Category UK, Europe

Chronic student absenteeism rates could be halved within five years if schools, families, and governments work together, a panel of education leaders and policymakers said during an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) panel discussion in Washington. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, too…

NEW YORK—Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.com, has died at age 83. Riggio died…