holiday time relative to other jobs may come to mind, but being a school teacher is about so much more than that. As a school teacher you are interacting with so many different people, not just pupils, and it's crucial that you form strong bonds with these people to thrive in the role.

Imagine the social management aspects of Persona 5 on a colossal scale. There are faculty staff, departmental heads, heads of year groups and overall heads of the school. And that's just internally. Liaise with someone to deliver a talk to your students, negotiate prices and arrange logistics for a field trip, try to acquire the latest textbooks and teaching materials - it's a vocation that sees you dealing with so many people every day. Of course there are only a certain number of hours in a school day, and a game could see you choose which bonds you'd best like to focus on, perhaps with a real-time aspect, so you could truly feel each second ticking by.

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Texas Senate gives initial approval to spend nearly $2 billion on border security

Proponents of House Bill 9 denounced the Biden administration's approach to border security, saying the state had no choice but to step in to ramp up ...

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Texas law banning abortion as early as six weeks goes into effect as the US Supreme Court takes no action

Information and diagrams inside a medical room at a Planned Parenthood in south Austin on Jan. Senate Bill 8 would prohibit abortions as early as six weeks into ...

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