Education

Education

• Obama to speak at Morehouse College commencement

  A White House official says President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta this spring. The Rev 

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  School choice goes Hollywood to reach Main Street

  The movie "Won't Back Down" starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis was a box-office dud, barely earning $5 million and disappearing from theaters ... 

• Playgrounds to honor Conn. victims in Sandy towns

  The state's largest firefighter union is remembering the 26 victims of December's Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre in Connecticut by ... 

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  Obama support for gun control has roots in Chicago

  President Barack Obama's support for gun control has its roots in a hometown plagued by deadly shootings — a city, he said Friday, where as many ... 

• Vikings to play 2 cold seasons in outdoor stadium

  Next season will be the Minnesota Vikings' last in the 31-year-old Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, and fans of the purple and gold can look forward to ... 

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  Opponents denounce call for anti-gay prom in Ind.

  A quiet Indiana community known for its parks and corn festival has become the latest setting for the debate over gay rights and bullying after ... 

• Alabama bars arrested players from campus

  The University of Alabama has barred three football players from campus after their arrest on robbery charges. University spokeswoman Deborah Lane ... 

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  Washington's 'presidential library' taking shape

  George Washington's 1796 farewell address contained a stern warning to the nation about partisan politics, or the "dangers of faction" in the language ... 

• Column: Finally, a punishment that fits the crime

  Ejecting players on the spot for using their helmets to target opponents in college football is such a sensible idea that it's hard to believe the ... 

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  Obama pushes preschool plan, won't discuss cost

  Raising hopes among parents who want preschool for all, President Barack Obama on Thursday rolled out a plan to vastly expand government-funded early ... 

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  JFK memorabilia draws hundreds to Mass. town

  A preview of John F. Kennedy memorabilia including notes by his special assistant on the day the president was assassinated is drawing hundreds of ... 

• Pa. grad student sues, says C-plus cost her $1.3M

  Talk about grade inflation. Graduate student Megan Thode wasn't happy about the C-plus she received for one class, saying the mediocre grade kept her ... 

• USC fires baseball coach for NCAA violations

  Southern California has fired baseball coach Frank Cruz for violating NCAA rules regarding limits on practice time and organized team activities. 

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  Library of Congress has plan for saving recordings

  The Library of Congress unveiled an extensive plan Wednesday to help libraries and archives nationwide preserve recorded sound to guard against losing ... 

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  Ohio town latest focus of religion legal debate

  Since just after World War II, a portrait of Jesus has hung in a Jackson City Schools building, attracting little discussion and no controversy that ... 

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  LBJ and Lady Bird courtship love letters released

  Days after the congressional aide met the University of Texas history and journalism graduate in Austin, he boldly proposed marriage. Claudia Alta ... 

• White House releases college cost website

  The White House is releasing a website designed to help college-bound students have a better sense of how much their education will cost and how much ... 

• NY school names theater after singer Pete Seeger

  The high school in Pete Seeger's upstate New York hometown has named its theater after the 93-year-old folk singer and his wife. A ceremony held ... 

• SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sitting out the speech

  While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th ... 

• Ohio school board votes to keep Jesus portrait up

  An Ohio school district decided Tuesday night to keep a portrait of Jesus hanging in the school where it's been 65 years, denying a federal lawsuit's ... 

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  Police: 3 killed in shooting at Utah drug house

  A suspect was on the run Tuesday after three people were shot to death and one was wounded at a known drug house in suburban Salt Lake City, causing ... 

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  Papacy buffeted by changes in modern world

  The pope is by far the world's most visible religious figure. His office can be a bully pulpit on everything from salvation to the economy. In his ... 

• Study: NCLB waiver weaken grad rate accountability

  Many states granted waivers from the No Child Left Behind law are relaxing or ignoring federal regulations designed to hold schools accountable for ... 

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  Young Afghan musicians in NY for date at Carnegie

  For these young people from Afghanistan, it's the perfect trip to America. They get to scarf down New York pizza, go ice skating — and take the stage ... 

• B10 ADs, coaches worry about easing recruit rules

  Big Ten athletic directors and football coaches say they have reservations about loosened NCAA recruiting rules that would allow unlimited contact ...