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The PARDees, Lafayette's senior student-athlete awards ceremony, were held on Thursday evening at the Williams Center for the Arts. More than 100 student-athletes and their families celebrated the close of the Class of 2013's competitive careers. Four...

STANFORD — A rainbow over the Stuart Underwood Auditorium greeted the 68 newest graduates of Fort Logan High School Thursday, as they stepped out of school and into the rest of their lives. An hour and a half earlier, twin graduating seniors Candi...

Parents who want to see their elementary school-age children get excited about science and math can enroll them in Manchester Community College's Excursions in Learning Summer Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth. Classes are filling now for the program,...

It's known as the "lower" PE class, but some students at one northwest suburban high school simply call it "fat gym." Sophomore James Farquharson said his peers coined the term after Prospect High School adopted a new physical education curriculum...

Chicago Public Schools has removed a Dunbar Vocational Career Academy employee from his position after a video posted online appears to show him pushing a female student down a flight of stairs. The 16-year-old student’s family released a statement...

When Rosie Medynski arrives in Maryland to compete in the National History Day competition, she will be the first Manchester High School student to do so in nearly a decade. Medynski, a 16-year-old junior, chose to make an exhibit on Julia Chase-Brand,...

Students in the FLASH after-school program at Bennet Academy are getting a lesson in kindness. The 75 sixth grade students in the program were tasked two months ago with tallying 26 acts of kindness. Students are just now finishing up. Jocelyn...

Jeff Sheppard has high hopes for the highly touted recruits on their way to Kentucky, but he also has tempered expectations. The former Kentucky star said he’s excited about the players coach John Calipari is bringing into the program, and...

CHAMPAIGN -- Richard Linklater's sneakers squish-squish- squished against the wet tiles. We were walking the perimeter of the Illini Union, on the campus of theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. It was a stormy night in April, and students...

Florida students wrote better essays on this year's FCAT than in 2012 and its third graders posted slightly higher marks on the state's key reading exam, results from scores released today show. . The scores are the first wave of results from the 2013...

SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — A 17-year-old girl fatally shot at an event before a prom was a sophomore at Saginaw High School. School district spokeswoman Safiya Mosley identified her as Tonquinisha McKinley. The shooting occurred Thursday night in a...

If you have just finished college and have a job — congratulations. Still, even with a job, many new graduates are shocked when they find out how difficult it is to cover student loans and other expenses. Graduating with $20,000 in federal...