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Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain’s condition worsens, on oxygen support

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Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who tested positive for coronavirus earlier this week, will be shifted to a private hospital here after his condition worsened, a spokesperson for the Delhi government said Friday.

“Morning’s CT scan showed that the pneumonia patch in his lungs has increased. He has been on oxygen support and will be moved to Max Hospital Saket later in the day,” the spokesperson said, adding that his oxygen levels are low.

Mr. Jain had been admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital after he experienced high grade fever and a sudden drop in his oxygen levels on Monday night. While initial test reports found him negative for COVID-19, he tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.

His condition reportedly worsened last night. A source in the AAP said “he has pneumonia and the infection has spread in his lungs. He has been on oxygen support through the night and also today.”

LG Anil Baijal tweeted: “Praying for speedy recovery & good health of Hon’ble Minister, GNCTD Satyendar Jain ji.”

Mr. Jain’s portfolios were taken over by Manish Sisodia on Thursday . He is now minister without portfolio.

Wayland Free Public Library Events: June 27, 2022

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Community Corner

See what’s going on at the Wayland library the week of June 27.

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WAYLAND, MA — Here’s what’s happening at the Wayland Free Public Library the week of June 27, 2022.

ADULT SERVICES

Planning for Medicare: Countdown to 65

This program will help you better understand your Medicare health insurance options outside of your employer-sponsored coverage, whether or not you’re planning to retire. Topics include: Medicare and Medicare Parts A and B; enrollment timeline; Medigap plans that supplement Medicare coverage; Advantage plans, such as HMOs and PPOs; Part D prescription drug plans; plans and programs available to early retirees, such as COBRA. Lisa Farnham, Senior Plan Consultant at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, will present and answer your questions. Attend in-person or via Zoom. Register through our Events menu. Tuesday, June 28 at 7 p.m.

Writing for the LGBTQ Community

Join us for a conversation with local authors writing within and for the LGBTQ+ community. Bren Bataclan, Anna Burke, Federico Erebia, Jane C. Esther, and Sarah Jean Horowitz will discuss their books, their writing, and the impact they have on readers of all ages. Register here for the Zoom link. Hosted by the Ashland Public Library and co-sponsored by the Wayland and 14 other public libraries. Thursday, June 30 at 7 p.m.

CD Sort-of Giveaway

To gain space (and because they don’t circulate much anymore), we’re heavily cutting our music CD collection, especially classical. Before they get donated to Savers (because they’re also hard to sell), why not come in and pick out some for yourself? There’s no actual charge for them, though the Friends of the Library would greatly appreciate a donation. Just ask for Andy and he’ll bring them out. You’ll get some great music and we’ll know it found a good home

YOUTH SERVICES

SUMMER READING

Our 2022 Summer Reading Program Camp iRead: Read Beyond the Beaten Path has begun! Programming highlights include Circus Minimus, making a Rube Goldberg machine, live caterpillars from the Caterpillar Lab, and the Toe Jam Puppet Band. Kids in grades preK through grade 5 will keep track of their reading online or on paper logs and will earn badges for time reading and for attending programs. Every child who registers can pick up a goody bag at the library. Participants will also earn raffle tickets for prizes! Our Teen Reading Program has also started. Teens can participate in camp-themed programs at the library and read to earn gift packs and gift card prizes. Register for the kids Summer Reading Program and the Teen Summer Reading Program online at WaylandLibrary.Beanstack.org The Massachusetts Statewide Summer Library Program is funded by the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

FOR BABIES, TODDLERS AND PRESCHOOLERS

Outdoor Storytimes with Ms. Carly

Join Ms. Carly outdoors for storytime! Children and their caregivers will listen to stories, sing songs, and perform fun rhymes and movements. We will meet on the lawn behind the library. In the case of inclement weather we will hold the storytime in the Children’s Room. For babies through preschool age children, with caregivers. You can register here or from our online eventkeeper calendar. Tuesdays, July 12 , and July 26 at 10:30.

