A gunman opened fire at a bus near in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, early Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in a suspected Palestinian attack that came a week after members of the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad ramped up their aggression against Israel.
National Education Association president Becky Pringle on Thursday warned that the U.S. teacher shortage has spiraled into a “five-alarm crisis,” with nearly 300,000 teaching and support positions left unfilled and policymakers taking desperate — and in some cases, questionable — measures to staff classrooms.
In an ideal world, rational people who encounter new evidence that contradicts their beliefs would evaluate the facts and change their views accordingly. But that’s generally not how things go in the real world. Partly to blame is a cognitive bias that can kick in when people encounter evidence that runs counter to their beliefs. Instead of reevaluating what they’ve believed up until now, people tend to reject the incompatible evidence. Psychologists call this phenomenon belief perseverance. Everyone can fall prey to this ingrained way of thinking.
Buying a home in the US is the least affordable it's been in 33 years as mortgage rates soar this year and home prices hit record highs. The National Association of Realtors revealed Friday that its housing-affordability index - a metric that uses median existing-home prices, median family incomes and average mortgage rates to calculate home affordability - fell to 98.5 percent in June, the lowest level since 1989.
You have a vision for your career and where you’d like to end up. You may even know what to do to get there. But there’s an obstacle in the way: your current job.
There is a growing renunciation among Arab youth of terrorist Hamas and the militant Islamic Jihad's actions in Gaza against Israel.
