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Raising school-aged grandkids: how to handle homework and school in a digital age

(Aging Untold) — For some older adults, this chapter of life was supposed to mean retirement. Instead, they are raising school-age kids again, navigating online portals, teacher apps and school meetings that look nothing like the school they remember. The Aging Untold experts are sharing how older caregivers can manage the digital side of modern schooling — and why their experience still matters. When the day-to-day of supporting a child’s education starts to feel overwhelming, older adults should know they are not alone. “I think it might be important to know that you may be the oldest member in the PTA, but you’re not probably the most confused,” gerontologist “Sam” Cradduck said. “There are many younger parents that are still trying to learn to navigate the online portals and the tablets that their kids have, not having textbooks.” “You may be the oldest member in the PTA, but you’re…

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Still: bedtime stories without another subscription

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady. Still is a small bedtime-story app for people who would rather read something quiet than spend another half hour choosing what to read. Pick a woodland cottage, a seaside village, a night train, or a quiet bookshop. Choose a mood and an approximate reading length. Add a detail if you want: a sleepy cat, a familiar name, the smell of bread. Still asks a local model to write the story and saves it to a little library. The reader has larger-text controls and a plain-text download. There are no accounts, streaks, recommendations, or next-story countdowns. Closing the app is a perfectly good outcome. The included sample lets you try the reader without installing a model. It is labeled as a prewritten sample. New stories require Ollama and the downloaded model; the sample is not a pretend generation…

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You Can Be Your Career-Obsessed Friends’ On-Ramp To Motherhood

Historically low birth rates signify not just fewer babies but less happiness. Births in the United States dropped to a new record low last year, according to data the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this month. While population researchers tout the “policy success” of reducing teen pregnancies, the more important numbers concern births among the 20-and-up crowd. The only group to see a birth rate increase was 30- to 44-year-olds, in many cases with the assistance of ethically fraught artificial reproductive technology. Meanwhile, women in their peak fertility window birthed fewer children: In just one year, the birth rate for 20- to 24-year-olds dropped 6 percent and for 25- to 29-year-olds dropped 4 percent. Researchers say the data indicates more ladies are delaying motherhood until they feel “financially stable,” have finished earning their desired degrees, have…

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Dashboard Analyzes Credential Earnings Premiums by State

Under a new federal test, college programs will have to show their graduates earn at least more than an adult with a high school diploma in order to access federal student loans. Four years after graduation, Delaware’s median undergraduate credential earner made double what the median Delaware high school graduate did, according to a new online data tool. But Colorado’s undergrad completers only made 55 percent more than high school diploma or equivalent earners. The site also shows how much those salaries exceed the median pay for high school diploma earners in each state, a figure called the earnings premium. And it reveals the rarer cases where those who didn’t go to college at all made more. “It’s very nuanced within these data, but you do have some very interesting numbers when it comes to how much of a premium does a college degree provide,” said Michael Itzkowitz, the HEA Group’s…

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