The D.C. Council gave final approval Tuesday to a new taxpayer-funded college scholarship program known as D.C. Promise, which will offer high school graduates up to $7,500 per year to help pay for higher education. David A. Catania (I-At Large), who i
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some vocabulary words such as "prevar
Continue reading >>A Pleasanton woman was sentenced to more than 16 years in federal prison for netting $5.6million while running a fake university that was a front for foreign students seeking to establish U.S. immigration status. Susan Su, 44, who operated Tri-Valley U
Continue reading >>Medical degrees will no longer take as long to earn as they have previously for students that attend the Medical College of Wisconsin. The college now has a completely revamped 150,000 square foot Science Center at St. Norbert College that is loaded with
Continue reading >>ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jennifer Craig stared at her daughter’s fifth-grade math homework. It was a three-digit multiplication problem, and it seemed simple enough. But her 10-year-old was supposed to solve it by drawing a chart, breaking apart numbers, multipl
Continue reading >>Fairfax County teens will get extra sleep next fall under a new initiative approved late Thursday that will push back the first class of the day in high schools to 8 a.m. or after. The school board voted 11 to 1, with board member Kathy Smith (Sull
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