Outdoor Storytimes with Ms. Pam

Join Ms. Pam outdoors for stories, songs, puppets, and activities. We will meet on the lawn behind the library. For ages 2.5 to 5 years with an adult. You can register here or from our online eventkeeper calendar. Thursdays, June 30 , July 7 , and July 14 10:30 a.m.

FOR ELEMENTARY AGE CHILDREN . Paper Hand Puppets Craft

Kids will create simple paper hand puppets. For ages 4 and up. Please register HERE or from our online eventkeeper calendar. Tuesday, June 28, at 3:00 p.m.

4th/5th Grade Book Club (rescheduled from Tuesday, June 14)

We will be discussing Framed by James Ponti. We will meet in the Teen Loft. Register HERE or online from our eventkeeper calendar. For 4th and 5th graders. Questions or to get a copy of the book email Pam at [email protected] Tuesday, June 28 at 7 p.m.

Circus Minimus: One-Man Circus-in-a-Suitcase

This show gives everyone an opportunity to participate in an enthralling, whimsical celebration of the imagination. At Hannah Williams Playground, 71 Main Street, Wayland. Please register HERE or from our online eventkeeper calendar. For ages 3 and up. Wednesday, June 29, at 4:00 p.m.

Storybook Theatre

Children will listen to the folktale Jack and the Beanstalk, and then make simple costumes and props and act out the story. We will meet outside, weather permitting. Please register HERE or from our online eventkeeper calendar. For ages 5 and up. Thursday, June 30, at 3:30 p.m.

Make a Rube Goldberg Machine with Jay Mankita

Playful Engineers teaching artist Jay Mankita will present a workshop in which participants will have a chance to design, build, test, and play with Rube Goldberg “Machines”, and other chain reactions. For ages 4 and up. Please register HERE or from our online eventkeeper calendar. Wednesday, July 6, at 2:00 p.m.

Bubble Making Day

Kids can make their own bubble wands, test different bubble solutions, and try to create giant bubbles too! We will meet outside on the lawn behind the library. For ages 4 and up. Please register HERE or from our online eventkeeper calendar. Thursday, July 7, at 3:30 p.m. This event is weather permitting.

Sidewalk Chalk Painting

Kids will help create sidewalk chalk paint and then paint the sidewalk beside the library with fun designs. For ages 4 and up. Please register HERE or from our online eventkeeper calendar. Tuesday, July 12, at 3:30 p.m. This event is weather permitting.

Messy Art with Ms. Elise

Join Ms. Elise to make colorful spin art (using salad spinners and paint) and hanging sun catchers with glue and food coloring. Weather permitting, we will meet outside on the green lawn. For ages 4 and up. Please register HERE or from our online eventkeeper calendar. Wednesday, July 13, at 3:30 p.m.

Caterpillar Lab

Join The Caterpillar Lab in a free-exploration program and experience the incredible world of New England caterpillars. Bright foliage bursts with color and life, while our caterpillar experts are on hand to answer questions, share our experiences, and highlight the many unique stories found in our own backyards. For all ages. Please register HERE or from our online eventkeeper calendar. Drop in any time between 2:00-5:00p.m. Tuesday, July 19, at 2:00 p.m.

Animals Around the World: Desert vs. Rainforest

Joy from Joys of Nature will bring live animals to the Hannah Williams Park! She will teach kids about how these animals have adapted to survive in different habitats. Kids will get an opportunity to see the animals up close. Featured animals will include Penelope the alligator! At Hannah Williams Playground, 71 Main Street, Wayland. For ages 3 and up. Thursday, July 21. There will be two half hour shows. Please register HERE for the 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. show. Please register HERE for the 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. show.

FOR TEENS

Sun Catcher Mosaic Craft

Make a beautiful sun catcher mosaic to decorate your space! For ages 11 and up. Please register HERE . Thursday, July 14, at 3:30 p.m.

Camp Crafts for Teens

Missing summer camp this year, or wishing you could go back already? Make wish bracelets using cord and beads and no-sew patches from adhesive felt to escape to camp for the afternoon. Weather permitting, we will meet outside. For ages 11 and up. Please register HERE or from our online eventkeeper calendar. Wednesday, July 20, at 3:30 p.m.

