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Students around the world suffered historic setbacks in reading and math during the COVID-19 pandemic, with declines in test scores so widespread that the United States climbed in global rankings simply by falling behind less sharply, a new study finds.The state of global education was given a bleak appraisal in the Program for International Student Assessment, the first study to examine the academic progress of students in dozens of countries during the pandemic. Released Tuesday, it finds the average international math score fell by the equivalent of three-quarters
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As an urban farmer, Colin Lyman is acutely aware of the changes in the seasons and the change in the world that surrounds his community garden in the heart of Baltimore, Maryland.Lyman was not raised on a farm, and yet, here he finds himself, in the middle of Baltimore, tending to a quarter of an acre of land for The 6th Branch, a community nonprofit that aims to help the community through various volunteer projects. Theres no fence around our farm so anybody can stop by and get produce, Lyman said as he checked on seedlings that have been growing i
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