Melissa Barrera is making waves in Hollywood. After starring as Usnavi's love interest, Vanessa, in Lin-Manuel Miranda's “In the Heights” movie, the 32-year-old has continued to shine on screen with roles in “Scream” and the upcoming “Carmen” and “Scream VI” films.
Off screen, though, Barrera is happily married to musician Paco Xavier Zazueta. According to Variety, the couple first met while they were contestants on a Mexican reality musical talent show called “La Academia” in 2011. ..
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Just an Appreciation Post of Melissa Barrera and Paco Zazueta’s Swoon-Worthy Romance
What We Know About Beyoncé and JAY-Z’s 3 Kids, Blue Ivy, Rumi, and Sir
Look up the term “power couple” in the dictionary and you might find a photo of parents of three, Beyoncé and JAY-Z. While Beyoncé has posted tons of photos of their eldest daughter over the years, she's been a lot more private when it comes to sharing snapshots of her twins, only showing them off here and there.
Of course, all three kids have been in the spotlight since before they were born. Beyoncé famously announced her first pregnancy during a 2011 performance of “Love on Top” at the ..
24 Shows Like “Gilmore Girls” For When You’re Craving a Comfort Watch – or a Bit of Drama
To the devoted “Gilmore Girls” fan, an episode of Amy Sherman-Palladino's sweet and savvy series is like a warm blanket or cup of cocoa on a cold night, and for many, it's hard to imagine life before Kirk's hilarious mishaps or Emily Gilmore's telling glances. Fans were blessed enough to get a sweet but much-too-brief reboot a couple years back, but like Lorelai with coffee, many have still found themselves craving more in the time since then.
Similar to many shows from the ..
Avril Lavigne and Tyga Spotted Kissing at Paris Fashion Week
Avril Lavigne appears to be moving on from Mod Sun with Tyga. Two weeks after the “Complicated” singer's rep confirmed to POPSUGAR that she and Sun had ended their engagement, Lavigne was spotted kissing Tyga at Paris Fashion Week. On Monday, the pair were seen cozying up at the Mugler x Hunter Schafer party, seemingly confirming their rumored romance. Reps for Lavigne and Tyga did not immediately respond to POPSUGAR's request for comment.
Speculation that Lavigne and Tyga were possib..
Worried about ChatGPT and cheating? Here are 4 things teachers should know
In his university teaching days, Mark Schneider watched as his students’ research sources moved from the library to Wikipedia to Google. With greater access to online information, cheating and plagiarism became easier. So Schneider, who taught at State University of New York, Stony Brook for 30 years, crafted essay prompts in ways that he hoped would deter copy-paste responses. Even then, he once received a student essay with a bill from a paper-writing company stapled to the back.
Teachers probably spend more time than they’d like trying to thwart students who are able to cheat in creative ways. And many educators are alarmed that ChatGPT, a new and widely available artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by OpenAI, offers yet another way for students to sidestep assignments. ChatGPT uses machine learning and large language modeling to produce convincingly human-like writing. Because users can input prompts or questions into ChatGPT and get paragraphs of text, it has become a p..
3 years since the pandemic wrecked attendance, kids still aren’t showing up to school
When this school year began, Issac Moreno just couldn’t get himself to go. During the pandemic, he’d gotten used to learning from his family’s home in Los Angeles. Then, last fall, he started junior high, five days a week, in person.
“It was a lot,” he says.
The last fully normal school year Issac remembers is third grade. Now, he’s in seventh, with multiple classes each day, a busier schedule and new classmates.
Issac’s mother, Jessica Moreno, says it’s been a struggle to get Issac back into the routine of going to school. Her eyes well up as she describes it: “Three days a week or four days a week, he will say to me, ‘I’m sick. I don’t feel OK. Can you just pick me up? I don’t want to be here.’ ”
She says Issac has already missed 10 days of school this year, which means he’s at risk of becoming chronically absent.
And Issac is not alone. Before the pandemic, about 8 million U.S. students were considered chronically absent, according to the research group Attendance Works. That’s..
These students raised thousands to make their playground wheelchair-friendly
When he’d go outside at recess, John Buettner would dream of learning the monkey-bars. The fifth-grader uses a wheelchair, so they aren’t accessible to him—in fact, most of the playground at Glen Lake Elementary School isn’t.
Meanwhile, Betsy Julien would look out from her classroom window as she ate lunch, at the students in their wheelchairs, and thought, “Our playground is not set up for everybody in the school to play and have fun.”
Julien’s own son is a third-grader at Glen Lake, in the Minneapolis suburb of Hopkins, and he uses a wheelchair, too. “So, this dream and passion of being able to have an accessible piece of equipment has been with me for a long time.”
Now, thanks to this teacher and her students, that dream is about to come true in a bigger way than she ever imagined.
Last fall, Julien and a few of her colleagues applied for, and won, a grant for an accessible swing and merry-go-round. The grant fell $35,000 short of the amount the school needed, and so Julien came..
How much does it cost to produce a community college graduate?
Community colleges say they can’t help the neediest students get through college successfully without more funding. But these institutions, which educate 10 million students a year or 44% of all undergraduates, have a terrible track record; fewer than half their students end up earning degrees. Obviously, all those college dropouts aren’t improving local work forces. And state lawmakers aren’t keen to write community colleges blank checks without accountability.
The problem is that no one really knows how much it costs to educate a community college student, or exactly how much more should be spent on the neediest ones, from young adults who are the first in their families to go to college, known as first-generation students, to older adults who are juggling a job and children of their own along with school, often called “nontraditional” students.
A first attempt at finding an answer was the publication of a paper in October 2022 that examined the costs of Texas community colleges. ..
Teacher turnover hits new highs across the U.S.
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. This story was co-published with USA Today.
The data is in: More teachers than usual exited the classroom after last school year, confirming longstanding fears that pandemic-era stresses would prompt an outflow of educators. That’s according to a Chalkbeat analysis of data from eight states — the most comprehensive accounting of recent teacher turnover to date.
In Washington state, more teachers left the classroom after last school year than at any point in the last three decades. Maryland and Louisiana saw more teachers depart than any time in the last decade. And North Carolina saw a particularly alarming trend of more teachers leaving mid-school year.
The turnover increases were not massive. But they were meaningful, and the churn could affect schools’ ability to help students make up for learning loss in the wake of the pandemic. This data also suggests that spiking stress lev..
Microsoft makes Outlook free to use for Mac
You now have another major alternative to the built-in Mail app on your Mac. Microsoft has made Outlook for Mac free to use. You previously needed either a Microsoft 365 subscription or an Office purchase to use the email client. It's available now through the Mac App Store.
Microsoft unsurprisingly pitches this as a good complement to Outlook for iOS. You can hand off an email draft to your iPhone if you haven't finished writing it on your Mac, for instance. An upcoming Profiles featu..