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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....

Inside a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children is a complicated history of slavery and resilience

Nov. 01, 2024 17:03 PM EDT

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a curriculum that justified slavery. The museum, Colonial Williamsburg, also...

The brutal story behind California’s new Native American genocide education law

Oct. 10, 2024 17:19 PM EDT

In the 1860s, an armed militia swept into the historic land of the Serrano people in the San Bernardino mountains and went on a killing spree, attempting to slaughter the entire tribe. A tribal leader named Santos Manuel led the surviving 30 members to safety in a nearby valley. Now,...

First US high school with an all-basketball curriculum names court after Knicks' Julius Randle

Sep. 25, 2024 14:46 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The court at the nation's first high school with a curriculum designed around a career in basketball will be named for New York Knicks All-Star Julius Randle. The announcement was made Wednesday at a groundbreaking ceremony for the new, 69,000-square-foot building...

Qatar is the second Muslim nation whose citizens can travel to the US without a visa

Sep. 24, 2024 15:07 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The Gulf nation of Qatar on Tuesday became just the second Muslim-majority country to be admitted into a program that allows its citizens to travel to the United States without first obtaining a U.S. visa. The departments of State and Homeland Security jointly...

Do you know the 3 branches of US government? Many don't, leading to a push for civics education

Sep. 16, 2024 14:28 PM EDT

BLUFFTON, South Carolina (AP) — On the first day of his American National Government class, Prof. Kevin Dopf asks how many of his students are United States citizens. Every hand shoots up. “So, how did all you people become citizens?” he asks. “Did you pass a test?” ...

US announces $700 million in aid for Ukraine's energy grid, health and education programs and more

Sep. 11, 2024 12:50 PM EDT
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — US announces $700 million in aid for Ukraine's energy grid, health and education programs and more.

Rutgers orders investigation of gymnastics program following allegations of abuse by coach

Sep. 07, 2024 22:03 PM EDT

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers has hired a law firm to conduct an investigation into athlete allegations of bullying, favoritism and revenge by the coach of the gymnastics program. President Jonathan Holloway announced earlier this week the university hired Lowenstein Sandler...

How to pick the best preschool or child care center for your child

Sep. 07, 2024 08:21 AM EDT

Preschool options are growing with the expansion of early learning programs, giving families in some parts of the U.S. a dizzying array of choices. Some states, like Colorado and New Mexico, are funneling state money into existing private preschools or child care centers. Others,...

Condoms can't be trusted and boys don't cry in Catholic Paraguay's first sex ed program

Sep. 03, 2024 17:18 PM EDT

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Ahead of her 15th birthday, Diana Zalazar's body had gotten so big she could no longer squeeze into the dress she bought for her quinceañera to celebrate her passage into womanhood in Paraguay. Her mother sought help from a doctor, who suspected that...