This week in the medical journals

Focused on bird flu

This week in the medical journals

Focused on bird flu

This week in the medical journals

Focused on bird flu

Senators: No need to sell forests for schools

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two Democratic senators said Thursday they have found a way to pay for a program to fund rural schools without selling 300,000 acres of national forests, as the Bush administration has proposed.

State takes over 11 Baltimore schools

BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- The Maryland board of education voted Wednesday to take control of four Baltimore high schools and seven middle schools, citing the federal No Child Left Behind Act as a justification.

Teachers, students find lessons in walkouts

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Teachers and students are turning the pro-immigration walkouts that have emptied high schools across Southern California into a real-life lesson about immigration policy, the lawmaking process and civic duty itself.

House debates higher education update

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House began a push Wednesday to restrain college costs and make it easier for students to seek federal aid.

One fourth of schools fail 'no child' standards

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than a fourth of the nation's schools failed to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Law last year, according to preliminary numbers reported to the Department of Education.

Fighting childhood obesity in school

ROCHESTER, Minnesota (AP) -- The fidgety boys and girls in Phil Rynearson's classroom get up and move around whenever they want, and that's just fine with him.

Study: Child well-being improving

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Children have shown few gains in educational achievement over the past three decades, a sour note in a broad social report card that also cites declines in drug use, pregnancy rates and crime.

Poll: 20 percent of teens get enough sleep

WASHINGTON (AP) -- They drive drowsy, oversleep and doze off in class: Many of America's adolescents are going through life sleep-deprived.

'Class of Katrina' shares one last dance

PASS CHRISTIAN, Mississippi (AP) -- Wearing a canary yellow strapless evening gown, Jessica Jenkins walked across the remains of her home, raising her petticoat to keep it out of the red clay.

More foreigners seek U.S. graduate degrees

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- More foreigners applied to U.S. graduate schools for 2006 autumn classes, reversing two years of declines caused by visa delays due to increased post-September 11 security, a new report said Thursday.

Stressing out over financial aid negotiations

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's panic time in many American homes as parents struggle to evaluate the financial aid packages for their soon-to-be college freshmen children -- and figure out what to do if they don't get enough.

2,000 Katrina refugees fail Texas exam

DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- Young Hurricane Katrina refugees living in Texas scored considerably worse on a statewide standardized exam than Texas children, and thousands of them could be held back.

SAT owner sharply criticized on disclosures

(AP) -- Another revelation about scoring errors on last October's SAT exam has the College Board, the test's owner, under heavy criticism even from admissions officers -- a group that relies on the SAT and typically supports it.

NYC schools to get billions more in funding

NEW YORK (AP) -- A state appeals court on Thursday ordered Governor George Pataki and lawmakers to spend at least $4.7 billion more per year on New York City schools, saying current funding levels violated the state Constitution.

Penn pays tuition for low-income students

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- The University of Pennsylvania said Thursday that it will pay tuition and room-and-board for students whose families earn less than $50,000 a year.

Florida high school students may pick majors

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) -- Lila and Andrew Zoghbi are bored five days a week in classes at Chiles High School.

College Board finds more SAT scoring errors

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The College Board apologized to high school students and college admissions offices after acknowledging that more students received mistakenly low scores on the SAT exam, a mistake discovered just as many students await college admission decisions.