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2 other Memphis officers were relieved of duty, and 3 fire department workers are fired as new details emerge from the deadly police beating of Tyre Nichols [Breaking news update, published at 6:26 p.m. ET] A total of seven Memphis police officers were relieved of duty the day after Tyre Nichols was beaten by officers and hospitalized, police said Monday. Five officers have since been fired, and two other officers are still subjects of an internal investigation. Earlier, police named Officer Preston Hemphill as one of the officers who remains on administrative leave. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/us/tyre-nichols-protests-monday/index.html

Priscilla Presley is challenging the validity of her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s will. In a court filing obtained by CNN, attorneys for Priscilla Presley filed a petition disputing a 2016 amendment to her daughter’s will. The petition states that Lisa Marie Presley removed her mother and her former business manager, Barry Siegel, as co-trustees and replaced them with her children Riley and Benjamin Keough. Benjamin Keough later died in 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/entertainment/lisa-marie-presley-estate/index.html

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Fallout from the deadly police beating of Tyre Nichols now includes a sixth Memphis officer removed from duties, demands for more criminal charges against officers and calls for nationwide police reform. Officer Preston Hemphill “was relieved of duty with the other officers” involved in the January 7 encounter with Nichols, Memphis police Maj. Karen Rudolph said Monday. Hemphill has actually been on administrative leave since the beginning of the investigation, Memphis police spokesperson Kimberly Elder told CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/us/tyre-nichols-protests-monday/index.html

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called for Israel and the Palestinians to take "urgent steps" to restore calm amid escalating violence. Speaking in Jerusalem, Mr Blinken reiterated US support for a two-state solution as "the best way" to bring security to the two sides. Israel's new government opposes the creation of a Palestinian state. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64423270

Pakistan mosque blast: Police targeted in attack that kills 59 At least 59 people have been killed by a bomb that apparently targeted policemen praying in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. The mosque is within the tightly-guarded police headquarters area. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said "terrorists want to create fear by targeting those who perform the duty of defending Pakistan". https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64451936

As someone who supervised teachers for over 25 years and watched both live and taped online classes, I can tell you that it most certainly does not provide a window into what goes on in a classroom. A classroom is infinitely more interactive than an online class. Again, one is like watching a scene from a battle and the other is like being in one. Drawing assumptions from a few minutes of viewing an online class is like diagnosing a disease from watching a medical drama on television. Teachers are trained to teach. They know their subject material and they have a curriculum to follow. It is extremely difficult to cram all the requirements of the curriculum into the actual time before exams and the effectiveness of the teacher is in part, measured by how well the students perform on the exams. There was also an chat line line for parents and the teacher to give help, advise, suggestions and feedback from the parents about how well the lessons were going. This was mostly for those parents who were trying to help their children with their homework. A 3rd grade math teacher simply doesn't decide to throw a little Calculus into the curriculum while trying to teach fractions. If they did, they would most likely end up not teaching for long.

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On line classes are in no way a representation of what happens in a classroom any more than seeing a movie is representative of reality.

After many years of teaching and being involved in curriculum development, I can assure you, it is what is in the curriculum that is important, not what books are in the library. The vast majority of young learners and high school students don't do much book reading beyond what is required and the occasional exploring of material for a term paper. The curriculum is invariably designed by the relevant Education department and in most instances the recommended texts are mandated by them. The struggle for most teachers is to get students to read anything. The only books I ever had to confiscate were the Japanese comic books that were immensely popular among students and being read in class. I never kept the books, but would take them away during class and return them after. The school policy was to take them away and keep them, but I always figured if I can get them to read comic books it's a shorter leap to actually reading any book.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that allowing Russia to compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris would amount to showing that "terror is somehow acceptable". He said he had raised the issue with French President Emmanuel Macron. Moscow must not be allowed to use the Olympics for propaganda, he added. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64448808

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Former President Donald Trump took aim at Ron DeSantis Saturday, claiming the Florida governor and his team are “trying to rewrite history” regarding their Covid-19 pandemic response, and called the potential presidential run by his GOP rival “very disloyal.” “There are Republican governors that did not close their states,” Trump told reporters while aboard his plane. “Florida was closed for a long period of time.” https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/28/politics/desantis-trump-disloyal-covid-record/index.html

Olesya Krivtsova sports an anti-Putin tattoo on one ankle and a bracelet that tracks her every move on the other. The 19-year-old from Russia’s Arkhangelsk region must wear the device while she is under house arrest after she was charged over social media posts that authorities say discredit the Russian army and justify terrorism. Russian officials added Krivtsova to the list of terrorists and extremists, on a par with ISIS, al Qaeda and the Taliban, for posting an Instagram story about the explosion on the Crimean bridge in October that also criticized Russia for invading Ukraine. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/29/europe/russian-teen-social-media-ukraine-war-intl-cmd/index.html

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The global energy transition has reached a pivot point, in which fossil fuels have likely peaked in their use for producing electricity and are about to enter a period of decline. This is the idea at the heart of a new report from RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute), a nonprofit that does research and advocacy about the transition. The lead author, energy analyst Kingsmill Bond, makes a case that wind and solar power are going through growth that looks almost exactly like the trend lines for the early stages of transformative products and industries, across technologies and eras, like automobiles and smartphones. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/01/fossil-fuel-power-plants-wind-solar-clean-energy/

Donald Trump derided electric vehicles as inefficient and “ridiculous” during a stump speech as South Carolina’s Governor Henry McMaster, a proponent of EVs, stood behind him. The Republican governor invited the former president to the state capitol for an event introducing the Trump campaign’s South Carolina leadership team on Saturday. This was Trump’s second campaign event of the day, following an afternoon speech in New Hampshire. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-trashes-electric-vehicles-mcmaster-1234670312/

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13 Teachers across all grade levels in Florida’s Manatee County School District are closing off students’ access to their classroom libraries due to the Florida books ban. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that teachers have been instructed to remove all books from their classroom libraries that have not yet been approved by a certified media specialist. Kevin Chapman, the district’s chief of staff, made the announcement on Monday, January 23. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that teachers have been instructed to remove all books from their classroom libraries that have not yet been approved by a certified media specialist.

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What is the SCORPION unit, the Memphis police task force at the center of Tyre Nichols’ death? The Memphis Police Department unit at the center of Tyre Nichols' death earlier this month has now come under scrutiny from critics over its approach to fighting crime. The SCORPION unit, which stands for Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace in Our Neighborhoods, was announced in October 2021 and launched a month later. It encompasses 40 officers split into four teams who patrol "high crime hotspots" throughout the city, the police department announced in November 2021. https://abcnews.go.com/US/scorpion-unit-memphis-police-task-force-center-tyre/story?id=96720313