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For much of her teaching career, Carrie Stark relied on math games to engage her students, assuming they would pick up concepts like multiplication by seeing them in action. The kids had fun, but the lessons never stuck. A few years ago she shifted her approach, turning to more direct explanation after finding a website [...]
NEW YORK — In a mammoth room behind translucent marble walls, workers are setting the stage for the World Trade Center's newest addition. It isn't another office tower, nor is it a monument, at least explicitly, to the memory of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It's a theater complex. Envisioned two decades ago to add [...]
NELSONVILLE — Some 40 Native American tribes have ancestral ties to Wayne National Forest, a quarter-million acres spread across portions of Appalachian southeastern Ohio. Their citizens have never stopped helping the U.S. Forest Service manage this expanse of forested hills, hollows, streams and lakes — even as the name recalls a violent past. Now, a [...]
DETROIT (AP) — Davion Williams wants to go to college. A counselor at his Detroit charter school last year helped him visualize that goal, but he knows he'll need more help to navigate the application process. He was discouraged, however, to learn the high school where he just began his sophomore year had laid off [...]
State agriculture officials reported last month that the amount of farmland preserved through agreements between landowners and the Ohio Department of Agriculture grew by approximately 400 acres. The six most recently added farms — two in Seneca County, three in Allen County and a single farm in Coshocton County — joined 15 others that have [...]
When the NFL season kicks off this week, Kentucky residents and visitors — for the first time — will be able to legally place sports bets on something other than horse racing. When they do, some of that money will also fund the state's first-ever program for people with gambling problems. Since the U.S. Supreme [...]
COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine (AP) — Plans to build the world's tallest flagpole are being delayed — again. The tiny town of Columbia Falls in Maine is extending its moratorium on big developments for another six months following a proposal for a flagpole taller than the Empire State Building, with an observation deck and a flag [...]
On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind an elementary school. One by one, they raced to a table, where they scribbled answers to multiplication questions before sprinting back to high-five their teammate. The students were part of a summer program operated by the non-profit School Connect [...]
PAUL, Minn. (AP) — When classes resume after Labor Day, Amber Lightfeather won't have to worry about where her children's next meals will be coming from. They'll be free. Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, Vermont, Michigan, and Massachusetts will make school breakfasts and lunches permanently free to all students starting this academic year, regardless of family [...]
Officials at Ohio Dominican University say the school has received the largest donation on record for the 112-year-old, private liberal arts institution. University officials last week reported that an anonymous donor made a $3 million-challenge gift to support scholarships for students. “I am immensely grateful to our anonymous donor for their significant generosity in making [...]