As many public schools have failed a post-apartheid generation of children from poor townships and rural areas, a budding movement is increasingly searching for alternatives.

The New York City schools are coping with budget cuts and crowding, but are finding resolve and hope.

Patients could be prescribed music tailored to their needs as a result of new university research.

Scientists begin a study to determine if an everyday vitamin supplement could help prevent a common birth defect.

A new study suggests high doses of B vitamins may halve the rate of brain shrinkage in older people experiencing some of the warning signs of Alzheimer's disease.

High doses of B vitamins may slow the rate of brain shrinkage in older people experiencing warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, a new study says.

Two Potomac high school students who were implicated last winter in a scheme to change grades by hacking into school computers have started a student group devoted to combating the ill effects of peer pressure.


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Teachers in Richmond County are beginning to use a computer program called mClass Reading 3D to record student responses to reading exercises and determine their strengths and weaknesses.

A longtime counselor seeks to put the rest the "myth,'' as he calls it, that top colleges prefer an SAT score to an ACT score.

New York Times and Learning Network resources to help you plan for the school year in science, health, math and technology.

Is "Night of the Living Dead" a simple zombie film or a subtle antiwar statement? Precisely when did viral pandemic supplant nuclear radiation as the lead cause of zombification? And which sort of animated dead has the greater potential to frighten: shambler or sprinter?


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More than half of Hawaii's public school teachers leave within five years of being hired, causing the state to search for new ways to retain their teachers.

PolarTrec, funded by the National Science Foundation, has sent about 50 mostly middle and high school teachers from the United States on research trips in the Arctic and Antarctic.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett will join Summer Advantage USA Founder Earl Martin Phalen to announce the results of the summer learning program. Over 3,000 students participated this year, resulting in substantial individual academic gains.

WHO:
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett
Earl Martin Phalen, Founder of Summer Advantage USA
David Harris, Founder and CEO of The Mind Trust
Nathanial Jones, Superintendent of MSD Pike Township
Donald Stinson, Superintendent of MSD Decatur Township
Summer Advantage students from Central Elementary

WHAT:
Summer Advantage USA student results

WHEN:
Thursday, September 9, 2010, at 1:30 p.m.

WHERE:
Central Elementary School Media Center
7001 Zionsville Rd.
Indianapolis, IN 46268

***Students will be available in a classroom setting following the press conference.

The prospect of hosting a student teacher has middle school language arts teacher Sarah Henchey contemplating her own practice.

Health officials seeking the source of a Legionnaires' outbreak which has been linked to the death of a 64-year-old woman are focusing on industrial premises

Educators have focused too much attention on the what of teaching, and not enough on "the far messier (but pivotal) how of teaching," writes Joseph Wise.

The injury into contaminated NHS blood products in the 1980s will hear from the victims who contracted HIV and Hepatitis.