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CEO Byju Raveendran in interview with ANI NEW DELHI: In his first extensive pubsince Byju’s came under intense scrutiny, founder and CEO Byju Raveendran has laid out a renewed vision for the embattled ed-tech company- “Byju’s 3.0”– with a sharp focus on returning to its roots: empowering teachers, prioritizing students as he explained on why he won’t walk away from …

Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Republican representative and President Trump’s pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will appear before the Senate health committee on Thursday, the first time an agency director has been subject to the confirmation process. Dr. Weldon, 71, is perhaps the least known of the men nominated to lead major agencies at the …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent the first day of his back-to-back confirmation hearings deftly avoiding questions about his views on vaccines. On the second day, when a prominent Republican senator insisted there was no link between vaccines and autism, Mr. Kennedy shot back that a new study “showed the opposite.” “I just want to follow the science,” Mr. Kennedy declared. …

For nearly two decades, Adrian Maclin has changed lives inside and outside of his classroom. Maclin, a music teacher at Cordova High School in Memphis, Tennessee, is the winner of the 2025 Music Educator Award, which is presented by the Recording Academy and the Grammy Museum. “We don’t refer to ourselves as a choir class,” Maclin said. “We refer to …

When President Bill Clinton worked with a bipartisan Congress to enact a federal program to guarantee vaccines for poor children, they agreed that the authority over buying shots from drug makers should rest with the health secretary. The bill’s drafters did not consider that an extremely vocal critic of childhood vaccines would emerge as a nominee for the role. That …