Toilets, homework and retellings

The Telegraph and Argus also echoes the story about the Brontë Parsonage Museum receiving a grant to install toilets at long last.

A £100,000 grant has been awarded to improve visitor facilities at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

The money will help pay for the installation of fully-accessible toilets and Changing Places provision at the Haworth attraction.

Thousands of people from across the world visit the one-time home of the famous literary siblings, where the sisters wrote their famous works, every year.

But the Brontë Society, which runs the museum, says a current lack of facilities is presenting a "huge barrier" in relation to accessibility.

The new funding – from Arts Council England, through the Government-backed Capital Investment Programme – together with money already secured from the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture Cultural Capital Fund, will enable the improvements to go ahead.

Once constructed, the Changing Places facility will be the first of its kind in the immediate area. The provision caters for people – and their carers – with profound and multiple learning disabilities, as well other disabilities that severely limit mobility, who are unable to use standard toilets.

Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, says: "We are thrilled at Arts Council England’s decision to award us this funding and are very appreciative of its support.

"Visitor facilities are an essential part of a day or evening out, and the current lack of facilities is a huge barrier to access.

"This development will have a significant, positive impact on the thousands of people who visit our museum each year.

"We are looking forward to construction commencing this summer and having the new facilities in place ready for Bradford’s important year as UK City of Culture in 2025." (Alistair Shand)

A Miami Herald article highlights the problems caused by trying to block websites not suitable for kids in schools.

Like Perez, Rockwood School District sophomore Brooke O'Dell most frequently runs into blocked websites when doing homework. Sometimes she can't access PDFs she wants to read. Her workaround is to pull out her phone, find the webpage using her own cellular data, navigate to the file she wants, email it to herself, and then go back to her school-issued Chromebook to open it. When it's website text she's interested in, O'Dell uses the Google Drive app on her phone to copy-and-paste text into a Google Doc that she can later access from her Chromebook. She recently had to do this while working on a literary criticism project about the book "Jane Eyre." (Tara Garcia Mathewson)

Times Now News has selected '10 Classic Books and Their Modern Retellings' including both

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

'Jane Eyre' is an 1847 novel that explores themes of morality, religion, and feminism through the life of an orphaned girl who becomes a governess. Lyndsay Faye’s 'Jane Steele' reimagines the titular character as a serial killer in Victorian England who, like Brontë's Jane, seeks justice and moral reconciliation, yet does so by taking matters into her own hands in a darkly humorous twist. [...]

6. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Wuthering High by Cara Lockwood

This dark tale of passionate and destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff is transformed in "Wuthering High" into a story set in a boarding school on the California coast. The novel explores similar themes of love, revenge, and the supernatural, making it accessible to a teenage audience.