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Closing Schools

2010-03-10T19:32:10Z

Members of the Kansas City School Board listen to citizens during a meeting, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City school board voted to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

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KC superintendent says school closings are painful

2010-03-11T08:00:40Z

<div id="subtitle">Kansas City superintendent says closing half its schools is painful but 'right thing to do'</div><div><p>Kansas City School Superintendent John Covington says the decision to close almost half the district's schools was difficult and painful but "unquestionably the right thing to do."</p><p>The Kansas City school board voted 5-4 ...

APTOPIX Closing Schools

2010-03-10T19:32:08Z

Superintendent John Covington listens to citizens during a meeting of the Kansas City School Board, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City school board voted to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

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Report: States team up on new academic standards

2010-03-10T00:18:20Z

<div id="subtitle">Report: Governors, state school leaders team up on new academic standards</div><div><p>Governors and state education leaders are proposing a new set of standards to define what should be taught in the nation's public schools, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.</p><p>The new benchmarks, to be announced Wednesday, are meant to replace standards that vary...

Teacher backs SUV into Mich. preschool classroom

2010-03-09T12:30:07Z

<div><p>A teacher trying to park her SUV Tuesday backed through a large window and into a classroom at the suburban Detroit school where she taught, slightly injuring several preschool students, authorities said.</p><p>The teacher was trying to park her Jeep outside Huda School & Montessori, a private Islamic school, and hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, Villa...

jennifer garner 4

2010-03-05T18:47:58Z

Jennifer Garner arrives to pick up her daughter Violet Affleck from pre-school Santa Monica, California - 04.03.10

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Suicide Pact

2010-03-04T13:04:10Z

In this Monday, March 1, 2010 photo, a poster that was left at a makeshift memorial to Gina Gentile and Vanessa Dorwart is shown, in Norwood, Pa. The high school sophomores were killed by an Amtrak Acela train in what was believed to be a suicide pact. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

NEW YORK - MARCH 04: Speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno speaks to students at Robert Wagner Middle School on March 4, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Rob Loud/Getty Images)

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Idaho plan would pay kids to graduate early

2010-03-03T11:00:26Z

<div id="subtitle">States make it easier for high school students to graduate early, take college classes</div><div><p>Every high school has at least a handful of them, gifted students who blow through Faulkner as if it were a comic book, teenagers who catch on to calculus as if it were checkers.</p><p>These students are often just marking time in high school and typically become bored and withdrawn as they long for a bigger academic challenge.</p><p&...

Colo School Shooting

2010-03-01T13:17:07Z

In this photo provided by Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010, Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood is shown. Eastwood is accused of wounding two middle school students at Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colo. on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)

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Students welcome Obama statue in Jakarta school

2010-02-22T07:45:16Z

<div id="subtitle">Students at Obama's former school in Indonesia welcome arrival of disputed statue</div><div><p>Children at an Indonesian elementary school eagerly welcomed the arrival of a statue of a former student called "Little Barry" and were excited by the prospect that he might pay them a visit next month as president of the United States.</p><p>...

jennifer garner and violet

2010-02-19T18:02:40Z

Jennifer Garner picks up her daughter Violet Affleck from her pre-school class in Santa Monica Los Angeles, California - 18.02.10

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Obama concedes he didn't always do math homework

2010-02-22T08:11:47Z

&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Obama on whether he did his math homework in high school: 'Sometimes'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go figure. President Barack Obama didn't always do his math homework.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A math teacher at Friday's town hall asked whether Obama, as a high school freshman, got math homework every night and if so, did he c...

Psychiatrist: coach murder suspect was delusional

2010-02-22T08:32:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Psychiatrist says Iowa football coach murder suspect had been delusional days before killing</div><div><p>A psychiatrist testified Thursday that a former football player accused in the shooting death of his high school coach had been suffering from severe delusions but that his condition had improved a day before the killing.</p><p>Testimony Thursday prov...

Mary J. Blige At Disney World

2010-02-16T15:47:01Z

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FL - FEBRUARY 14: In this handout photo provided by Disney, Grammy Award-winning singer Mary J. Blige poses with Minnie Mouse at Epcot on February 14, 2010 in Lake Bue...

Teacher accused of shooting 2 principals at school

2010-02-22T10:19:07Z

<div><p>An elementary school teacher is accused of shooting and wounding the principal and assistant principal at his school Wednesday about an hour after the children were dismissed because of snow.</p><p>Police charged Mark Stephen Foster, 48, of Clinton, with two counts of attempted first-degree murder after the shooting at Inskip Elementary School. The school Web site identifie...

jennifer garner violet

2010-02-08T17:32:15Z

Jennifer Garner picks up her daughter from pre-school class in Santa Monica Los Angeles, California - 08.02.10

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jennifer garner violet 2

2010-02-08T17:31:55Z

Jennifer Garner picks up her daughter from pre-school class in Santa Monica Los Angeles, California - 08.02.10

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Farm to School program changes kids' views on food

2010-02-22T10:51:32Z

<div id="subtitle">Farm to School program plants seeds of healthy eating in kids</div><div><p>The third and fourth graders at Sharon Elementary know where the veggies in their soup come from because they've visited the farms. They know the nutritional value of the carrots, onions and cabbage because they've studied them in class, and they know how they're grown because they've nurtured them in raised beds out back.</p><...