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 >>An Ohio teen attacked her mother with a knife in the second stabbing linked to the fictional horror character “Slenderman.” A Hamilton County mother, who asked to not be identified, told a local NBC affiliate that her 13-year-old daughter became ob
Continue reading >>Like many high schoolers, 18-year-old Julia Reidhead knew that she wanted something special to wear to prom. But after trying on tons of dresses and not finding one that was "her," the artistically minded teen from Mesa, Arizona, came up with an unort
Continue reading >>A Coney Island principal has put the kibosh on patriotism — again. Greta Hawkins caused a furor when she barred her PS 90 kindergartners from singing “God Bless the USA” at their graduation ceremony in 2012. Now she has stopped pre-K kids from s
Continue reading >>This is Karlesha Thurman, a 25-year-old mom and recent graduate of California State University Long Beach. The proud mom shared this photo on the Facebook page of Black Women Do Breastfeed of her breast-feeding her daughter while attending her college
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