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Philip Marcinek spent 18 years helping students at Windber Area High School as a social studies teacher and sports coach. Even though he passed away last school year, his legacy is still helping students achieve their dreams. In his honor, his wife, Rita...

The notice in the mail told Carmen Olmeda she could transfer her profoundly disabled daughter out of Orange County's F-rated Magnolia School. But there is no other county school that can meet the needs of 18-year-old Loly, who needs hourly glucose...

Beads of sweat dripped down Jitu Brown’s face as he addressed about 150 marchers who had gathered on Sunday afternoon outside Overton Elementary School in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. The school at East 49th Street and South Indiana...

The sudden, mysterious death of 13-year-old Braulio Salas, a seventh grade student at Indian Ridge Middle in Davie, shocked parents and fellow students. But they have quickly rallied to raise more than $4,000 (and counting) to help the Salas family to...

The Pi Theta Chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society at Hagerstown Community College recently received several awards at the Phi Theta Kappa Regional Convention. The HCC Pi Theta Chapter was awarded the Five Star Chapter Development Award; the 2013...

The nursing students from Towson University at University System of Maryland at Hagerstown attended and participated in the Health Occupations Students of America  competition as judges for the state event on April 18. It was the 34th annual state...

Oklahoma State created a publicity firestorm Friday when the school reportedly decided to severely limit the transfer options for sophomore quarterback Wes Lunt. It was a bizarre twist, in what to this point, had been a cordial divorce between the two...

Mike Williams recalls having only one black, male teacher during his K-12 education in Montgomery County, Md. “I felt a bit isolated. That’s coming from me, and I was fairly popular. I was an athlete,” said Williams, 43, now a social...

Students at Consolidated High School District 230 will get the chance to hear world-renowned speakers visiting the Chicago area and participate in a sports medicine symposium next spring thanks to $25,000 in grants from the District 230 Foundation....

Some big curriculum changes could be coming for Arlington Heights' most advanced students. The phase-out of the existing Odyssey Program and a push for a controversial teaching model known as "differentiation" were among the eight recommendations...

And they're doctors. The first class of medical students to come out of the University of Central Florida College of Medicine graduated Friday morning during a ceremony on the UCF campus. The charter class of 36 graduates also was the first class of...

As the founder of KIPP Baltimore, which operates two high-performing public charter schools in the city, I am heartened and encouraged by our progress over the past six years under schools CEO Andrés Alonso. As I move to a new role as executive director...