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Rhodes scholarship recipients for 2025 includes 32 US students

Nov. 17, 2024 04:27 AM EST

A group of 32 students from the United States have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year among an international class representing more than 70 nations, scholarship officials announced. Nearly 3,000 U.S....

Knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China leaves 8 dead and 17 injured

Nov. 17, 2024 02:30 AM EST

BEIJING (AP) — A stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi on Saturday left eight people dead and 17 others injured, local police said. The attack took place at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in Yixing, a smaller city within...

Texas A&M to mark 25th anniversary of campus bonfire collapse that killed 12

Nov. 17, 2024 00:39 AM EST

The first, ominous sounds came from deep within the massive stack of logs in the darkest hours of the Texas night. Witnesses described hearing the stack of thousands of logs moan and creak before the crack of the center pole as it snapped, then collapsed. More than a million pounds...

Ohio offers a new way to use public money for Christian schools. Opponents say it’s unconstitutional

Nov. 17, 2024 00:13 AM EST

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Around the country, advocates for Christian education have been finding legal ways to tap taxpayer money used more typically for public schools. One new approach in Ohio is benefiting schools tied to a burgeoning conservative political group and facing objections from...

Texas high school football Class 1A six-man area playoff pairings

Nov. 16, 2024 22:41 PM EST

Texas high school football Class 1A six-man area playoff sites and times from Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and TexasFootball.com, distributed by The Associated Press: CLASS 1A SIX-MAN DIVISION I Region I Regional Booker vs. Whiteface, 6:30...

More states are ditching exams as high school graduation requirements

Nov. 16, 2024 00:09 AM EST

BOSTON (AP) — When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state's standardized tests as a high school graduation requirement on Election Day, they joined a trend that has steadily chipped away at the use of high-stakes tests over the past two decades. The vote on the ballot...

Oregon school board chair resigns, superintendent and principal on leave over sex abuse arrests

Nov. 15, 2024 22:41 PM EST

ST. HELENS, Ore. (AP) — A school district in northwest Oregon has put its superintendent and high school principal on leave, accepted the school board chair's resignation and temporarily canceled classes in response to an uproar over the arrests of a teacher and former teacher on sexual abuse...

Court temporarily limits scope of ruling that Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is unconstitutional

Nov. 15, 2024 18:57 PM EST

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Friday temporarily limited the scope of a ruling that Louisiana’s law requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments in all classrooms next year is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles’...

Kiyan Anthony, son of Carmelo Anthony, says he will play college basketball at Syracuse

Nov. 15, 2024 18:17 PM EST
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Kiyan Anthony, son of Carmelo Anthony, says he will play college basketball at Syracuse.

Outside report calls on UCLA to develop clear plans and policies for major protests

Nov. 15, 2024 16:53 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of California, Los Angeles should develop clear plans and policies, communication lines and decision-making authority in advance of major protests such as the large student protests against the Israel-Hamas war that shook the campus this spring, according to an...