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June 9, 2007 · Anna House is a seven-day-a-week preschool on the backstretch at Belmont for the children of exercise riders and stable workers, and it just got a huge financial boost. Barbaro's owners won the Barbaro Stakes and gave $250,000 to the school.
Scientists at MIT have figured out a way to transmit electric power over the air.
Elementeo is a new board game being marketed by a junior high school student.
June 6, 2007 · The No Child Left Behind Act is up for renewal in Congress, and whether it is working remains in question. A new study shows test scores are rising. But it's unclear whether the education law should get the credit. For many educators, the verdict on the law is undetermined.
June 3, 2007 · Dr. Mary Jane Williams has been teaching nursing in Connecticut for more than 30 years. She talks with host Debbie Elliott about how to remedy the shortage of nurse educators.
June 4, 2007 · Some high schools are getting rid of a senior class tradition — naming a valedictorian. They say that lowering competition among students is better for their overall success. Eden Prairie High School in Minnesota will graduate its last valedictorians this year. Next year, exceptional students will receive just an honors diploma.
June 4, 2007 · Juanita Smith of Lima, Ohio, goes to her 70th high school reunion Monday. She graduated from Lima South High School in 1937, along with 188 other students. She says taking care of family and a strong belief in God are important to success.
June 1, 2007 · College financial aid officers have agreed to crack down on lender kickbacks and submit to monitoring by the New York attorney general's office. Columbia University and the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators will adhere to a new code of conduct.
May 28, 2007 · On June 15, the state of Missouri will take over and decertify the St. Louis School District. The controversial move is likely to accelerate student population loss. By losing accreditation, the district now has to pay neighboring districts to take students who want to transfer.
May 28, 2007 · Retired Brig. Gen. Rosetta Burke dreamed of becoming a nurse when she was a child. So she joined the Army Reserves to finance her way through nursing school. Three decades later she became the first female Assistant Adjutant Gen. of the Army National Guard.
May 25, 2007 · Andrew Engel just graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, with a bachelor's degree in health administration — despite having no short-term memory. Engel learned he had a brain tumor in 1995, when he was starting his freshman year in college. Treatment left him with no short-term memory.
May 25, 2007 · Charter schools are an increasingly popular alternative to traditional public schools. Ted Hamory, co-founder of New City Public Schools, and Jennifer Stern, a partner in the Charter School Growth Fund, talk to Farai Chideya about whether these schools are living up to their hype.
May 24, 2007 · Sumner Spence has cerebral palsy, but this evening he is set to get his degree and will address fellow graduates at the University of Delaware in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
May 23, 2007 · Sen. Hillary Clinton said this week that if she's elected president, she will ensure access to high-quality pre-school for all families in the United States. Advocates say the effects of quality pre-school last far beyond elementary school.
May 20, 2007 · The No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law in 2002, mandated standardized testing in the nation's public schools to establish a measure of accountability among states and school districts for the academic performance of their students. The pressures of such testing are most acutely felt among the schools which perennially have low scores, like Northwestern High School in Baltimore.
