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The film
Jurassic Park, based on Michael Crighton’s extraordinary 1990 novel, gave us accessible dinosaurs and spawned an industry in cuddly T-Rexs, Dino Babies and fierce plastic models essential to every toybox. While the name Jurassic has remained in everyone’s verbal toolkit ever after, few knew what it meant other than some time very long ago.
In truth, it’s still a puzzle. Try asking anyone who knows their geological timescale and you’ll soon be confounded by Eras, Periods, Epochs, a blizzard of strange names ending in -zoic, -cene, -ian or worse, and mind-numbing depths of time. I had the timescale on my wall for years and never managed to master it.
Few dyslexic students benefiting from an online tool that’s costing Texas millions
State says service will help thousands, but advocates believe money could be better spent
Birdville ISD Dyslexia Coordinator Emily Rivera works with Birdville Elementary School fourth grader Delilah Anaya, 10, from the district s headquarters in Haltom City, Texas, on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021.(Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor)
When the first invoice for a new special education tool arrived this past fall, accounting officials at the Texas Education Agency questioned what exactly the state was being billed for and whether they should process the payment.
The charge marked the first installment in an emergency contract between the state and Maryland-based education company AmplioSpeech that could cost taxpayers up to $6.9 million the first year. The company was brought in to create a virtual program that allows dyslexic students to receive help during the pandemic.