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As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.

Excessive absences, spending key reasons

President Obama's plan to speak to the nation's schoolchildren in a video address next week erupted into controversy as critics claimed he was trying to indoctrinate America's kids.

Educators face jail in Florida

8.16.09 - Julia Duin - Throughout the month of Ramadan, which begins Friday, the Cattaneo children won't have to worry about explaining to teachers and friends why they're fasting every day.That's because they're home-schooled...

"We are simply and honestly exercising the freedom of religion that is protected by the Constitution," he wrote.

President Obama's nominee for surgeon general, whose job it is to help encourage Americans to get thinner and healthier, has been working part time as a scientific adviser to the fast-food giant that sells sandwiches like the Whopper and BK Triple Stacker.

More than half of today's young people say they hold different values than the Woodstock generation, but a surprisingly large percentage of today's youth think earlier generations had the better morals, a new poll by the Pew Research Center has found.

8.7.09 - By Douglas M. Johnston - No one doubts that the key to impacting the hearts and minds of Pakistan's rising generation of leaders starts with educational reforms in the grade schools and high schools.

Ward and June Cleaver wouldn't begin to comprehend the latest additions to student codes of conduct.