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 >>MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Teachers have returned to a Pittsburgh-area high school where 21 students and a security guard were wounded in a stabbing rampage five days ago. They attended a counseling session at a church Monday morning before heading ov
Continue reading >>A study conducted in England concludes that children who jump from school to school frequently are at increased risk of developing psychotic symptoms when they became preteens. The study, titled “School Mobility and Prospective Pathways to Psychotic-
Continue reading >>LOS ANGELES (AP) — High school students hoping to be college students and the adults who chaperoned them were among the victims when a charter bus headed on a Northern California highway toward Humboldt State University. These are brief portraits of t
Continue reading >>An 11-year-old boy in North Carolina died after being struck in the head by a baseball hit off a bat during practice at his school, a local official said on Saturday. Alex Newsome, a sixth grader at Roland-Grise Middle School in Wilmington, North Carol
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