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What does the noun homework mean?

There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun homework . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

How common is the noun homework ?

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British english, u.s. english, where does the noun homework come from.

Earliest known use

The earliest known use of the noun homework is in the mid 1600s.

OED's earliest evidence for homework is from 1653, in the writing of Edmund Chillenden, parliamentarian army officer and General Baptist leader.

homework is formed within English, by compounding.

Etymons: home n. 1 , work n.

Nearby entries

• homeward-bounder, n. 1837–
• homeward-bound pennant, n. 1853–
• homewardly, adv. 1797–
• homewards, adv. & adj. Old English–
• homeware, n. 1782–
• home waters, n. 1838–
• home wear, n. 1836–
• home-whining, n. a1657
• home wind, n. 1732–
• home-woe, n. 1838–
• homework, n. 1653–
• homework club, n. 1900–
• homework diary, n. 1973–
• homeworker, n. 1843–
• homeworking, n. 1844–
• home-working, adj. 1850–
• home worship, n. 1849–
• homewort, n. Old English–
• home-wreck, n. 1845–
• home-wrecker, n. 1878–
• home-wrecking, n. 1878–

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homework, n. was revised in September 2011.

homework, n. was last modified in July 2023.

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What Is Homework?

Homework is work that teachers give students to complete outside of the school day. Homework is meant to provide students with practice for what was learned in school or an extension of what was done in class. Students are expected to complete the homework and return to school with the completed homework assignment.

Why Do Teachers Give Homework?

Most teachers give students homework so that they can practice something that was taught to them during class.

For example, if a teacher is teaching students how to add decimal numbers then the homework assignment would be for students to try adding decimals at home independently.

In my science class I never give my students homework that isn’t meaningful or practice towards a learning standard.

Gone are the days of giving homework that is “busy work”.

Also, when students return the following day their homework assignment is incorporated into the lesson so they quickly figure out that completing homework is necessary.

Some teachers, myself included, will use homework as a formative assessment.

If you are unsure what formative assessments are then you need to check out this article I wrote recently.

What Does Homework Look Like?

Homework can be almost anything.

Some examples of homework may include a simple worksheet to complete, a long term project, research, reading, a journal entry, completing something online, a drawing, or the continuation of something started in school, and just about anything else.

Homework isn’t limited to one specific thing.

With my eight grade students I have assigned videos for them to watch, creating a slideshow, completing a CER (more about the CER here) , conduct a survey for data collection, and more.

I have even had them collect leaves to identify the following day in our science class!

If you are a teacher reading this make sure to make your homework assignments interesting and worthwhile, don’t just assign homework as busy work.

Do Teachers Have To Give Homework?

No, teachers don’t have to give homework.

Usually teachers have discretion whether or not they are going to assign homework.

Personally, the principal or school district I work for has no idea how often I assign homework or what I assign for homework.

This decision to give or not give homework solely comes down to the classroom teacher.

The Importance Of Homework

The importance of homework is a heavily debated topic these days.

On one hand you have teachers that will say it is necessary that students continue learning outside the classroom in order to be more successful inside the classroom.

On the other hand some teachers will say that homework isn’t necessary as long as students are working hard during the school day.

Another reason homework is seen as not necessary is because students these days are so busy out of school that they don’t have time to complete homework.

Who is right?

I’d say it’s probably somewhere in the middle.

There is nothing wrong with a little homework for students but it shouldn’t be assigned every night.

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We have all had time-consuming, monotonous, meaningless homework assigned to us at some point in our life. These assignments often lead to frustration and boredom and students learn virtually nothing from them. Teachers and schools must reevaluate how and why they assign homework to their students. Any assigned homework should have a purpose.

Assigning homework with a purpose means that through completing the assignment, the student will be able to obtain new knowledge, a new skill, or have a new experience that they may not otherwise have. Homework should not consist of a rudimentary task that is being assigned simply for the sake of assigning something. Homework should be meaningful. It should be viewed as an opportunity to allow students to make real-life connections to the content that they are learning in the classroom. It should be given only as an opportunity to help increase their content knowledge in an area.

Differentiate Learning for All Students

Furthermore, teachers can utilize homework as an opportunity to differentiate learning for all students. Homework should rarely be given with a blanket "one size fits all" approach. Homework provides teachers with a significant opportunity to meet each student where they are and truly extend learning. A teacher can give their higher-level students more challenging assignments while also filling gaps for those students who may have fallen behind. Teachers who use homework as an opportunity to differentiate we not only see increased growth in their students, but they will also find they have more time in class to dedicate to whole group instruction .

See Student Participation Increase

Creating authentic and differentiated homework assignments can take more time for teachers to put together. As often is the case, extra effort is rewarded. Teachers who assign meaningful, differentiated, connected homework assignments not only see student participation increase, they also see an increase in student engagement. These rewards are worth the extra investment in time needed to construct these types of assignments.

Schools must recognize the value in this approach. They should provide their teachers with professional development that gives them the tools to be successful in transitioning to assign homework that is differentiated with meaning and purpose. A school's homework policy should reflect this philosophy; ultimately guiding teachers to give their students reasonable, meaningful, purposeful homework assignments.

Sample School Homework Policy

Homework is defined as the time students spend outside the classroom in assigned learning activities. Anywhere Schools believes the purpose of homework should be to practice, reinforce, or apply acquired skills and knowledge. We also believe as research supports that moderate assignments completed and done well are more effective than lengthy or difficult ones done poorly.

Homework serves to develop regular study skills and the ability to complete assignments independently. Anywhere Schools further believes completing homework is the responsibility of the student, and as students mature they are more able to work independently. Therefore, parents play a supportive role in monitoring completion of assignments, encouraging students’ efforts and providing a conducive environment for learning.

Individualized Instruction

Homework is an opportunity for teachers to provide individualized instruction geared specifically to an individual student. Anywhere Schools embraces the idea that each student is different and as such, each student has their own individual needs. We see homework as an opportunity to tailor lessons specifically for an individual student meeting them where they are and bringing them to where we want them to be. 

Homework contributes toward building responsibility, self-discipline, and lifelong learning habits. It is the intention of the Anywhere School staff to assign relevant, challenging, meaningful, and purposeful homework assignments that reinforce classroom learning objectives. Homework should provide students with the opportunity to apply and extend the information they have learned complete unfinished class assignments, and develop independence.

The actual time required to complete assignments will vary with each student’s study habits, academic skills, and selected course load. If your child is spending an inordinate amount of time doing homework, you should contact your child’s teachers.

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7 Types of Homework for Students

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There are seven types of homework. These are practice, preparation, extension, integration, research, application, and flipped homework.

Each type of homework has its own role for students learning. The important task for teachers is to select homework that will best provide holistic support to a student.

This doesn’t mean just supporting students for the upcoming exams but also ensuring students are not overwhelmed by homework and that they can still live a balanced life outside of school.

Types of Homework

1. practice.

Practice is the most common task students have when they are given homework. It entails attempting to reinforce information learned in school so that students will commit it to long-term memory.

An example of practice homework is math workbooks. Usually, a teacher will complete the math task in class so students know how to do it, then give them a workbook of 20 – 50 tasks to complete overnight to reinforce the task.