SEEKING VOLUNTEER CODING TEACHERS

The Wayland Library Girls Who Code Club is looking for volunteer facilitators for the 2022-2023 academic year. Affiliated with the national Girls Who Code organization ( girlswhocode.com ) and its mission of closing the gender gap in technology, the Wayland club brings together girls for hands-on learning about code and technology.

The Wayland library plans to have two clubs: one for girls in grades 3-5 and one for girls in grades 6 and up. Enthusiasm for working with the girls is required; technical skill is helpful but not necessary, especially if you are willing to learn along with them. If you are interested, or would like to know more, please contact Head of Youth Services, Pam McCuen, at [email protected]

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TS Inter 1st, 2nd year result 2022: List of websites, apps to check score card

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Manabadi TS Telangana Inter 1st, 2nd year results 2022: The Telangana School Education Departmen t will release the inter 1st and 2nd year results on June 28. Students who appeared in class 11 and 12 board exams will be able to check their marks memo at the official website – results.cgg.gov.in.

The Telangana 2nd year board exams were held from May 7 to May 24, 2022, from 9 am to 12 pm in pen and paper mode.

TS Inter 1st, 2nd-year result 2022: Websites to check result

Apart from the official website of TSBIE, the inter board results can also be checked at other official and private websites as well as through mobile apps. Here’s a list of websites, apps that will hold TS Inter results 2022:

  • bse.telangana.gov.in
  • results.cgg.gov.in
  • tsbie.cgg.gov.in,
  • bie.telangana.gov
  • manabadi.com
  • T App Folio on Google Playstore

Candidates should note that the details that are required to fill on the official website are mentioned in the admit card, so students are requested to keep their hall tickets or admit card in hand to check their respective scores.

Last year, the Telangana board canceled the inter exams due to a surge in Covid-19 cases in the state. The students were evaluated on the basis of alternate assessment criteria and an overall pass percentage of 100 per cent was recorded by the board in 2021.

A total of 1,76,719 candidates managed to secure ‘A’ grade, 1,04,886 students secured “B” grade, 61,887 students secured “C” grade and 1,08,088 students secured “D” grade.

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Comprehending comprehension

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The results of the most recent international report on the state of Philippine education are dismal: Filipino students cannot comprehend what they read, even when they spend long hours in school. Moreover, remote learning has not improved the situation for the underprivileged: Students from educated families are best served by online schooling, but students from less-educated families are dropping out.

In recent years, there has been some work to help students score better on reading comprehension, which is often assessed with English-language texts. In Mother Tongue Language Instruction, non-native speakers learn English as a foreign language while studying other school subjects in the language that shaped their childhood. The system, adopted throughout the world, aims to help students understand English as a language so that they are not forced to translate a text while having to discover the text’s meaning simultaneously. While it has been used for a long while in the country, it is still not leading to better scores.

In some countries, reading comprehension is taught using topics that students like, through books that students choose, which supposedly encourages them to read on their own later. Robert Pondiscio of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute says otherwise: Recent research shows that comprehension increases not when students are interested in what they read per se, but when they first have strong foundational knowledge on what they are reading. This means they need instruction on topics such as the sciences and art, contributing to what the scholar E.D. Hirsch Jr. calls “cultural literacy.”

Hirsch’s work in education is groundbreaking. His 2003 paper explained the “fourth grade slump”: In the US, researchers found that students from low-income families tended to score lower on reading comprehension tests by the time they reached the 4th grade. The difference was more than just better nutrition. Students from high-income families tended to have reading fluency (wider vocabulary and knowledge of figures of speech) and cultural literacy (stronger foundational knowledge in all the sciences). They could read speedily through texts without having to figure out the meaning of individual words or what was being talked about, which allowed them more time to unearth the text’s meaning.

Hirsch, therefore, recommended more instruction in all sciences and art because these subjects could help students know about other cultures, enrich their knowledge and vocabulary, and therefore help them read future texts better regardless of their home environment.

