School Survival

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. - Seventeen-year-old Patrick Agin often spends a week whittling a single arrow, and he's learning to make chain mail armor by hand. So when it came time to submit a senior yearbook photo, he selected a snapshot of himself wearing chain mail and slinging a prop sword over his shoulder. Portsmouth High School […]

A 4-year-old boy has died and his mother and 3-year-old sister are hospitalized after an apartment fire Monday afternoon in Arlington."I flew out the window head first and I was just laying there a little bit blacked out," older sister Katrina Do said.Do bears visible scars of the tragedy her family suffered on Monday.She barely […]

From the HSDLA Mailing List: French homeschoolers are faced with a draconian bill which will be voted on by parliament within the next few days. We just received word about this bill today.Homeschooling is currently allowed in France. However, this bill would essentially outlaw homeschooling. No parent would be allowed to homeschool unless they showed […]

Education and business leaders urged an overhaul of the U.S. school system, including ending high school at the 10th grade for many students. Current teaching is failing to prepare young Americans for the global economy, members of a bipartisan panel said Thursday.Beginning teachers should earn more, according to the group, and money for this idea […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A former basketball coach at a Monument charter school in Colorado is being accused of dozens of counts of child abuse, sexual assault and other crimes.The Colorado Springs Gazette reported that Gregory Lynn Burr, 28, is accused of regularly hitting players in the groin, exposing them to pornography, and pouring water […]

MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) -- A scorpion stung David Sullivan on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then crawled up and down his left leg, he thinks, before getting him again in the shin.Not what he was expecting on his flight home from Chicago to Vermont.Sullivan, a 46-year-old builder from Stowe, was […]

Kyle Corbin has been sworn in as the mayor of Union, Oregon -- even though he's barely old enough to vote himself. And in his first hours on the job, the 18-year-old mayor is calling for unity in Union.The university freshman conducted his first City Council meeting two months after he was elected as a […]

BLOSSBURG, Pa. - Six-year-old Karlind Dunbar barely touched her dinner, but not for time-honored 6-year-old reasons. The pasta was not the wrong shape. She did not have an urgent date with her dolls.The problem was the letter Karlind discovered, tucked inside her report card, saying that she had a body mass index in the 80th […]

DANVILLE, Pa. - A 12-year-old special education student was charged with disorderly conduct after authorities said she deliberately wet her pants at school.Her mother told the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg that the girl urinated only because she was frightened by the principal.The girl, whose name was withheld by the newspaper, had worked with her classmates […]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist is theorizing. The Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life, so they didn't recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State […]