The benefit of practice homework is that it can certainly help students commit what they learned in class to memory. This is especially the case if teachers used spaced repetition. This is a strategy whereby the teacher re-introduces things learned in previous weeks and months during homework revision so the information is not lost over time.

The downside of practice homework is that the child is learning on their own during this period. This means that, if the child hasn’t sufficiently learned the content in class, they don’t have anyone to help them during homework time. This can lead to a great deal of frustration and despair for students staring at a piece of paper feeling lost and confused.

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2. Preparation

Preparation homework is given to students before a lesson so they have the important information at hand before class.

Commonly, this occurs when teachers provide reading materials for students to look over between class. They then come to class having read the materials so they are ready to discuss and debate the topics.

It’s also commonly used in language learning, where it’s called pre-teaching of vocabulary. The teacher provides vocabulary to learn before class so the students can come to class and practice it together.

The benefit of preparation homework is that it bunches a lot of the didactic (non-interactive) parts of learning into the pre-class time so students can spend most of their time in class interacting with the teacher and peers.

The downside of preparation homework is that it rarely works as expected. Teachers often spend the first 10 to 15 minutes of class re-teaching what was supposed to be done for homework either because students found it too hard or they didn’t do the tasks.

3. Extension

Extension homework involves providing students with tasks that are based upon what was learned in class, but goes over and above those tasks.

It is the equivalent of teaching a student to swim then letting them out into the ocean. The students have to apply their knowledge in a new context without the support or ‘ scaffolding ’ of a teacher hovering over their shoulders.

The benefit of extension homework is it can give students a lot of confidence. They can go home and feel as if they’re excelling at their work when they find that they’re doing it without the support of a teacher.

The downside of extension homework is that it can be risky: by definition, students are extending themselves beyond what was learned in class, meaning they will come across new information and new contexts where they might need help that’s not available at the time.

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4. Integration

Integration homework requires students to bring together, or ‘integrate’, knowledge from various subjects and knowledge areas into one project.

The homework may involve the integration of history lessons with writing lessons to create a book report, or the integration of math with business studies to create a business plan.

Integration is great for students to draw connections between things they have learned in various different classes at school. However, it also involves a lot of complexity that may make students feel confused or overwhelmed.

5. Research

Research homework involves using your time after school and on weekends to gather data that will be discussed in class.

Often, this can involve interviewing family members, taking photos around your community, or looking up information on the internet.

The benefit of research homework is that students often come to class with exciting things to share. They will also come with questions to help stimulate conversation in class.

However, it’s important for teachers to be aware that not all students have access to high-speed internet and other resources to conduct research. In fact, in my homework statistics article, I discussed how a staggering 24% of low-income American teens regularly fail to complete homework due to lack of access to technology.

6. Application

Application homework involves taking knowledge learned in class and applying it to real-world settings.

This is common in immersive language learning settings, for example, when teachers ask students to go out into the streets and practice new vocabulary when ordering a drink or buying food.

The benefit of application homework is that it gives real-world context to what was learned in class. By applying your knowledge, you can more effectively commit it to memory than simply rote learning it at your kitchen table.

Application in a real-world setting provides a context and a story that you can easily pull from your memory in the future, helping you to retain information long-term.

7. Flipped Homework

The flipped learning movement is a movement that involves making students learn at home on their own then come to class to practice it.

For teachers, this means thinking about school as the space for ‘traditional’ homework and home as the space for instruction.

This is increasingly popular with technology and hybrid learning environments. For example, a teacher might assign a YouTube video to watch as homework before class. Then, the class involves dissecting the video and critiquing it.

The benefit of flipped learning is that it maximizes time for constructivist and hands-on active learning in the classroom. The downside is students can get confused during preparation, they may not complete the preparation work, or technology may fail on them.

What are the Functions of Homework?

Homework serves multiple purposes. These include:

• Getting Ahead: Many schools and parents give their children homework (including private tutoring help so their children can have an advantage in life over other children.
• Keeping Up: On a societal level, many governments encourage homework so that students can keep up with other societies in the ‘education race’ of the 21st Century. Some societies, like South Korea, heavily emphasize homework, and others feel they need to keep up.
• Catching Up: Many students are assigned homework to catch up with the rest of their class. If you find a topic very difficult, you may find you need to spend a lot more time on your own working through the information than your peers.
• Retention: Homework helps you to repeat and retain information. With extra practice, you can commit information to memory.
• Excitement: Some well-made homework can get students excited to come to class to discuss what they did.
• Application: Situation-based learning, where you’re applying what you learned in class to real-world situations, can help progress students’ knowledge in ways that you can’t in school.
• Home-School Relationships: Homework also serves the purpose of ensuring parents know what’s going on in school. Many parents like to see what children are learning so they can monitor their children’s progress and keep teachers accountable.

Homework comes in all shapes and sizes. While many teachers stick to the old fashioned repetition homework mode, I’d encourage you to try out a range of other types of homework that can keep students engaged, encourage more discussion and collaboration in class, and ensure that the difficult work where students need the teacher’s help takes place in the classroom. This will provide maximum support for your students, help propel them forward, and prevent arguments for why homework should be banned .

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Is "homework" countable?

I was wondering if "homework" is countable? I remember it is an uncountable noun when I learned English in middle school.

Suppose now I would like to ask my teacher to hand back my graded "homeworks" of last three times. How shall I ask him?

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"Homework" is uncountable since it is treated as a general meaning not a particular item, like "work", "money" etc.

In your case, use "assignment" instead.

May I have my last three graded assignments back please?

• Both 'work' and 'money' are countified and have well-documented plural forms. 'Homeworks' has not got the same pedigree, though some dictionaries license it with caveats. –  Edwin Ashworth Commented Jun 22, 2019 at 18:44

While I've seen the word homeworks used, I've never seen anything legitimate to indicate that it's correct. In any case, you can use the term homework assignments to refer to multiple homework items. That's a fairly common term, at least in American English.

• Thanks! But I don't ask my teacher for assignments, but my homework that I have worked out and handed to my teacher, and the homework is from last three times. How shall I ask him? –  Tim Commented May 22, 2011 at 1:39
• 1 @Tim: In American English, assignments is used for what you describe. In British English, homeworks is at least marginally acceptable — we used it at at least one school I went to, although I do remember it feeling awkward/slangy to me at first. –  PLL Commented May 22, 2011 at 8:10
• What I’ve seen to indicate it is correct is its frequent use by native speakers –  Casey Commented Nov 20, 2021 at 22:37

Traditionally, it is not countable, and most dictionaries list it as such.

However, the Merriam-Webster thesaurus (although not the Merriam-Webster dictionary) does have an entry for homeworks . Moreover, the plural form is used by at least some groups of educated native speakers.

One's best bet is to try to find out if one's audience belongs to a group that tends to use homeworks . If yes, then go ahead and use that word yourself. If not, rephrase as homework assignments or something similar.

Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

Notice that the Merriam-Webster thesaurus has the following entry :

homeworks noun plural of homework Synonyms of homeworks as in schoolwork Synonyms & Near Synonyms for homeworks schoolwork assignments, lessons, reading lectures drills, exercises, practices (also practises ) études, studies

(Interestingly, the Merriam-Webster dictionary entry does not give a plural form for homework .)

