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Published September 10, 2026 at 5:21 am | By Jordan Okafor, Staff Reporter Key Takeaways — Hilton Head Island American 15-year-olds performed above the international average in science, reading, and computational problem solving in the latest global comparison of student performance, but reading scores dropped 14 points from the previous cycle t…. Mathematics scores were statistically indistinguishable from the international average.

Published September 10, 2026 at 5:21 am | By Jordan Okafor, Staff Reporter Key Takeaways — Hilton Head Island The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing has launched a summer training program that brings college faculty from around the country to Cambridge to learn how to teach foundational artificial intelligence and machine learning across their ….

Published September 10, 2026 at 5:52 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Key Takeaways — Hilton Head Island Louisiana wildlife agents wrote 141 citations during the first weekend of dove season, the state's fish and wildlife agency said this week, and the enforcement note landed the same weekend hunters across the country walked into fields fo…. Agents ran patrols across all seven wildlife regions Saturday and Sunday.

Published September 10, 2026 at 5:53 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Key Takeaways — Hilton Head Island A federal order that told Western states to start mapping the big-game migration corridors on their landscapes turned eight this year, and the running total is 237 routes across 11 Western states. The Interior Department order, signed in 2018, gave state fish and wildlife agencies a shared framework and a funding path for mapping the seasonal migrations of mule deer, elk, and pronghorn.

Published September 10, 2026 at 5:52 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Key Takeaways — Hilton Head Island Michigan's bear season opened this week, with state wildlife officials reporting more than 6,000 hunters drawn out of a pool of roughly 72,500 applicants. The state wildlife division issued 6,278 bear hunting licenses for the 2026 season.

Published September 10, 2026 at 5:52 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Key Takeaways — Hilton Head Island An independent evaluation of the two agencies that split fish and wildlife duties in Pennsylvania recommends closer coordination on shared functions, without recommending that the state fold them into a single agency. Pennsylvania is the only state where fish and wildlife management sit inside two separate state agencies. One agency runs hunting, trapping, and game-lands management.

Published September 10, 2026 at 5:53 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Key Takeaways — Hilton Head Island The Arkansas wildlife agency's rebuilt Jonesboro office is on schedule, with construction bids scheduled to open this week and a target completion date in early summer 2027. The agency lost its Jonesboro regional office to fire a year ago. The rebuild sits on the same footprint.

Published September 10, 2026 at 5:21 am | By Jordan Okafor, Staff Reporter Key Takeaways — Hilton Head Island Teachers unions and Microsoft have agreed on a new nationwide standard for how artificial intelligence tools are used in American classrooms, promising that student and educator data will not be used to train models and that human oversi….

Published September 9, 2026 at 7:39 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Key Takeaways — Hilton Head Island Arkansas Game and Fish honored six partners at the 2026 Natural State Private Lands Expo, using the event as the annual public marker for a private-lands habitat portfolio that has grown fast enough to reshape where and how the state's h…. Six honorees is a small number for an event that reports hundreds of attendees at each Expo.

Published September 9, 2026 at 7:39 am | By Wade Henley, Staff Reporter Key Takeaways — Hilton Head Island Wyoming Game and Fish is turning to hunters themselves for the next round of decisions about how big-game licenses should divide among rifle, archery, and muzzleloader tags, opening three large-scale surveys aimed at antelope, deer, elk,….