Education News

The Johns Hopkins University Student Government Association’s judiciary arm has overturned a March decision by the student-run senate to deny “official group status” to Voice for Life, an antiabortion advocacy and awareness group.

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I recently wrote a post about a Tennessee state senator who has advanced legislation that would cut welfare payments to families whose kids get really bad report cards and test scores.

The senator is Stacey Campfield, a Republican, who was quoted in the Knoxville News Sentinel as saying this was a great way to "break the cycle of poverty."

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Bryan Stromer, a student at the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, is excited to attend Vanderbilt University after experiencing Southern hospitality for the first time during a campus visit.    

AppleTree strives to meld curriculum, professional development, and student monitoring at seven District of Columbia charter schools, fueled by $5 million in federal Investing in Innovation aid.

How I found Thoreau — and avoided a life of debt-ridden desperation — by living in my van as a graduate student at Duke University.    

Marie Bigham, a veteran college counselor, and Mark Kantrowitz, an expert on paying for college, answer select reader questions about where to enroll. Part 3.    

Why do you think it is important for Syria to protect its ancient sites and ruins?    

Can you calculate the approximate ratio of a recent cyberattack’s data stream speed to the typical home cable Internet connection’s upload speed?    

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This word has appeared in four New York Times articles in the past year.    

A parallel world of pseudo-academia, with prestigiously titled conferences and journals that will print seemingly anything for a fee, has the scientific community alarmed.    

New standards for curriculum, which at least 26 states have pledged to consider, take a firm stand on climate change and evolution and emphasize hands-on learning.    

Officials arrested a 21-year-old student, saying he appeared to have attacked students on Tuesday “at random” before being wrestled to the ground.    

New D.C. public charter schools would be allowed to give admissions preference to neighborhood children under a bill introduced Tuesday by D.C. Council Member David Grosso (I-At Large).

Charter schools currently enroll kids from across the city, holding lotteries if there is more demand than space. That approach gives students equal access to admission — but it can also shut them out of the school down the street.

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A Damascus High School student says she was “harassed and intimidated by teachers and an assistant principal for refusing to stand” during the Pledge of Allegiance.

Tenth-grader Enidris Siurano-Rodriguez said she was sent to the assistant principal’s office on April 4 for not taking part in the Pledge of Allegiance, according to the ACLU of Maryland, which is representing the family.

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An advocacy group focused on bringing healthier meals to Fairfax County students has won a $25,000 grant to help improve school meal nutrition.

Real Food for Kids, a Fairfax-based organization founded by school parents, received the grant from the Myles D. and Faye J. Sampson foundation. The money will fund Real Food for Kids events and programs for a year, according to the group.

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