By : Kevin Rutherford Source : Billboard Debuts take up the No. 1 spots on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums, Alternative Albums and Hard Rock Albums charts dated Oct. 30, thanks to strong numbers for Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres and Ice Nine Kills’ Welcome to Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2. Spheres, Coldplay’s ninth studio album, bows at No. 1 on Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums with 57,000 equivalent album units earned in the Oct. 15-21 tracking period, according to MRC Data. It’s the Chris...
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By : Zachary Crockett Source : The Hustle Last week, Jim Mayers, a high school composition teacher in Boston, wanted to take his 11th graders on a field trip. Per the usual protocol, he tried to book one of the district’s many chartered yellow school buses. But this time, a problem arose: There were no drivers. To make the trip happen, the school had to hire a private party bus complete with neon lights and stripper poles. In Mayers’ home state of Massachusetts, the school bus driver shortage has gotten so severe that the...
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By : Rob Litturst Source : The Hustle TikTok is causing problems for teachers, and it's bigger than just a classroom distraction Remember that shameful, uneasy feeling on the way to the principal's office while awaiting punishment for acting up? TikTok is probably feeling some of that right about now. The largest teachers union in the US requested that TikTok, along with Facebook and Twitter, do more to stop the spread of viral challenges and misinformation that have put the safety of educators at risk, per The Wall Street...
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By : Monique Beals Source : The Hill Math and reading test scores for the country's 13-year-olds have dropped sharply in comparison to numbers from 2012, with some of the lowest-scoring test takers falling the furthest behind. Data from the the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed that while 2020 average scores in reading and mathematics for 13-year-olds marked an improvement from the NAEP's earliest results in the 1970s, scores had declined since 2012. U.S. News and World Report reported that this was the first...
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By : Tim Ingham Source : Music Business Worldwide Some people were uncertain how Adele might adapt to a streaming-dominated music industry. They needn’t have worried. Spotify has confirmed that the British superstar’s comeback single, Easy On Me, broke the global record for day-one streams on its platform after its release on Friday (October 15). She achieved the same feat on Amazon Music. Spotify hasn’t announced the exact number of streams that Easy On Me – Adele’s first new release for over five years...
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By : Juliet Bennett Rylah Source : The Hustle South Korean drama “Squid Game” has exploded in meme-form on the internet and, according to Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, may become Netflix’s most popular original series ever. Squid game! Sounds fun? Wrong! In “Squid Game,” people play simple children’s games, like “Red Light, Green Light.” If they win all 6 games, they get a piece of a ~$38m pot. Lose even 1 and they’re dead. It might sound like torture-porn a la “Saw,”...
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By : Rob Litterst Source : The Hustle Playtime has been moving online for years now. In January 2020, the CDC reported the following screen time statistics: US children between 8-10 spend an average of 6 hours per day in front of a screen US children between 11-14 spend an average of 9 hours per day in front of a screen Despite the pandemic accelerating the trend, Lego is proving that kids still have an appetite for analog toys. The company is already considered the top toymaker in the world and cemented that status...
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By : IE Staff Source : Inside Edition Inside Edition visited student participants of Patterson High School who are participating in one of the first truck-driving programs for high schoolers in the U.S. Hiring teenagers might help with the nationwide truck driver shortage, but you still don't generally see them behind the wheel of a big rig. Now that's changing. Inside Edition spoke to a California 17-year-old, named Isabella, as she trained behind the wheel. She’s one of several teens at Patterson High School who are...
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