In Other News: Missouri quarterback apologizes for offensive tweets he sent in middle school; New York City study finds literacy coaches have no impact on low-income students

Published 3:28 pm Tuesday, August 7, 2018

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Missouri quarterback apologizes for offensive tweets he sent in middle school

University of Missouri quarterback Drew Lock apologized after a newspaper asked him about offensive tweets he sent in middle school. The Columbia Daily Tribune reported it received an email from a reader pointing to tweets on the first-team All-SEC quarterback’s Twitter account from 2011, when Lock was in the eighth grade. In one of the tweets, he called someone a slur for homosexuals. In another, he said “black guys like Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.” — The Washington Free Beacon

New York City study finds literacy coaches have no impact on low-income students

A major push by New York City to help poor children in public schools learn to read by assigning literacy coaches to their teachers had no impact on second-graders’ progress, according to a study of its first year. The literacy program embedded 103 coaches in 107 high-need schools in the fall of 2016. Each coach was assigned to spend the academic year honing teachers’ instructional skills in kindergarten through second grade. The city Department of Education conducted the evaluation, but its officials said it was too early to judge the initiative. They said they would be boosting annual funding for the program to $89 million from $75 million. — The Wall Street Journal

Democratic senator says he did not understand meaning of sign he held up

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, seen as a likely contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, appears in a photo appearing to endorse a slogan of the pro-Palestinian movement. But a Booker spokesman says the senator had no idea the sign had anything to do with Israel. The sign read “From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go” and depicted a crumbling brick wall. The spokesman said Booker believed the sign referred only to Mexico, not to the Palestinian question. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has favorably compared President Donald Trump’s call to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico to the wall along the Israeli border with Egypt. — Jewish Telegraph Agency

Robert E. Lee statue vandalized on Richmond’s Monument Avenue

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Richmond, Virginia’s famed Monument Avenue has been vandalized. Red paint was splattered on the statue’s base. The letters BLM, an apparent reference to the Black Lives Matter movement, were also sprayed on the base. — Yahoo News