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The 208 members of the Owensboro High School Class of 2013 hold a special place in Superintendent Larry Vick's heart. They were in the first grade in 2001, when Vick, superintendent of the Paris, Tenn., Special School District, was chosen to lead the...

Condom vending machines will return to Lynchburg College in the fall. Although condoms always are available to students for free through the school's health center and resident advisors in the dorms, more than a decade has passed since the school has...

A recent study suggests that kindergarten teachers spend too much time teaching students skills they already know. Specifically, teachers reported spending as much as 13 days a month on counting and basic shapes, even though 95 percent of children can...

In attempting to bring "MOOCs" to the world of teacher training, the Silicon Valley company Coursera and its partners at universities and other institutions are courting a new and potentially vast audience, one that is becoming increasingly accustomed...

Today the News Sentinel announces its second annual Top 20 Scholars Awards, naming our picks for the brightest and best students in our region. These students have received one or more national-level honors such as acing ACT (36) or SAT (2400) tests,...

Leadership Franklin County held its inaugural graduation ceremony Tuesday on the Arkansas Tech University-Ozark campus, with a reception following. LFC develops current and emerging leaders to work together to serve the good of Franklin County and the...

A 77-year-old man lay still on an upstairs bed as a 911 dispatcher gave instructions for resuscitation attempts that proved futile late Wednesday night. His wife would be charged with his murder. "She said that she just choked her husband to death,"...

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center said Thursday it has named Dr. David Zhao as chief of its cardiology department and director of its Heart and Vascular Center. The appointments take effect July 1. Zhao currently serves in several roles at Vanderbilt...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parents whose children are struggling with math often view intense tutoring as the best way to help them master crucial skills, but a new study released on Monday suggests that for some kids even that is a lost cause. According to...

Political scientists and operatives, including top Democrats, say that Gov. Bill Haslam's reputation of integrity is mostly shielding him -- for now, at least -- from the tarnish that allegations from a federal investigation has placed on his family...

The jury was out for more than three months on what the new Republican supermajority in the Tennessee legislature would do with its unchecked power. The majorities elected last November were so big there would be a quorum to pass laws and change rules...

Joseph E. Welsh, a retired Baltimore County public school educator who was also a hospice volunteer and Eucharistic minister, died Monday of melanoma at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Oak Crest Village resident was 80. "He was both my teacher and...