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Center Grove students put best inventions forward
A class of Center Grove students has spent the school year tinkering with smartphones, power adapters and basketballs while trying to invent products. The students, 11 seniors and one junior, all had ideas at the start of the school year for products they thought people would want. Their ideas included ...
Center Grove students put best inventions forward
Central Indiana high school students are putting their best ideas forward as they develop inventions and market them to local businesses. The 11 students at Center Grove High School used three-dimensional computer programs to create drawings of their products. They updated the plans as they discovered which features didn't work ...
Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical
Reading, writing, arithmetic — and PE? The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject. The report, released Thursday, says only about half of the nation's youngsters are getting ...
Imprisoned Ohio Amish may skip high school classes
Amish imprisoned in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio have been granted a religious freedom exemption from a requirement to attend high school equivalency classes behind bars. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons said Wednesday that Amish bishop Samuel Mullet and his followers would be exempted from the policy requiring ...
Hattiesburg may cut 20 teaching positions
Hattiesburg Public School District Superintendent James Bacchus is proposing to eliminate the majority of a $1.8 million budget shortfall by cutting 20 teacher positions. Bacchus tells the Hattiesburg American (http://hatne.ws/10V4PZm ) his plan to lay off teachers must be approved by the Hattiesburg Public School District Board of Trustees. The ...
Md. students see their films on the big screen
Downtown Silver Spring isn't exactly Hollywood, but for Montgomery County middle school students, it was transformed into a scene as thrilling as any L.A. movie premiere Wednesday. Silver Spring International Middle School students filled the seats of the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to see their documentaries and films ...
Cent. Pa. students try to hopscotch to record
Students at a central Pennsylvania elementary school slated to close hope they can hopscotch their way into the Guinness Book of World Records before the school's doors are shut for good. The students at Round Hills Elementary School in Lycoming County were joined by parents, administrators and community members in ...
Pawtucket school closed after ceiling collapse
A Pawtucket elementary school is closed for the rest of the week after a portion of the ceiling collapsed in a basement classroom. School officials say a 6-feet-by-10-feet section of the ceiling collapsed on Wednesday at the Potter Burns Elementary School. No one was in the area, and no one ...
Ex-Mass. lawmaker facing meth trafficking charges
A former Massachusetts lawmaker who more recently worked as a tutor at a Boston charter school has been held on $10,000 bail after pleading not guilty to drug charges. Authorities say 57-year-old Stephen Doran (DOHR'-un) was arrested this week after allegedly receiving a package containing nearly 500 grams of methamphetamine ...
Lisbon man gets 4 years for identity fraud
A Lisbon man who used his own child's Social Security number in a scheme to illegally receive welfare benefits has been sentenced to four years in prison. Federal prosecutors say 34-year-old Mark Judd was also ordered Wednesday to pay more than $29,000 in restitution. Judd pleaded guilty in January to ...
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