Topic: United States
Cigarette and alcohol use by US teenagers are at their lowest point since the mid-1970s, but marijuana use remains steady, according to the findings of a national survey released Wednesday.Some 18.7 percent of grade 12 high school students, typically aged 17 or ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two people were killed in a shooting at the Virginia Tech campus on Thursday, a university spokesman said.Police were apprehending one person, the Collegiate Times newspaper said, before issuing another Twitter message saying the "person who surrendered at Performance ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - High school dropouts on average receive $1,500 a year more from government than they pay in taxes because they are more likely to get benefits or to be in prison, according to a U.S. study released on Wednesday."Dropping out ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A third-grade teacher who resigned this week after parents accused her of dressing their daughters in lingerie and photographing them at a Christmas party was arrested on Thursday.Kimberly Crain, 47, was arrested at her home in Shawnee, Oklahoma, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many poor public schools do not pay teachers and educators as much as wealthier schools just a few miles away, according to a survey of 13,000 school districts the U.S. Department of Education released on Wednesday.The department found that ...
(Reuters) - More Minnesota school districts will borrow for cash-flow purposes in the current school year after the state delayed a chunk of education aid payments, according to a survey released on Wednesday.The St. Paul-based Association of Metropolitan School Districts, whose 42 ...
What parents who teach their own children want you to know A version of this story was posted at lasvegasweekly.com on Oct. 20. Here is a sampling of comments from our readers: Doubting grandparents will be won over by the love and ...
Program helping plan best routes for walking and biking to schoolOn a recent morning before school, a parent volunteer watched as a car door flew open, blocking the sidewalk directly in the path of a student on a bike who was barely ...
The decline bucks a nationwide trend fueled by Chinese studentsThe number of international students in Nevada has declined slightly even as national enrollment figures rose to a record high, according to a federal report released Monday.Nevada hosted 2,795 international students during the ...
"Excited," "nervous," "terrified" -- just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally.The 30 classroom professionals donned blue "astronaut" jumpsuits to defy gravity in the skies above ...
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