Education
Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools
Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools. The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/13Qe0uR ) reports that Perry was drawn to Finland Middle School on Friday after seeing a ...
Program for young people with disabilities expands
A South Dakota program that provides employment training for young people with disabilities is expanding to Brookings. Project Search has been operating internship programs at Avera McKennan Health Care Systems in Sioux Falls and Aberdeen for three years. A third site will begin training students in August at South Dakota ...
Aberdeen giving away school building, $400K
The city of Aberdeen is giving away a nearly 100-year-old school building for free along with a $400,000 check. But interested parties must act fast. The American News reports (http://bit.ly/12N5LCm) that city officials are looking to give away the old Washington Elementary School and a $400,000 tax incentive. Officials are ...
Graduations slated for tornado-ravaged Okla. town
Graduation ceremonies are set in an Oklahoma community hit hard by a tornado. Commencement exercises are set for Saturday for the three high schools in Moore. The Oklahoma City suburb was hit by a strong tornado Monday; 24 people died. The ceremonies for graduates of Westmoore, Southmoore and Moore high ...
Giffords, husband to give Bard commencement speech
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, are giving the commencement address at Bard College in the Hudson Valley. Giffords was among 13 people wounded in a January 2011 shooting outside a Tucson, Ariz., supermarket that left six others dead. The Democrat resigned ...
New learning standards spur debate in Michigan
Educational goals being implemented in Michigan schools have sparked a contentious debate in Lansing, pitting Republican Gov. Rick Snyder against the Republican-led Legislature that is taking steps to halt the standards. In 2010, Michigan's State Board of Education adopted the Common Core State Standards benchmarks in reading, writing and math, ...
Salem shoe drive gives kids good fits
Two years ago, Laurie Shaw, who for years has worked with youths, could not have predicted what a pair of good-fitting shoes could do for a kid. That a pair of white Air Jordans could make an otherwise tough guy cry. That some children go to school in shoes that ...
NBC's Brian Williams to address Elon Class of '13
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is returning to Elon University to advise the Class of 2013. Williams will deliver the address at the school's 123rd Commencement Saturday morning. Williams chairs Elon's School of Communications Advisory Board, mentoring students on their academic and career opportunities. In 2011, Williams moderated a ...
Obama's new wordsmith believes in public service
When President Barack Obama decided to attend a memorial service in Arizona for victims of a deadly mass shooting that severely injured then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he needed a speech. And fast. The service was in two days. Jon Favreau, then chief White House speechwriter, was deep into writing Obama's 2011 ...
Girl charged with library bomb threat
A12-year-old girl has been charged with making a bomb threat at a southwest Florida public library. Naples police say a Collier County Library branch was evacuated Wednesday morning after a worker found a note in the book depository that threatened to "blow up" the library. A sheriff's office K-9 searched ...
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