Examples of usage by educated native speakers

Such examples are not hard to find at all. For instance, American professors of linguistics, physics, and mathematics, at least, use the word homeworks quite frequently.

All of the examples below are from native speakers, as best as I can tell.

Here are five examples from linguistics professors:

Final grades will be calculated as follows: 30% for homeworks, 20% for the midterm, … Penny Eckert and Ivan A. Sag , Linguistics 1: Introduction to Linguistics (Syllabus), 2011, here . Late assignments are not accepted, but your two lowest-scoring homeworks will be dropped. Adam Jardine , Introduction to Linguistic Theory (Honors) (Syllabus), 2018, here . Homeworks are due at the beginning of class on the days indicated. Emily M. Bender, Linguistics 461: Introduction to Syntax (Syllabus), here . If turned in ​complete​, the homeworks will be graded 8 (well below average), 9 (average), or 10 (well above average​); but 0 if not done. Anthony C. Woodbury, Linguistics 306: Introduction to the study of language (Syllabus), here . Homeworks: 25% (lowest score dropped) Dani Byrd and Toby Mintz , Ling 275: Language & Mind (Syllabus), 2006, here .

Here are five examples from physics professors:

Some homeworks are 'secret' assessment exercises: General GRE, Praxis and Major Field Tests Richard Robinett, Penn State Physics Undergraduate Program Better Practices, 2010, p. 12 here . Homeworks are like sports practice Tom Moore , Teaching General Relativity with Tensors, 2006, here . These concepts can be introduced to students through labs, homeworks, and discussion questions. Brianna Billingsley and Cory Christenson, Incorporating Non-Western Contributions Into the Intro Physics Curriculum, 2019, here . With their flexible design, PhET sims are used in many ways—as demos, homeworks, or inexpensive, accessible lab alternatives—and getting started is easy with our database of over 500 activities. Katherine K. Perkins, Teaching Physics with PhET Simulations: Engaging Students and Increasing Learning (Abstract) 2012, p. 58 here . In this talk, we will outline the reforms—including consensus learning goals, “clicker” questions, tutorials, modified homeworks, and more—and present evidence of the effectiveness of these reforms relative to traditional courses. Katherine K. Perkins, Steven Pollock, Stephanie Chasteen, Steve Goldhaber, Rachel Pepper, Michael Dubson, and Paul Beale, Colorado's Transformed Upper-Division E&M and QM courses: Description and Results (Abstract) 2010, p. 119 here .

And here are five examples from mathematics professors:

Homeworks 1-3 David Blecher, here . There will be two midterm exams, weekly homeworks, and a final exam. Scott Sutherland, MAT 141: Honors Calculus 1 (syllabus), 2012, here . MIT 3.016 Homeworks W. Craig Carter, Mathematics for Materials Science and Engineers, MIT 3.016 (syllabus), 2011, (here) . Click on the link 'Problem Sets and Solutions'; you will reach this page , which is where the word homeworks appears (in the page heading). Homeworks (41/42 Track); Homeworks (51 Track) Andrew Schultz, SSEA 2006: Mathematics Track, 2006, here . All homeworks, except the first one, are due on Thursday at 3:30pm Mike Clancy and David Wagner, CS 70, Spring 2005: Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science, 2005, here .

In searching for examples, I also saw examples of similar usage by professors of comparative literature , philosophy, computer science, chemistry, and sociology.

• Even Wiktionary fails to concede the plural form as a possibility, but this is doubtless an ongoing countification (and 10 years is a substantial time for the evolution to progress). –  Edwin Ashworth Commented Nov 20, 2021 at 16:42
• American professors of physics and mathematics, at least, use the word homeworks... I wonder if I should take seriously pronouncements on quantum physics by English professors... –  Greybeard Commented Nov 20, 2021 at 18:18
• @EdwinAshworth I just looked at Wiktionary , and it says 'usually uncountable, plural homeworks '. The edit that added that note was on 5 October 2015‎. So indeed, things change in ten years! –  linguisticturn Commented Nov 21, 2021 at 17:18
• Whoops, I had SimpleWiktionary , which I didn't know existed. Obviously homeworks is harder. –  Edwin Ashworth Commented Nov 21, 2021 at 17:53
• @Greybeard Apologies if your comment was meant as a joke, but if it wasn't (and for the benefit of those who don't take it as a joke), the answer is, no you shouldn't. And indeed, conversely, if physics or math professors were to start making 'pronouncements' about whether a particular word is acceptable English, you shouldn't take that seriously, either. But that's not what's going on in my answer. My answer simply points out that there is a U.S.-wide, loosely connected group of educated native speakers who rather frequently and unselfconsciously use homeworks in day-to-day life. –  linguisticturn Commented Nov 21, 2021 at 18:38

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Unlike the past couple of years, when benchmark prices uniformly rocketed during and in the aftermath of the 2022 energy crisis, there's a variety of new prices across the states this time around.

New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia will all see decreases in the benchmark price for electricity.

And it's nothing to be sneezed at for beleaguered consumers who have been smashed by higher costs of living on all fronts.

In Victoria, for example, the fall amounts to as much as 7 per cent — or $100 — compared with an annual bill last year.

On the flip side of this equation is Queensland, where households in the populous south-east corner of the state will get hit by another, albeit relatively modest, increase in prices.

For residential customers in south-east Queensland, reference prices will edge up 4.2 per cent — or $83 — on last year.

In Western Australia, prices charged to households by the state-owned power providers Synergy and Horizon will increase by 2.5 per cent.

Richard Foxworthy, the boss of energy savings website Bill Hero, said the modest changes either way would be welcome news to consumers battered by years of double-digit price hikes.

Still, Mr Foxworthy noted that while prices had shot up quickly during the "dark days" of the energy crisis, they were falling much slower despite a slump in the wholesale cost of energy.

"Wholesale prices have now unwound and are pretty much back to baseline and have been for quite some time," Mr Foxworthy said.

"Retail prices — surprise, surprise — have been much slower.

"So while we can expect to see some moderate price declines — that's what we're anticipating — prices are still high with a long-term view."

What are governments doing about it?

Amid the sustained high prices for electricity, governments are, to varying degrees, stepping in to try to cushion the pain.

Perhaps most notably, the federal government will be handing out $300 to almost every Australian household — noting that some households claim they will miss out for reasons such as not being connected to the grid.

It won't be cash in your hand.

Rather, the money will be automatically taken off your bill.

And it won't happen all at once.

Instead, the $300 will be deducted in $75 increments for every quarterly bill over a year.

But it's not just the Commonwealth that's showering the largesse.

In Queensland, where the state Labor government faces a bruising election in October after almost 10 years in office, households are being given an extraordinary $1,000 energy rebate.

The assistance, along with the handout from Canberra, means Queenslanders will be paying much less for their electricity this financial year even with the increase in underlying prices.

It's a similar story in Western Australia, where gushers of resources and GST money have enabled the state government to shell out $400 as a "credit" against every householder's power bill.

The latest giveaway marks the fourth year in a row in which the WA government has forked out in such a way, meaning average consumers in the state have been paying some of the lowest prices in the country.

Other states such as South Australia and Victoria, which had hefty rebates for the financial year that's just ended, have not extended that relief.

