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 >>STORRS, Conn. – Jubilant fans celebrating UConn's Monday night national basketball championship win smashed a window in an engineering building, broke street lights and overturned furniture inside the school's student union. Campus police had made
Continue reading >>The exams are designed to demand more of students and give a clearer indication of how much they're learning. They'll be the first to be administered entirely on computers. Schools across California are set to begin administering new standardized t
Continue reading >>FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A class of sixth-graders from North Dakota has schooled some of the best college business students in the country on the stock market. It started as a competition between the regular and advanced math classes at Fargo's Oak Grove
Continue reading >>There’s a growing gender gap when it comes to the youngest members of Generation X and college. A federal survey of about 9,000 young men and women born during the years 1980 to 1984 shows a big disparity when it comes to higher education, with women a
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