Education
Teen's success at debate leads to Princeton
Destiny Crockett is the first graduate of St. Louis' Clyde C. Miller Career Academy to ascend to the Ivy League. A love for debate helped get her there. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/15TQswd ) reports that the 17-year-old valedictorian with a 4.1 grade-point average earned a full scholarship to Princeton ...
Kan. students get record number of food backpacks
The Kansas Food Bank has given out a record number of its backpacks full of food to students this year. The highest number of backpacks handed out this year to school children in need was 7,158 during one week in February, said Larry Gunkel, a Food Bank official running the ...
Clark County teachers hoping to become 'losers'
Twenty-eight George Rogers Clark High School teachers and staff members are on a mission to become losers. Biology teacher Sara Stone says the group is using weekly weigh-ins and healthy competition to kick-start a weight loss effort at the Kentucky school. Eight years ago, a group of faculty and staff ...
Wayne school board cancels meeting on vandalism
The Wayne County Board of Education has canceled a special meeting that was set to consider whether to pursue charges in the vandalism of a high school. Board members had planned to meet Monday to discuss the vandalism that occurred Thursday night at Wayne High School. State police say windows ...
Special officers tempting school security option
They get a little more than half the training of regular police officers, typically work part time for $15 to $20 an hour without benefits, and carry guns — and they might be patrolling the hallways of some North Jersey schools by the fall. Special Law Enforcement Officers have been ...
Cardboard boats teach physics
While the saltiest of sea captains might not choose cardboard and duct tape as the ideal building materials for his ship, they certainly fit the bill for Jason Owens' physics students. And so, on a narrow strip of land extending soggily into "Lake Buccaneer," 28 Boyd-Buchanan students launched their boats ...
Interest in charter schools soars in B.R.
The state Department of Education said 35 organizations have submitted applications to start about 100 new charter schools in 19 parishes. The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/107J3Sc) the organizations are seeking to open their new schools in 2014, 2015 or 2016. Twenty-two applicants want to start schools in East Baton Rouge Parish, ...
Cell phones stolen from Georgia charter school
Investigators in Mitchell County are trying to solve an unusual theft from a school. Investigator Melvin Ray says someone took about 20 students' cell phones from a locked file room at Baconton Community Charter School. The school's policy is if a child is caught with their cell phone during school ...
SC colleges look at on-campus tobacco bans
Campus-wide bans against smokers could spread to several South Carolina universities. The State newspaper of Columbia reports (http://bit.ly/110zJ7i) that at least 10 South Carolina colleges have gone tobacco free and at least five others are considering it in the country's fifth-largest tobacco-growing state. University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides ...
NASA Administrator speaking at DSU commencement
NASA Administrator Charles Frank Bolden Jr. is speaking at Delaware State University's commencement. Bolden became NASA administrator in 2009 after a 34-year career with the Marine Corps and is the first African American to serve as the administrator of NASA. Bolden was a member of the astronaut corps for 14 ...
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