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A proposal to test a radical change in the U.S. student loan industry by putting it on the [free market?] auction block is set to pit Democratic lawmakers against the Bush administration and the banking industry. The troubled $85-billion business wou
In her own unique way, she provides an explanation.
"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." Sir Claus Moser
An East Valley eighth-grader was suspended this week after he turned in homework with a sketch that school officials said resembled a gun and posed a threat to his classmates.
The Food and Drug Administration approved a widely used adult psychiatric drug for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. Risperdal is the No. 3 anti-psychotic drug with $2.3 billion in sales in 2005
An East Valley eighth-grader was suspended this week after he turned in homework with a sketch that school officials said resembled a gun and posed a threat to his classmates.
Local high school students will soon be cashing in for hitting the books. A new pilot program promises to pay them to stay in school. More than 20,000 Arizona teens dropped out of the c
This editorial does take a critical look at the failure of our public schools and the strong case that the main culprit is the No Child Left Behind act.
The kids sat in Frances Willard Elementary School's library waiting for their teacher. She arrived about 9:10 a.m., dressed in all black, including a black face mask. "Sorry I'm late," Rock Island Police Officer Dytanya Robinson tol
The Conference Board of Canada recently released a report on innovation (or lack thereof) which claims that "Canadians are complacent and generally unwilling to take risks." It criticizes scientists for not publishing enough papers and inv
But Muscatine Police Chief Gary Coderoni said the child’s age is irrelevant. “If a person is committing a crime, it doesn’t matter,” he said. “The officer is going to use that amount of force that’s necessary. Police Chief Coderoni is obviousl
Google is expanding its empire into universities with entire campus e-mail networks switching over to using Google's e-mail service. This will give the internet company a "relationship for life" with students - who can carry on using t
When Maria Montessori docked in New York on her first trip to America in 1913, crowds greeted her ship and her arrival made the front pages. Montessori, Italy's first woman doctor, was toasted as a revolutionary educator.
After the VT shootings, Hamline Univ. offered coping assistance, even though it's 1500 miles away. Student Tony Scheffler took exception and replied a better solution would be to allow Hamline students the ability to defend themselves. They decid
If you're going to play a prank on a group of sixth-grade students, the last thing you want to do is warn them that a gunman is on the loose. Yet that's exactly what a group of teachers decided to do last week during an overnight visit to a s
"The lead teacher told the students and other adults that there were people somewhere in the park shooting guns but they were not shooting people; they were driving around playing. He added that the park ranger had advised him to tell everyone t
Mary Clemons had no intention of going to college after completing high school last year, and she was not pleased when her high school told her she had to complete a college application and submit it. (Maybe if all buy lottery tickets, we'd be r
Brent Tenney says he feels pretty safe when he goes to class at the University of Utah, but he takes no chances. He brings a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic with him every day.
Arizonans are barraged with news stories about the state ranking near the bottom in graduation rates and test scores. Arizonans hear very little about a leading cause of the low rankings—that the state ranks near the top in out-of-wedlock births.
Told to express emotion for a creative-writing class, high school senior Allen Lee penned an essay so disturbing to his 'teacher', school administrators and police that he was charged with disorderly conduct, officials said Wednesday.
During the demonstration, Winset pretended to shoot some students. Then one student pretended to shoot Winset to illustrate his point that the gunman might have been stopped had another student or faculty member been armed.
Back in February, Melissa was seized from her family home in a dramatic police raid for the crime of home schooling - illegal since 1937 by edict of Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler - and placed with a foster home in a location unknown to her fami
(When does this all end) The Justice Dept is conducting a probe of a $6 billion reading initiative at the center of President Bush's No Child Left Behind Law, another blow to the a program besieged by allegations of financial conflicts of intere
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said a concealed handgun carried by a faculty member or student at Virginia Tech might have reduced the toll from Monday's shooting spree by a student.
A University of Colorado student was arrested after making comments classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech. Another student was detained when he was spotted wearing an ammunition be
The Virginia Tech student who went on a shooting rampage has prompted some calls for background checks on college applicants. "It's an idea whose time has come," says Catherine Bath, executive director of Security On Campus, a national
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has a simple solution to future shooting massacres such as the one that ripped apart Virginia Tech university Monday: more guns.
Gunfire erupted in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 22 people, the police chief said. The gunman was killed.
Cozy arrangements between colleges and the companies that lend their students billions of dollars are far more widespread than anticipated, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said, just as 2 more college financial aid officers were suspended amid
