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Archdiocese announces results of survey on two new schools

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which has not built a Catholic high school since 1998, yesterday took a step toward building two facilities in fast-growing areas of Bucks and Montgomery Counties. Read more


Sport stacking picking up speed in schools

Lunch at Maude M. Wilkins Elementary School in Maple Shade usually finds principal Scott Arnauer sitting on the cafeteria floor with 12 plastic cups, challenging his third and fourth graders to a game of sport stacking. Read more


Rutgers is reaping rewards of winning

The Scarlet Knights have three regular-season games to play, but Rutgers' glass slipper is already showing signs of turning to gold. Read more


Director of MIT neuroscience center resigns

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Students honor school namesake, Alta S. Leary, 98.

For decades, Alta S. Leary has smiled at the students of her namesake school from a portrait that hangs in the lobby. Yesterday, she smiled from the auditorium stage as they honored her 98th birthday with a promise to follow her example of always treating others with kindness and respect. Read more


Personal Security and Identity Theft Expert Encourages Educators to Equip Laptop Computers with GPS Tracking Technology

Robert Siciliano, president of IDTheftSecurity.com, encourages educators to equip portable computers with affordable safeguards such as GPS tracking technology and systems for remote retrieval and deletion of data. Read more


Writer's Residency in Puerto Vallarta Application Deadline January 1

Application deadline for the annual one-month Writer's Spring Residency in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico is set for January 1, 2007. Residency candidates must submit application information found on the Contests page of the sponsor's website, www.BelleCora.com. Read more


Poker Online U.S. - US Online Poker Players Continue

Poker players in the US stay they will continue to play poker online in US at certain poker sites accepting US players. Read more


Online Poker in the USA

After a nerve wrecking week of poker sites battening down the hatches to the USA, online poker in the USA was left with some sites still standing. Read more


College leaders take it to the bank

Several presidents of colleges and universities in the region are among the nation's top earners in higher education, according to a survey being released today. Read more


Fraternity house fire kills 1, injures 3

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School named for key player in Brown v. Board decision

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32 college students selected as Rhodes Scholars

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Angry UCLA students demand probe of Taser incident

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Study: More college presidents earning $500,000

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European universities fear "Americanization"

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School bus veers off interstate, 3 students killed

A school bus carrying 43 students in Huntsville, Alabama, plunged some 30 feet off the side of a highway overpass Monday, killing at least three students, according to school, police and fire officials. Read more


State seeks to run schools Pa. asked Commonwealth Court to give it complete control over the troubled Chester Upland district.

The mother of a Chester High School junior described continuing chaos at the school to a Commonwealth Court judge at a hearing in Philadelphia yesterday, and Pennsylvania's secretary of education talked about what he would do to fix things in the troubled district. Read more


Penn students guilty in '05 hazing incident

Two University of Pennsylvania students were convicted yesterday and each sentenced by a Philadelphia judge to nine months' probation for their roles in an October 2005 fraternity hazing incident. Read more


A sign of hope for Amish

Three of the five girls who survived last month's massacre at the West Nickel Mines Amish School have returned to classes, as their community tries to adjust to what some are calling a "new normal." Read more


College students sound off on a military draft

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Court orders more funding for NYC schools

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Students break record by reading aloud for 6 straight days

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Investigators probe car's role in deadly bus crash

National Transportation Safety Board investigators were in Huntsville on Tuesday, trying to determine what caused a school bus to plunge off a highway overpass the day before. Read more


Students set the rules at New York City school

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