Mr Foxworthy said the handouts were a "sugar hit" that would no doubt be gladly received by consumers but he said the money could have been better used.

"It seems like a huge, missed opportunity," he said.

"If those funds could have been deployed towards helping people install better insulation, install more energy-efficient appliances, decarbonise their homes by replacing gas appliances with electric alternatives, those kinds of things.

"It's kind of like to give a man a fish or teach them how to fish.

"So, you know, thanks very much federal government, you've given us a nice fish. But that's not going to last us very long into the future."

What's this about solar panels?

Millions of Australians over the past 14 years have, to a certain extent, tried to take matters into their own hands by installing solar panels to cut their bills.

It's been a successful strategy for the most part thanks, at first, to generous state and federal incentives that encouraged people to adopt the technology.

More recently, the plunging costs of solar panels have enabled people to install ever larger systems on their roofs to maximise the power they can produce.

Those two trends, plus one or two other things besides, have driven an extraordinary boom in rooftop solar uptake across Australia, where more than one in every three homes has a system.

But with the rapid spread of so much solar has come some significant challenges.

And none is bigger than the proverbial tidal wave of rooftop solar output that crashes over the system in the middle of every day — a phenomenon that is threatening to overwhelm the low-voltage poles-and-wires network in some places at some times.

To deal with that phenomenon, things are changing this financial year.

From this month, solar households across much of New South Wales may well have to pay for the right to export some of their output in the middle of the day.

Under a change that was approved by the regulator, poles-and-wires distribution companies Ausgrid, Endeavour and Essential will apply what is known as two-way pricing.

It involves customers paying 1.2 cents for every kilowatt hour of electricity their solar panels put back into the grid during the sunniest hours of the day — between 10am and 3pm.

But there are a couple of caveats.

For starters, the charge only applies over a certain monthly threshold of solar exports ranging from 192 kilowatt-hours to 212kWh.

Also, it is not an outright charge but rather a deduction of the feed-in tariff a customer receives from their retailer.

Consumers can set limits on any exports via the inverters that connect their solar panels to the grid.

As well as this, those same households can be paid 2.3 cents per kWh if they can deliver electricity into the network when it badly needs the supply — between 4pm and 9pm.

At the moment, it appears to just be New South Wales homes affected by the change, although both South Australia and Queensland have indicated they could update their tariffs in 2025.

Victoria has so far resisted imposing such costs.

Even so, one reader told the ABC his solar panels exported as much as 750kWh into the grid during the height of summer, suggesting some customers could be on the hook for added costs all the same.

Either way, experts say the changing settings for solar tariffs — and tariffs more generally — show how it is becoming increasingly important to make better use of Australia's abundant daytime solar resources.

Finn Peacock, the founder of SolarQuotes, said the likes of two-way pricing — and export limits for certain types of big new systems — were a reflection of the remarkable success of Australia's solar industry.

Mr Peacock said there were now so many households with solar panels, they were capable of generating so much power that it was, in fact, pushing the distribution system to the edge of its capabilities at times.

He said the changes were relatively minor in the scheme of things, adding they would be more than offset by the benefits provided by solar.

"The problem they're trying to solve — and it's a good problem in my opinion — is that solar uptake has been so fast," Mr Peacock said.

"There's so much solar in the network that the network does struggle at times to take all of that energy.

"We do need to do something because if we don't, the network will break.

"So, doing nothing is not an option."

How do I get the best deal?

It's something of a cliche that consumers should shop around for the best deal if they want to minimise their power bills.

But, according to Mr Foxworthy of Bill Hero, it's also fundamentally true.

Mr Foxworthy said falling wholesale prices had set energy companies "back on the acquisition trail" for new customers.

Consequently, he said, they were throwing around offers to try to entice people across.

He said this latest acquisition spree was often taking the form of cash incentives rather than cheaper electricity.

His advice: take advantage of retailers' offers. And never be loyal.

"Our view is that incentives can actually be better for consumers because you get the benefit of that incentive up-front, typically," Mr Foxworthy said.

"If you switch to a new retailer, some of them are offering $300 incentives just to sign up, and they'll pay that out to you sometimes in the very first month that you're with them.

"So it's actually a realistic strategy to find a plan where the value is tied up in an incentive, sign up to that plan, pocket the incentive.

"It would give you typically one, two or three months more or less of free electricity while that incentive credit is being consumed.

"Then just switch again to some other plan, potentially another plan that has its own incentives."

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HHS Proposes Physician Payment Rule to Drive Whole-Person Care and Improve Health Quality for All Individuals with Medicare

Proposed policies would increase value-based care, strengthen primary care, and expand access to behavioral and oral health care

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), proposed new policies in the calendar year (CY) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule to advance health equity and support whole-person care. The proposed rule would also strengthen primary care, expand access to behavioral health, oral health, and caregiver training services, maintain telehealth flexibilities, and expand access to screening for colorectal cancer and vaccinations for hepatitis B. The proposed rule reflects the Biden-Harris Administration’s vision for affordable, high-quality care for all Americans while driving innovation in the Medicare program.

“This proposed rule strengthens the care people with Medicare receive, advancing HHS’s goal of a health care system that not only treats those who are sick but also keeps people well,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “The proposed rule continues our implementation of President Biden’s historic prescription drug law. The law lowers costs for seniors and people with disabilities and uses rebates from drug manufacturers to strengthen Medicare. It also increases access to behavioral and dental care, expands access to cancer screenings, and supports caregivers.”

“The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to protecting and expanding Americans’ access to quality, affordable health care,” said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “The Calendar Year 2025 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule supports physicians and other practitioners in delivering care that meets the needs of people with Medicare, including through telehealth flexibilities, strengthened primary, behavioral, and oral health care, and improved access to caregiver training services.”

Because of factors specified in law, average payment rates under the PFS are proposed to be reduced by 2.93% in CY 2025 compared to the average amount these services will be paid for most of CY 2024. The change to the PFS conversion factor incorporates the zero percent overall update required by statute, the expiration of the 2.93% increase in payment for CY 2024 required by statute, and a small adjustment necessary to account for changes in valuation for the work RVU portion of particular services. This amounts to a proposed estimated CY 2025 PFS conversion factor of $32.36, a decrease of $0.93 (or 2.80%) from the current CY 2024 conversion factor of $33.29.

“Whole-person care means moving towards a health-care system that recognizes each unique aspect of a person and their wellbeing, including physical health, behavioral health, oral health, social determinants of health, and caregiving supports, and it all starts first with a foundation of primary care that can integrate these components,” said Meena Seshamani, M.D. Ph.D., Deputy CMS Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare. “We are taking lessons learned from numerous CMS Innovation Center models to strengthen primary care teams and accountable care organizations, allowing them to better meet the unique needs of every person with Medicare.”

Strengthening Primary Care while Driving Quality Improvement and Innovation

A person-centered approach to health care starts with a trusting relationship with a primary care team. Over the last decade, value-based primary care models tested by the CMS Innovation Center have demonstrated that comprehensive primary care can lead to reductions in emergency department and hospital visits while better meeting patient needs. CMS is proposing to use these lessons learned to establish a new, advanced primary care management bundle under the PFS. As an important first step as part of a multiyear effort, this proposed payment uses coding describing certain primary care services that would be provided by advanced primary care teams, with adjustments for patient medical and social complexity to promote health equity. These services would be tied to primary care quality measures to improve health outcomes for people with Medicare.