This point is important because research shows that encouraging home learning also helps students make the most out of school. Students from more affluent households travel, engage in cultural activities, and discuss ideas with their likewise educated parents. However, students from less privileged families rely on school alone for learning. Pondiscio’s words are most apt here: “By limiting [students’] reading to the topics and interests they already possessed, we imposed a form of illiteracy on them.”

In short: challenge students; teach beyond their interests; let a nuanced understanding of the world help them read better.

All these possible solutions will still have to fight against a society that silences the youth and teaches them not to express disagreement.

We are a country awash in information, and our students need to know how to distinguish truth from lies, to read, and understand honestly. Unfortunately, regardless of social class, many of our students today live in families that attack them for having different ideas, order them to obey, and shoot down opportunities to discuss opinions simply. These students are increasingly relying on school alone for education and emotional support.

We see the painful results of this approach in how people behave online: they react to quote cards and headlines without reading the complete article first; they refuse to read sources shared with them to help them understand an issue; they condemn those who question.

Perhaps, our country’s problem is not only low reading comprehension. It is a society that pounds subservience into children until they forget the liberation through knowledge that school once offered.

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TS Telangana Inter 1st, 2nd year result 2022 declared: Girls outperform boys; 65.86% pass percent recorded

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The Telangana Intermediate results-2022 were announced Tuesday by Education minister Sabitha Indra Reddy at the Board of Intermediate Education headquarters in Hyderabad. Of the total 9 lakh students who appeared in the exams, 63.32 per cent of students passed intermediate first-year exams and 67.16 per cent of students passed the second-year exams. The results are now available on tsbie.cgg.gov.in, results.cgg.gov.in and examresults.ts.nic.in.

#Telangana Inter results: @IndianExpress

2nd year:

— Rahul V Pisharody (@rahulvpisharody) June 28, 2022

Congratulating the passed students, the Minister noted that given the two years of the Covid pandemic the exams were conducted with 70 per cent syllabus and counselors were deployed at 2,500 inter colleges to help students who faced stress. She said that advanced intermediate supplementary exams will commence on August 1 and the results will be announced by month-end. The exams were conducted at over 1,500 centres offline after in-person classes began in September 2021. Students can pay fees for advanced supplementary exams as well as for recounting and re-verification from June 30 onwards.

Inter first-year results Inter second-year results
Appeared: 464892
Passed: 294378
Pass percentage: 63.32 %
Boys Pass percentage: 54.25 %
Girls Pass percentage – 72.33 % 		Appeared:  4,42,895
Passed: 2,97,458
Pass percentage:  67.16 %
Boys pass percentage: 59.21 %
Girls pass percentage: 75.28 %

As many as 4,64,892 students appeared in first-year intermediate exams. Of them, 2,94,378 secured pass marks. Among boys, 2,31,682 appeared for the exams and 1,25,686 have received pass marks. This is a pass per cent of 54.25. Among girls, 2,33,210 appeared for the exams. 1,68,692 girls secured pass marks taking the pass per cent to 72.33 per cent. As many as 1,93,925 students in the first year have received an A grade. In first year results, Medchal district topped the state with a pass percent of 76 per cent, followed by Hanamkonda 74 per cent.

Regarding second-year intermediate exams, as many as 2,97,458 students of the total 4,42,895 students who appeared in the exams have secured pass marks. This is 67.16 per cent. Boys secured a pass percentage of 59.21 per cent with 1,32,398 of the total 2,23,624 students securing pass marks.

Among girls, 1,65,060 of the total 2,19,271 girls who appeared for the exams have secured pass marks taking the pass per cent to 75.28 per cent. As many as 1,59,422 students in the second year have received an A grade. Medchal district again topped the state in second-year results too with a pass percentage of 78 per cent, followed by KomaramBheem Asifabad at 77 per cent.

The Minister also stated that government colleges have performed better than their private counterparts. In the first-year results, 73.3 per cent of students of government colleges have received pass marks compared to 66.5 per cent among private colleges. Similarly, government colleges have secured 78.25 per cent pass among second-year students as against 68.3 per cent of private college students.

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