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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by Lingli | 2014-03-06

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

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by Lingli | 2014-04-22

FAn administrator at Bergen Community College suspended a professor for posting a picture of his daughter wearing a “Game of Thrones” T-shirt on social media. The shirt depicted a GOT quote about fire-breathing dragons that the administrator interpret

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by Lingli | 2014-04-22

SEATTLE (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America has revoked its charter agreement with a Seattle church that refused to remove a gay troop leader after the organization withdrew his membership. A Boy Scouts attorney told Rainier Beach United Methodist Chu

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by Lingli | 2014-04-22

NEW YORK – "Just Do It" has been a familiar Nike slogan for years, but some parents are wondering what it was doing on some of New York's Common Core standardized English tests. Brands including Barbie, iPod, Mug Root Beer and Life Savers showed u

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by Lingli | 2014-04-22

Undergraduate tuition and fees at the University of Virginia would rise 4.3 percent for Virginians in the coming year under a proposal the governing board will consider next week. The basic in-state price of the public flagship university, not counti

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