In addition, the Innovation Center’s Million Hearts® model demonstrated that payment for cardiovascular risk assessment and cardiovascular care management led to fewer deaths related to cardiovascular disease and important reductions in heart attacks and strokes. Based on these evaluation results, CMS is proposing new payment and coding for these services to better assess and manage heart health.

CMS continues to drive high-quality care through its Quality Payment Program and is continually strengthening the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). This rule proposes six new MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs): ophthalmology, dermatology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, urology, and surgical care. CMS is also proposing updates to MIPS scoring methodologies and measure inventories to give all clinicians the opportunity to achieve positive scores and continued improvement. These updates will help ensure that all eligible clinician types can continue to meaningfully participate in MIPS as CMS transitions to MVPs.

To further leverage progress on MVP development, the RFI “Building Upon the MVP Framework to Improve Ambulatory Specialty Care ” solicits feedback on the design of a potential model to increase the engagement of specialists in value-based care . Under the potential model, participants would receive a payment adjustment based on their performance compared to other similar specialists on a set of clinically relevant MVP measures.

CMS is also proposing to strengthen the Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program) further, which is Medicare’s permanent Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program. For the first time, CMS is proposing to allow eligible ACOs with a history of success in the program access to an advance on their earned shared savings, known as prepaid shared savings, to encourage investment in staffing, health care infrastructure, and additional services for people with Medicare, such as nutrition support, transportation, dental, vision, hearing, and Part-B cost-sharing reductions. Additionally, CMS is proposing to further incentivize participation in the Shared Savings Program by ACOs that serve people with Medicare who are members of rural and underserved communities by adopting a health equity benchmark adjustment similar to that in the Innovation Center’s ACO REACH Model, which has been associated with increased safety net provider participation. CMS is also proposing to move the Shared Savings Program towards the Universal Foundation of quality measures, creating better quality measure alignment for providers and driving care transformation. Further, CMS is proposing a methodology to account for the impact of improper payments when reopening an ACO’s shared savings and shared losses calculations, which is complementary to the Anomalous Increases in Billing on Medicare Shared Savings Program Financial Calculations Proposed Rule issued on (June 28, 2024).  The proposed adjustments described in both rules would improve the accuracy, fairness, and integrity of Shared Savings Program financial calculations.

Expanding Access to Behavioral Health, Oral Health, and Caregiver Training Services

Addressing the country’s behavioral health crisis continues to be a key priority for CMS . In support of the President’s whole-of-government strategy to transform how we address behavioral health, CMS is proposing several additional, impactful changes in this year’s rule. CMS is proposing new payments for practitioners who are assisting people at high risk of suicide or overdose, including separate payment for safety planning interventions and post-discharge follow-up contacts. CMS is also proposing new payment and coding for use of digital tools that further support the delivery of specific behavioral health treatments, and also new coding and payment to make it easier for practitioners to consult behavioral health specialists. For Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs), this rule also proposes new codes for FDA-approved medications for the treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and known or suspected opioid overdose, increased telecommunication flexibilities for periodic assessments and methadone treatment initiation, and an increase in payment for intake activities to provide more comprehensive services for the treatment of OUD, including assessing for unmet health-related social needs, harm reduction intervention needs, and recovery support service needs.

In response to public feedback about Medicare coverage of dental services, CMS continues to explore payment policies for dental services critical to the success of certain medical care. CMS previously finalized that payment can be made for dental exams and certain necessary diagnostic and treatment services in connection with organ transplants (including stem cell and bone marrow transplants), cardiac valve replacements, valvuloplasty procedures, head and neck cancers, chemotherapy, chimeric antigen receptor T- (CAR-T) cell therapy and high-dose bone modifying agents (antiresorptive therapy). In this year’s rule, CMS proposes that payment can be made for certain dental services associated with dialysis treatments for end-stage renal disease and includes a request for comment about dental services related to diabetes care and covered services for individuals with autoimmune diseases receiving immunosuppressive therapies.

Finally, caregivers provide crucial, daily care to many people with Medicare, and CMS continues to prioritize caregiver training services consistent with the Biden Administration Executive Order on caregiving . In this year’s rule, CMS proposes new payment for caregiver training services related to direct care services and supports and would allow caregiver training services to be provided virtually, as clinically indicated.

Expanding Preventive Services: Hepatitis B Vaccinations, Drugs Covered as Additional Preventive Services, and Colorectal Cancer Screenings

CMS is proposing to expand coverage of the hepatitis B vaccine for people with Medicare who have not received the hepatitis B vaccine or whose vaccination status is unknown, with no cost to the individual. We are also proposing to allow people with Medicare to get the hepatitis B vaccine from pharmacies and to allow pharmacies and mass immunizers to roster bill Medicare consistent with current billing for flu, pneumococcal, and COVID-19 vaccines.

CMS is also proposing a fee schedule for drugs covered as additional preventive services since CMS has not yet covered or paid for any drugs under the benefit category of additional preventive services. On July 12, 2023, CMS released a Proposed NCD for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection Prevention, which proposes to cover HIV PrEP drugs under Part B as additional preventive services.

CMS is also proposing to update and expand coverage of colorectal cancer screening to promote access and remove barriers for much needed cancer prevention and early detection, that may be especially important within rural communities and communities of color.

Maintaining Telehealth Flexibilities

During the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS took action to expand access to telehealth services to ensure people could continue to access health care. Congress’ temporary extension of flexibilities related to payment for many telehealth services is scheduled, by statute, to expire at the end of 2024. In that context, CMS continues to examine telehealth and its impact on access and quality. Proposals in this year’s rule would allow CMS to maintain some important, but limited, flexibilities where possible and reflect CMS’ goal to maintain and expand the scope of and access to telehealth services where appropriate. For example, these proposals would continue to permit certain practitioners to provide virtual direct supervision to auxiliary personnel when required. CMS is also proposing temporary extensions of virtual supervision for a broader range of services when teaching physicians virtually supervise telehealth services provided by residents in teaching settings. However, absent Congressional action, beginning January 1, 2025, the statutory restrictions on geography, site of service, and practitioner type that existed prior to the COVID-19 PHE will go back into effect. After that date, people with Medicare will need to be in a rural area and a medical facility to receive non-behavioral health services via Medicare telehealth.

Inflation Reduction Act Implementation

The Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden’s prescription drug law, discourages runaway price increases by drug companies by requiring them to pay rebates to Medicare when prices increase faster than the rate of inflation for certain drugs under Part B and Part D. Additionally, Part B drugs that have raised prices faster than inflation in a given quarter will have a lower Part B coinsurance amount in a subsequent quarter. CMS will invoice drug companies for rebates owed to Medicare for Part B drugs for all calendar quarters in 2023 and 2024 no later than September 30, 2025, and for rebates owed to Medicare for Part D drugs for the 12-month applicable periods beginning October 1, 2022, and October 1, 2023, no later than December 31, 2025. The rebate amounts paid by drug companies will be deposited into the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, which will help ensure the long-term sustainability of the Medicare program for future generations. The CY 2025 PFS proposed rule codifies and builds on finalized guidance to continue implementation of the inflation rebates and proposes the next phase of implementation.

