Eight seconds of glory

Count with me. Eight, seven, six, keep it up, five, four, three, don’t let go, two, one. Sure eight seconds might feel like a blip in time for most, but for the Southwestern warriors of the rodeo, eight seconds is an eternity. Go ahead and ask any rodeo cowboy how they got into this life,…

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70 percent of 4th-graders don’t read proficiently — what’s the problem?

Seventy. That’s the percentage of fourth graders in Arizona who don’t read proficiently. If that isn’t alarming enough, a whopping 56 percent of third-graders failed the reading portion of the AzMERIT test in 2017, meaning they scored neither proficient nor highly proficient. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 65 percent of fourth-graders nationwide…

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Fortnite. A lifestyle or an addiction?

  A new video game has taken the country by storm, and taking over people’s lives The game is called Fortnite and it has stolen the spotlight in the video game world and changed how people view video games. The premise is that 100 players parachute onto an island with only a pickaxe. Players can…

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