Around the Southland: Fish fry season opens in Worth, Black history showcase in Robbins, more

News from around the Southland includes items from Worth, Robbins, Cook County, Tinley Park, Palos Heights, Beverly, and more.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

March 14, celebrate a decade of growing Birmingham kids’ vocabularies with Vocabby’s World

Birmingham children and their families are invited Saturday, March 14, as ArtPlay Community Education presents a free 10th ...
Opinion

Don’t let WA’s Running Start summer program stall

Two proposals before the Legislature this year seek to eliminate the ability for Washington students to take 10 additional summer credits.

Fitchburg schools looking at dual language program to help multilingual students

Fitchburg Public Schools is looking at launching a dual language program in order to better assist English Language Learners ...

Oxford schools seek 5.7% budget hike to cover rising costs, expanded special ed programming

In a budget memo on Feb. 10, Oxford schools superintendent Ralph Marino, Jr. said rising costs means the district needs to be creative in its allocation of resources.
IEEE

HPC-in-Containers: A Containerized Parallel Environment for Parallel Programming Learning Using Docker

Abstract: This paper presents HPC-in-Containers, a novel containerized parallel computing environment using Docker. It is designed to facilitate learning parallel programming concepts, where users do ...