The 60-day comment period for the CY 2025 PFS proposed rule (CMS-1807-P) ends September 9, 2024.

For a fact sheet on the CY 2025 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, please visit: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/calendar-year-cy-2025-medicare-physician-fee-schedule-proposed-rule .

For a fact sheet on the CY 2025 Quality Payment Program proposed changes, please visit: https://qpp-cm-prod-content.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2876/2025-QPP-Proposed-Rule-Fact-Sheet-and-Policy-Comparison-Table.pdf .

For a fact sheet on the proposed Medicare Shared Savings Program changes in the CY 2025 PFS proposed rule, please visit: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/fact-sheet-calendar-year-cy-2025-medicare-physician-fee-schedule-proposed-rule-cms-1807-p-medicare .

For a fact sheet on the proposed Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program changes in the CY 2025 PFS proposed rule, please visit: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/medicare-prescription-drug-inflation-rebate-program-proposed-rule-fact-sheet.pdf .

To view the CY 2025 Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program proposed rule, please visit: https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/current .

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The presidential nominating conventions every four years are political events, but they are also media events. Since the advent of television, Democratic and Republican national convention organizers have sought to tightly stage-manage their gatherings for home viewers, and they’ve often succeeded.

But not always.

One of the worst misfires was the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, when anti-war activists on Michigan Avenue chanted to the TV cameras “ the whole world is watching ,” as Mayor Richard J. Daley’s police beat them with billy clubs. In the convention hall itself, delegates staged their own protests for the cameras, and Daley’s security forces famously punched CBS newsman Dan Rather .

Images of that chaos circulated for months, and the Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey never fully made up the points he lost when Americans saw that violence on their TV sets.

As an expert on the 1968 convention and, in particular, on how TV news covered that crisis, I’ve been thinking about how Chicago might handle — or mishandle — the Democratic convention as both a political and a media event this August.

Fear of a ‘68 replay looms large , as the city has thus far denied permits to groups seeking to gather near the United Center, site of the convention. That denial of permits feels like a page from the Daley playbook.

But just because a situation echoes the past does not mean history is repeating itself. Today’s media is completely different, and a machine politician is no longer at the helm in Chicago.

Protesters outnumbered by law enforcement

Since 1998, conventions have been legally designated as national special security events, managed largely by the Secret Service .

But back in 1968, Daley decisively held the reins. Asked whether his police had “over-reacted” to protesters, Daley declared , “The policeman is not here to create disorder. The policeman is here to preserve disorder,” a statement that was less malapropism than Freudian slip. Under his guidance, the city was secured like a fortress, as 10,000 protesters faced off against phalanxes of police and National Guardsmen , with demonstrators outnumbered 2 to 1.

Daley scared off thousands with “law and order” threats in advance of the convention, but it’s reasonable to expect a much higher number of demonstrators arriving in 2024. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is a progressive who is widely perceived as more sympathetic to activists than to the police . He has not discouraged protest at the upcoming convention.

That fact alone marks a pivotal difference between Johnson and Daley. Johnson is a Democrat , but not the team player and machine boss that Daley was. Nor is he the authoritarian that Daley was. Daley had the police in his back pocket .

He did not, however, have the media in his back pocket, and neither does Johnson. In fact, even if he wanted to, Johnson could not suppress the voices of the journalists, influencers, bloggers, TikTokkers and podcasters sure to descend upon Chicago.

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The media ecosystem is radically different from what it was 50-plus years ago, when news was more centralized and media technologies were less portable and more difficult to obtain by nonprofessionals.

Kneecapping news reporting

Taking advantage of this top-down communications structure, Daley did everything he could to stymie journalism during the convention. Crucially, he did not resolve an electrical workers strike against the local phone company, which led to a double-edged crisis.

First, not enough extra phones were installed on the convention floor and other key areas such as convention hotels. That shortage made it difficult for print journalists to communicate with editors and call in stories. The 3,200 extra telephones installed before the convention fell far short of what was needed. It boggles the mind, but this was life before everyone carried phones in their pockets.

Second, the electrical lines and hookups the networks needed for live street coverage could not be installed because of the strike, which meant the only live TV coverage was in the convention hall itself . Film footage shot in the streets was raced by motorcycle couriers to the convention site, the International Amphitheatre, where it was developed, edited and aired.

An awkward but more accurate chant during the Battle of Michigan Avenue would have been, “The whole world will be watching in three or four hours!”

CBS, NBC and ABC understood that Daley was deliberately kneecapping them. It felt like “a total news blackout,” as exasperated CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite declared, an atypical, quick aside that perhaps only a media historian obsessively rewatching every moment of network convention coverage would pick up on.

NBC anchorman Chet Huntley reported that “the news profession in this city is now under assault by the Chicago police .” These were heavy words. Before the rise of cable news, much of which slants left or right, the professional norms dominating TV news insistently dictated neutrality. If Huntley went out on a limb to critique Chicago police, it had to be true.

Or did it? Could Huntley be trusted?

Support for police, not journalists

This is the part of the story that sounds most contemporary. In surveys taken after the convention, and mountains of letters and telegrams sent to the networks, a majority of Americans judged the police to have used an appropriate amount of force or even insufficient force against protesters .

Criticism of violence against journalists was scant. Instead, the networks were accused of “liberal bias” for showing too much violence on the part of police and not enough on the part of protesters. The CBS News archive is packed with letters from viewers decrying a lack of objectivity. Many harshly declared that Dan Rather got what he deserved.

Broadcasters responded to critics that they had merely shown what happened . A rigorous content analysis done by NBC at the time found that 3% of the network’s coverage included street demonstrations. CBS showed closer to 5%, by NBC’s estimation.

Having watched the gavel-to-gavel coverage, I can attest that, if anything, the networks undercovered police violence against protesters, not the opposite.

Suppression ‘unimaginable today’

In 1968, defenders of Daley claimed that the press told the Chicago story incorrectly, but they didn’t deny that the police had been violent. Today, by contrast, basic truths are subject to partisanship , and the belief that the mainstream media is infused with liberal bias has taken root among conservatives and those farther right .

Former President Donald Trump exploited this preexisting worldview to his benefit while in office, and after, spreading the falsehood that the 2020 election had been stolen from him .

GOP members of Congress and Fox News personalities likewise tapped into a belief among their followers that mainstream media could not be believed when they described footage of the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 as evidence not of an insurrection but of “sightseeing .”

Accusations of “ fake news ” and exclamations that the mainstream media is “ the enemy of the people ” have put journalists in jeopardy not only at high-profile events such as political conventions but also during their everyday work.

This will all weigh heavily in the air in Chicago in August. And at the GOP convention in Milwaukee in July.

The suppression of live coverage is unimaginable today, with mainstream media distributing instant images, and nonprofessional videos circulating like quicksilver on social media.

With phones that also function as cameras in everyone’s hands in 2024, the challenge for Americans observing both conventions from afar will be less censorship and a paucity of live imagery than the reverse — an overabundance of unsorted imagery, potentially coupled with a proliferation of disinformation, amplified by those with malicious intent.

There are many differences between the 1968 and 2024 conventions. One of the biggest is that now, the whole world is filming. The problem today is not how much we can see but how much we can believe.

