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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When a teacher refers a student to the principal's office or a principal suspends a student, parents might first receive a phone call and then have a conference with administrators and teachers. But what role do prior interactions and the relationships between families and school personnel play in successfully minimizing these instances of exclusionary discipline? …

Beeper Mini, a smart way of getting iMessage to work on Android devices, has been hitting dead end after dead end with Apple, but a recent appeal from one FCC member might signal an end to Apple’s messaging exclusivity. Brendan Carr, a lawyer and member of the Federal Communications Commission since 2017, has recently appealed to the Commission and subsequently posted it on X for public support. In this video, he states, “Apple’s wider set of exclusionary practices warrant scrutiny by antitrust and competition…

Disney's top gaming boss, Sean Shoptaw, has commented on why he believes Bethesda's upcoming Indiana Jones game being exclusive to Xbox is not an "overly exclusionary" move.According to Axios, Microsoft asked Disney to renegotiate the terms of the game's business arrangement following Microsoft's buyout of Bethesda parent company ZeniMax. The report said Microsoft sought a new deal to prevent the game from coming to PlayStation so it could be exclusive to Xbox on console and also have a PC release.…

Effect of exclusionary political elite discourse conditional on national identity. Credit: Nations and Nationalism (2023). DOI: 10.1111/nana.12985 The rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe leads some mainstream political parties to attempt to regain the support of voters by adopting far-right pro-nationalist and anti-immigrant stances. However, new research coming out of Germany and Israel suggests that this strategy…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Two recent studies indicate that school-level factors play a considerable role in racial disparities in school discipline. The first study, conducted primarily through a series of interviews, reveals disciplinary tensions between district leaders, school administrators, and teachers regarding disciplinary philosophy as well as discretion and accountability in the disciplinary referral…

Bette Midler has said “there was no intention” of being “transphobic” in her widely criticised tweet.The Hocus Pocus star was recently condemned by fans for a tweet many people said “demonises trans people”.Midler wrote on Twitter: “Women of the world! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even our name!“They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or ‘menstruators,’ and even ‘people with vaginas’! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you.”Many people,…