MLB forms diversity committee, black players focus
Major League Baseball has created a task force that will study how to increase diversity in the game, especially among black players. Commissioner Bud ...
An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise ...
Fargo takes action to lessen impact of flooding
The landscape has changed dramatically since the record flooding of the Red River: Hundreds of once-vulnerable homes are now gone and miles of ...
Ohio school: Jesus portrait has been taken down
A Jesus portrait that has hung in a southern Ohio school district since 1947 was taken down Wednesday, because of concerns about the potential costs ...
Caroline Kennedy returns to poetry for 10th book
Beginning work a few years ago on her latest book, an anthology of poems for young people, Caroline Kennedy found herself looking through one of her ...
Protesters march against Chicago school closures
Hundreds of teachers, parents and other opponents marched through downtown Wednesday, vowing to fight a plan to close 54 Chicago Public Schools, ...
Ind. school voucher ruling could influence others
The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the nation's broadest school voucher program in a ruling supporters say could set a national precedent as ...
Early number sense plays role in later math skills
We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and ...
Parents, union to fight Chicago school closings
Chicago Public Schools officials ended months of speculation when they released the list of 54 schools the city plans to close, but the pushback ...
Chicago to close 54 schools to address $1B deficit
Tens of thousands of Chicago students, parents and teachers learned Thursday their schools were on a long-feared list of 54 the city plans to close ...
Barbs of racism, anti-Semitism in NY school clash
School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in ...
AP source: Butler, Creighton, Xavier to Big East
The two conferences growing out of the old Big East are moving forward. Butler, Creighton and Xavier will join the so-called Catholic 7 schools in the ...
Monitoring your kids on Facebook? That's so 2009.
After Friendster came MySpace. By the time Facebook dominated social media, parents had joined the party, too. But the online scene has changed - ...
After decade of criticism, student grouping rises
Teachers say they are grouping students of similar abilities with each other inside classrooms and schools are clustering pupils with like interests ...
Report makes chilling forecast on Northwest quake
More than 10,000 people could die when — not if — a monster earthquake and tsunami occur just off the Pacific Northwest coast, researchers told Oregon ...
Maine school laptop contract to be open to others
The only state to provide laptops to public school students statewide said Thursday the contract it's negotiating for new devices can be used by other ...
Ohio woman, 106, finally gets high school diploma
A 106-year-old central Ohio woman who completed classes but didn't graduate in a dispute over a book has received her high school diploma. The News ...
Report: More youth use smartphones as route to Web
Keep computers in a common area so you can monitor what your kids are doing. It's a longstanding directive for online safety — but one that's quickly ...
Titles don't much matter for high school math
Advanced or intermediate algebra? Honors or basic geometry? When it comes to high school math, the labels may not really matter — or necessarily ...
Schools shift from textbooks to tablets
Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their ...
NY high school raises $489K with marathon dance
The 710 students from South Glens Falls High School danced for more than a day: Conga lines, "Gangnam Style," giddy-ups, hand jives and the Harlem ...
Budget cuts to hit military school districts first
Public schools everywhere will be affected by the government's automatic budget cuts, but few may feel the funding pinch faster than those on and ...
'Switched at Birth' goes silent to make a point
"Until hearing people walk a day in our shoes, they will never understand," says a guidance counselor at a high school for deaf students in "Switched ...
Michelle Obama highlights obesity progress in MS
Michelle Obama on Wednesday congratulated this Southern state for a more than 13 percent drop in its child obesity rates, saying its example should ...
Storm brings deaths, travel problems, power losses
A Midwest snowstorm packing heavy snow and strong winds left six people dead in Kansas, hundreds of vehicles crashed or stranded in Wisconsin, and ...
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