Republicans to back Obama's student loan plan House Republicans are willing to give President Barack Obama a rare win, the chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee said Thursday in outlining a deal that would let college students avoid a costly hike on their student loans. More
Police confiscate 4-foot, 2-pound marijuana joint California police confiscated a mammoth joint during a 4/20 pot rally on Saturday, reports the Los Angeles Times. As the paper notes, hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gather each year for the event, and each year campus police confiscate things like bongs and dime bags. More
At Cabrini University, there will be no next year: A chronicling of its final semester Nothing could prepare employees and students at the school, which has closely followed Mother Cabrini’s “education of the heart” mission, for the toll an imminent closure would take. 05/18/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey has fans hyped after ruining Mystik Dan’s Triple Crown dreams Horse racing fans may have been hoping for a Triple Crown run this year by Mystik Dan after that horse won the Kentucky Derby, but Seize the Grey and legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas were not about to ... 05/18/2024 - 1:42 pm | View Link
4-Day School Weeks Are a Raw Deal for Kids—and Their Parents The money-saving measure happening in districts throughout the country leaves too many kids without anything to do—or in some cases, anything to eat. 05/17/2024 - 5:32 am | View Link
I'm an American mom living in Germany. Here schools days are shorter and there are more vacations throughout the year. I'm an American living in Germany with my kids. Their experience of elementary school is so different to what I had in the US. 05/15/2024 - 9:08 pm | View Link
Kids descend to the bunker at Ukraine's first underground school Two teachers met them with a smile at the steel door, and down the concrete staircase the mother and daughter clattered, hand in hand, through another blast door and into the bunker for the first day ... 05/14/2024 - 2:02 am | View Link