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Warren Zanes, executive director of Steven Van Zandt's Rock and Roll Forever Foundation (RRFF), is scheduled to speak at the  -More- 

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Fill in the blanks in the first six paragraphs of the article “Anarchy in the Met” by Jon Caramanica.    

Will Walker, who was accepted to Williams College under a binding early decision application, felt like he “made a mistake” just before a recent campus visit.    

Wilson High School’s principal, who told parents that students could lose their eligibility to play school sports if they failed to show up for the District’s annual standardized testing, has rescinded the policy.

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They had to quickly spout knowledge about Punnett squares, diffractive scattering, Gila monsters and vectors. They also had to name the parts of a cell where RNA is made, then calculate the product of 84 and 96.

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A new report released Monday shows that funding for preschool programs across the country fell by an unprecedented $500 million in the 2011-12 school year as enrollment stalled and more programs saw a drop in quality than improvement.

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School officials and other townspeople in Rochelle, Ga., are defending a whites-only prom after social media propelled the news of a separate, integrated prom.

What are your favorite things? Have they always been your favorites?    

Current efforts to improve the evaluation process will prove futile without input from classroom teachers, write Ross Wiener and Kasia Lundy.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the federal government should not have reduced its funding to South Carolina before allowing an appeal, and that the state should get its money back until U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan makes a final decision.

Every Monday we publish a New York Times photo without a caption, headline or other information about its origins. Join the conversation by posting about what you see, and why.    

Rather than recommend majors of the future, here are four activities to help develop the skills necessary to succeed in the work force of tomorrow. If you focus on these activities, the majors won’t matter as much.