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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The federal Health and Human Services Department often failed to perform required background checks on workers at emergency holding centers for migrant children who crossed the United States-Mexico border alone during a surge in 2021, the agency's internal watchdog has found. The inspector general's report released last week raises questions about [...]
Test scores in history and civics have declined slightly for eighth grade students, according to results that show an increasing number of children lack a basic understanding of either subject. The scores were released this week by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The same assessment reported in October that every single state had seen [...]
First came the good news. After taking classes at a community college, Ricki Korba was admitted to California State University, Bakersfield, as a transfer student, but when she logged on to her student account, she got a gut punch: Most of her previous classes wouldn't count. The university rejected most of her science classes, she [...]
CORDOVA, N.M. — Ever since missionaries started building churches out of mud 400 years ago in what was the isolated frontier of the Spanish empire, tiny mountain communities such as Cordova relied on their own resources to keep the faith going. Thousands of miles from religious and lay seats of power, everything from priests to [...]
EAST PALESTINE (AP) — Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that serves as a nightstand — his pickup truck parked just outside the door at the roadside motel where he's taken refuge since early February. Shelby [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — Demolition will soon begin on a resort once favored by Elvis Presley and other Hollywood royalty before it was heavily damaged by a hurricane three decades ago. The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. The resort is [...]
Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars. The battle has reached into homes via commercials for Hooked [...]
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — In many school shootings, the person who pulled the trigger — often a current or former student — is the only one blamed for the crime. The arrest last week of a mother, whose 6-year-old son shot his teacher, and a related investigation of school employees, however, shows that parents [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It's almost 4 p.m. at the Nashville branch of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology and the students in the auto collision repair night class are just starting their school day. One student is sanding the seal off the bed of his 1989 Ford F-350. Another is patiently hammering out a [...]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The 12 United States soldiers died in a pine forest in South Carolina in 1780, their bodies hastily buried beneath a thin layer of soil as their comrades fled from the British who appeared ready to put a quick and brutal end to the American Experiment. Later this month, however, the [...]