Heather Hendershot is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism at Northwestern University. This essay originally appeared in The Conversation and is republished under a Creative Commons license.

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Deuce Knight is one of the top rated quarterbacks in the 2025 recruiting cycle and is only a couple months short of being committed to Notre Dame for a full calendar year. Knight has been rumored to be flipping his commitment to the SEC by various people, but through it all he has told anyone that will listen that he remains true to Notre Dame. In looking ahead to his Notre Dame career, Knight took to social media on Wednesday to try and do some public recruiting himself. Notre Dame has been having a bear of a time in the wide receiver department for the 2025 class, and Knight made a post to try and help the Irish land highly regarded 2025 wide receiver Derek Meadows of Las Vegas.

Enough said💯 pic.twitter.com/RWRtpLbEfa — Deuce Knight (@DeuceKnight) July 10, 2024

"WE WANT MEADOWS"

It doesn't get a whole lot less complicated than that. And why wouldn't Knight want Meadows? Derek Meadows checks in at 6-5, 200-pounds, and with a wingspan of 80-inches. He has the build that screams "NFL body" and a commitment from him would quickly change the narrative in Notre Dame's inability to land big-time wide receivers this cycle. Meadows is set to announce his commitment on Saturday, July 13. He'll be the first of three Notre Dame wide receiver targets in the next week to announce a commitment decision . Alabama, Georgia, LSU, and Michigan are each listed as finalists for Meadows as well as Notre Dame.

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The talk show ended amid a series of reports detailing allegations of racism, sexual misconduct and intimidation behind the scenes. Variety  also reported  on crew members’ frustrations with how the production handled compensation during the COVID pandemic. DeGeneres gave an on-air apology and three producers  were fired  after WarnerMedia conducted an internal investigation.

“Let me catch you up on what’s been going on with me since you last saw me,” DeGeneres said at the Santa Rosa show before joking: “I got chickens. Oh yeah, and I got kicked out of show business for being mean.”

The comedian went on to admit that she “can be demanding and impatient and tough. I am a strong woman.” DeGeneres added, “I am many things, but I am not mean.”

“I used to say, ‘I don’t care what people say about me.’ Now I realize I said that during the height of my popularity,” DeGeneres said about the public blowback from the allegations.

During a previous stop on the tour at the Largo at the Coronet Theater in West Hollywood, DeGeneres responded to a fan question by saying it was “so hurtful” how her show came to an end.

Degeneres’ “Ellen’s Last Stand…Up” tour continues through Aug. 17.

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13 amazing stats and facts about this year's All-Star teams

Sarah Langs

It’ll be a star-studded group on the field for the 2024 All-Star Game presented by Mastercard next Tuesday at Globe Life Field in Texas. By definition, the Midsummer Classic always puts the game’s top players on display, of course, and this year is no exception. With full All-Star rosters announced Sunday, it’s time to dig into the relevant context.

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Here are 13 stats & facts about the 2024 All-Star rosters.

Reserves revealed - The Phillies lead the way with seven All-Stars -- Jeff Hoffman, Matt Strahm, Ranger Suárez, Zack Wheeler, Alec Bohm, Bryce Harper and Trea Turner. That’s their most in a season in franchise history, surpassing their prior best of five, done six times, most recently in 2011.

- Four of those Phillies are pitchers, tied for the most by a team in a year. It’s happened seven previous times, by the 2021 Brewers, 2011 Giants, 2010 Yankees, 2008 Cubs, 2001 Yankees, 1996 Braves and 1942 Reds.

- The Dodgers have the second-most , with six All-Stars. It’s the fifth straight All-Star team with at least five Dodgers reps. That’s tied for the fifth-longest such streak, per Elias. They trail only the 1956-65 Yankees (10), 1936-43 Yankees (eight), 1942-49 Cardinals (seven) and 1949-54 Dodgers (six).

- Heliot Ramos was a MLB Pipeline preseason top 100 prospect for four straight years: 2021’s No. 81, 2020’s No. 65, 2019’s No. 92 and 2018’s No. 63. Now, in 2024, he’s an All-Star in his age-24 season. He’s the Giants’ youngest All-Star by age-season since Joe Panik in 2015 and their youngest such outfielder since Chili Davis in 1984. Development isn’t always linear. Baseball is so hard. But stories like this are why it’s the best.

- Luis Arraez is an All-Star for the third straight season, with a third different team. So is Juan Soto, who was named a starter on Wednesday. Before them, just eight players had made the All-Star Game in three straight seasons with three different teams, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. They were 2013-15 Nelson Cruz, 2005-07 Alfonso Soriano, 2004-06 Paul Lo Duca, 1993-95 Lee Smith, 1976-78 Goose Gossage, 1954-56 Jim Wilson, 1948-50 Walker Cooper and 1942-44 Bob Johnson.

- Mookie Betts joined Fernando Tatis Jr., who was named on Wednesday, as players who have now been All-Stars as both outfielders and shortstops. Only three other players have been selected to an All-Star team in separate seasons, at least once as primarily a SS that year entering the ASG, and at least once as primarily an OF: Harvey Kuenn, Tom Tresh and Ian Desmond, per Elias.

The rookies - On July 9, 2023, Paul Skenes was drafted No. 1 overall. Just under a year later, he was named an All-Star . Skenes is the first player to be an All-Star the year after being drafted in the June amateur draft, per Elias.

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- With Shota Imanaga and Skenes, this is just the 10th season with multiple rookie starting pitcher All-Stars, according to Elias. Add in Mason Miller, and it’s the seventh season with at least three rookie pitcher All-Stars, joining 2019 (John Means, Michael Soroka, Sandy Alcantara), 2012 (Wade Miley, Ryan Cook, Yu Darvish), 2011 (Jordan Walden, Aaron Crow, Craig Kimbrel, Michael Pineda), 2003 (Lance Carter, Mike MacDougal, Dontrelle Willis), 1995 (Carlos Perez, Tyler Green, Hideo Nomo) and 1955 (Herb Score, Luis Arroyo, Sam Jones).

- Now add Jackson Merrill, and this is the ninth season with at least four rookie All-Stars, with five in 2019 and ‘12 being the most. It’s the second straight season with at least four rookie All-Stars. The only other time it’s happened in consecutive seasons was 2011-12.

Starting squads - As announced Wednesday, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is a starter. It’s his fourth All-Star selection overall. His father made it nine times. Guerrero Sr. and Jr. are the second father-son duo to each be All-Stars at least four times, joining Gus (four times) and Buddy (five) Bell, per Elias.

- This will be Jose Altuve’s fifth All-Star Game start, breaking a tie with Craig Biggio for most in Astros’ franchise history. The only players with more seasons making an All-Star start at second base are Ryne Sandberg (nine), Roberto Alomar (nine), Rod Carew (eight), Nellie Fox (seven), Joe Morgan (seven), Charlie Gehringer (six) and Billy Herman (six).

- This will be Aaron Judge’s fifth season making an All-Star Game start, the fourth-most seasons doing so among Yankees outfielders, trailing only Mickey Mantle (11), Joe DiMaggio (nine) and Dave Winfield (seven). Judge and Soto will be the second Yankees OF duo to be All-Star starters in the same year in the last three seasons, along with 2022 Judge and Giancarlo Stanton. Before this, it hadn’t happened for the Yankees since 1985-88 Rickey Henderson and Dave Winfield.

