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  2. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included. An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal ...

  3. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life - Wikipedia

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    Middle School: Get Me Out of Here! Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is a realistic fiction novel by James Patterson that serves as the beginning of Patterson's Middle School series. [1] Published in the United States by Little, Brown and Company on June 27, 2011, the book follows sixth grader Rafe Khatchadorian as he begins middle ...

  4. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (film) - Wikipedia

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    Box office. $23 million [1] Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is a 2016 American live-action/animated family comedy film directed by Steve Carr and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Kara Holden, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts. The film stars Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob ...

  5. The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school

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    Early in the pandemic, school staff went door-to-door to reach and ... public school enrollment fell by 710,000 students between the 2019-20 and 2021-22 school years in the 21 states plus ...

  6. Students fell behind during the pandemic. How 1 educator is ...

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    Nationwide, chronic absenteeism — kids missing at least 10% of a school year — was 75% higher in 2023 than before the pandemic, according to the American Enterprise Institute.

  7. Tanganyika laughter epidemic - Wikipedia

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    The laughter epidemic began on January 30, 1962, at a mission-run boarding school for girls in Kashasha. It started with three girls and spread throughout the school, affecting 95 of the 159 pupils, aged 12–18. [2] [3] Symptoms lasted from a few hours to 16 days, averaging around 7 days. [4] The teaching staff were unaffected and reported ...

  8. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in the United ...

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    This was a historic event in the history of the United States schooling system because it forced schools to shut-down. At the very peak of school closures, COVID-19 affected 55.1 million students in 124,000 public and private U.S. schools. [1] The effects of widespread school shut-downs were felt nationwide, and aggravated several social ...

  9. Worst national reading and math scores in decades show ... - AOL

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    An analysis in summer 2021 by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. showed that by the end of the 2020-21 school year, the pandemic had left students an average of five months behind in math and four ...