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Not just another show about a small town where strange things happen, Tales from the Loop has layers beneath its beautiful surface. Based on a narrative art book by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, the series is stunning to look at. Meticulous, symmetrical frames somehow give off a painterly feel. The interconnected townspeople are similarly nuanced, their stories exploring loneliness, aging and the impact of technology.
In Georgia´s Fulton County, 3% of the district´s 90,000 students participated in tutoring programs this fall.
Most of the tutoring was offered by paraprofessionals during the school day, with one hired to give intense support in each elementary school.
'These are some of the most difficult cases that a judge has to deal with because we're talking about pictures of sex abuse of children, we're talking about graphic descriptions that judges have to read and consider when they decide how to sentence in these cases,' she continued in an impassioned defense of her judicial record.
Brown, maintaining composure but seeming annoyed that she had been asked to answer for the school's reading list, shot back: 'Senator, I have not reviewed any of those books, any of those ideas, they don't come up in my work as a judge. Which I'm respectfully here to address in my work as a judge, which is evidenced from my near decade on the bench.'
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In each episode, four celebs attempt to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith in three challenges - the signature, the technical and the showstopper - in the hope of being crowned that episode's Star Baker.
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Amazon rescued The Expanse from the realm of canceled TV, bringing the series up to six seasons. Thank goodness it did, because The Expanse is smart sci-fi with realistic characters, high production values and a dash of detective noir. In a future where humanity has colonized the Solar System, a conspiracy threatens to start a cold war between the largest powers. A band of antiheroes find themselves at the center. Look forward to more space western themes in the consistently excellent later seasons.
"It works, it´s effective, it gets students to improve in their learning and catch up," said Amie Rapaport, a University of Southern California researcher who has analyzed students´ access to intensive tutoring.
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The Man in the High Castle imagines an alternate history where the Axis powers (Rome-Berlin-Tokyo) win World War II. Based on a Philip K. Dick novel, the series follows characters in the '60s who live in a parallel universe, where Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan control the US. But there's impossible newsreel footage surfacing of a world where Germany and Japan lose the war, causing some to rebel. To really hammer home its dystopia credentials, The Man in the High Castle is steered by producer Ridley Scott. Fully realized and with a focused plot, this is gripping TV.
Some parents said they didn´t know tutoring was available or . Some school systems have struggled to hire tutors. Other school systems said the small tutoring programs were intentional, part of an effort to focus on students with the greatest needs.
Harrison Tran, a 10th grader in Savannah, Georgia, struggled to make sense of algebra during remote learning.
Last year, his high school offered after-school help. But that wasn´t feasible for Harrison, who lives 30 minutes from school and couldn´t afford to miss his ride home.
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"The progress that he made in just a couple months last semester working with his tutor was kind of far beyond what he was grasping and doing at school," said Jessica Blalack, whose 7-year-old, Phoenix, opted in to after-school tutoring.
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