- Bryce Harper has started five All-Star Games in the outfield and will start this year at first base. The only other players with at least five All-Star starts in the outfield to also make an infield ASG start are Henry Aaron (16 OF, 1 1B), Stan Musial (10 OF, 4 1B) and Carl Yastrzemski (6 OF, 1 1B). Just 13 players entering 2024 have started at least one All-Star game in both the outfield and infield in their careers. Harper will join the list this year.

The GOP platform calls for ‘universal school…

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The gop platform calls for ‘universal school choice.’ what would that mean for students.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — National Republicans are poised to support “universal school choice” as part of the policy platform they adopt at next week’s convention in Milwaukee, a goal supporters see as the culmination of decades advocating for parents’ autonomy to pick their children’s schools. To opponents, it’s a thinly veiled blueprint for gutting public education.

The term can mean different things to different people — from erasing school boundaries, to open enrollment, to being able to curate your child’s individual curriculum, to parental control over K-12 course content.

But education experts across the political spectrum interpret the GOP platform’s wording as favoring the type of approach adopted in states like West Virginia and Ohio , which make available taxpayer-funded vouchers, or scholarships, that can follow a child regardless of income to any public or private school.

“In our way of thinking, this is kind of your money, your children and your choice for where they want to go to school,” said Lisa B. Nelson, CEO of the American Legislative Exchange Council, which launched an Education Freedom Alliance in January to fight for just that. About a dozen states now have such programs, and proposals are in play in another 16, according to the alliance.

Nelson said this is the first time the GOP platform has gone beyond merely supporting school choice to calling for it as a universal option. It remains unclear how that would come to pass, given the platform also calls for shuttering the U.S. Department of Education, founded in 1979, and sending education policy-making “back to the States, where it belongs.”

Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the platform.

“Republicans believe families should be empowered to choose the best Education for their children,” the platform says.

James Singer, a spokesperson for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, said eliminating the department — which oversees Head Start , administers college financial aid programs , conducts education research and enforces civil rights laws — “isn’t just bad policy, it would rip vital support away from our most vulnerable children, leaving them less likely to graduate from high school or attend college.”

Chad Aldis, vice president for Ohio policy at the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, said declaring universal school choice as a policy goal and carrying it out are two very different things.

“I think empowering families with high-quality options is the right approach, but the details on how much funding is available, whether there are income constraints, those are the types of questions that would have to be answered,” he said.

State programs have faced a host of legal and practical questions as they’ve expanded voucher programs. The scholarships were once available only to low-income students in academically struggling districts, but they’ve evolved into catch-all offerings applicable to public, private, religious and charter schools. Opponents argue the expansive programs take money away from public schools that serve most of the country’s students and benefit higher-income families choosing to attend expensive private or religious schools.

The Hope Scholarship Program in West Virginia survived a constitutional challenge in 2022, but the number of school districts signing onto a lawsuit against Ohio’s EdChoice has ballooned since the voucher program became universal last summer.

This year’s Republican plank also calls for treating “Homeschooling Families equally,” which could take universality to yet another level.

Kim Anderson, executive director of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, said Republicans’ plan would “throw chaos into the lives of American families” without addressing what parents tell her members are their two highest priorities: the availability of mental health services and school safety.

“Public education has been a common good in this country since its inception, and to eliminate public education puts our democracy and our economy and the fabric of a diverse, inclusive society at risk,” she said.

Other policy priorities include: stripping federal funds from any school that engages in “inappropriate political indoctrination,” guaranteeing that students can pray and read the Bible in school, “hardening” schools’ disciplinary standards as a way of curbing violence, eliminating teacher tenure and adopting merit pay, and rejecting efforts to nationalize civics education.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, decried the entire GOP education platform, saying it sets up “a defunding mechanism and a mechanism to give a tax break to the wealthy.”

“My question to them is, what are they afraid of?” she said. “Why are they afraid of critical thinking? Why are they afraid of freedom to learn and freedom to teach? Why are they afraid of honest history? Why are they afraid of diversity?”

ALEC’s Nelson said supporters of choice believe vigorous competition makes all schools better.

And calls for broadening school choice are not coming exclusively from Republicans. In Louisiana, six Democrats voted in favor of a universal school choice bill in April.

“As I watch children in poverty, trapped in failing schools, who can hardly read, I’d be damned if I will continue to defend the status quo,” Democratic Rep. Jason Hughes, who represents New Orleans, opined on the floor before casting his vote.

Democrats also have voted in favor of expanded school choice in Nebraska and Pennsylvania. In Georgia, state Rep. Mesha Mainor left the party last year in part because of a differences over school vouchers.

The Associated Press’ education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org .

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Free Slurpee Day: On Thursday, 7/11, you can get a free frozen drink at 7-Eleven. Here's how.

Want a free slurpee stop in a participating 7-eleven, speedway or stripes store on thursday, july 11, to get a free small slurpee (while supplies last) on the convenience store chain's 97th birthday..

Here's one way to cool down : Head over to 7-Eleven for a free Slurpee on Thursday.

July 11 marks the convenience store chain's 97th birthday and what's become known as National Slurpee Day , when 7-Eleven gives away free Slurpees to celebrate. To get your freebie, just visit a participating 7-Eleven , Speedway or Stripes store to get a free small Slurpee.

You can get more than than just that one free Slurpee, too. Scan your 7Rewards and Speedy Rewards membership information and you will get a coupon for another free small Slurpee between July 12-31.

You can also get a chance to win free Slurpees for an entire year – or free snacks for a year – by using your 7Rewards or Speedy Rewards apps, or by purchasing certain products such as Doritos, Coca-Cola and Celsius energy drinks. For rules on various ways to enter the 7-Eleven Snacks or Sips for a Year contest, click here .

When is free Slurpee Day at 7-Eleven?

Slurpee Day is Thursday, July 11, which is also the 97th anniversary of the founding of 7-Eleven. Its first convenience store opened in Dallas, Texas.

There's no purchase necessary for your free small Slurpee. Just go into a participating 7-Eleven, Speedway or Stripes store to get your free drink (offer only good on July 11, while supplies last).

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Free Slurpee cups support good cause

This year, the free small Slurpees come in special edition cup designed with the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Customers can also support the charity by making a donation when they come into stores.

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More Slurpee-related treats at 7-Eleven

Can't get enough Slurpee goodness? When you visit 7-Eleven look for limited-edition Hostess Twinkies with Cherry Slurpee-flavored cream filling. The treat is expected to be available in stores through mid-August.

And if you are lucky, you might still find the Drumstick Slurpee Blue Raspberry Vanilla Cone, a Drumstick ice cream cone with a blue raspberry Slurpee layer. The limited edition treat, made with "delicious blue razz sauce ripples and candy bits," debuted in June and was expected to be available at least through the July Fourth holiday.

Want to wear your 7-Eleven crush on your sleeve? Head to the chain's online merchandise shop, where you will find new 7Collection hats, shirts and other items .

Inspired to throw a 7-Eleven birthday party? There's also $35 party kit including 7-Eleven candles, napkins, plastic utensils, paper plates, a table cloth and balloons.

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