Homeless science whiz gets $50,000 scholarship

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Obama is the geekiest president ever For a president who promotes technology at every opportunity, Barack Obama often strikes an awed pose in the presence of technicians, scientists and high tech machinery. "If I'm nodding, you should just assume that everything you said is going completely over my head," he once told winners... - Posted on February 7, 2012
Southern schools have most junk food, obesity Junk food remains plentiful at America's elementary schools despite widespread efforts to curb childhood obesity. Between 2006 and 2010, nearly half of public and private schools surveyed sold sweet or salty snack foods in vending machines or other places, according to Lindsey Turner, a he... - Posted on February 6, 2012
Helicopter makes emergency landing at school Authorities say a helicopter encountered mechanical problems before making an emergency landing at an elementary school playground in a Modesto, Calif., neighborhood. Neighborhood resident Susanna Ballard said the helicopter was shaking badly as it flew over Sunday morning, and that she th... - Posted on February 6, 2012
Textbooks becoming history, dust, vapor... Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools? Education Secretary Arne Duncan challenged schools and companies to get digital textbooks in students' hands within five years. The Obama administration's push comes two weeks after Apple Inc. announced it wou... - Posted on February 1, 2012
Firemen rescue student stuck in vending machine The Amherst Fire Department in Massachusetts was called to the local middle school for an unusual rescue. A student got her arm stuck in a vending machine. Assistant Chief Donald McKay says firefighters were called to Amherst-Pelham Regional Middle School on Thursday to free the gir... - Posted on January 29, 2012
Misspelled 'SHCOOL' sign replaced in NYC An embarrassing misspelling of "school" is gone from the street outside a New York City school building. Utility workers used heavy machinery to grind up the wrongly placed "H'' and "C'' in the "SHCOOL X-NG" sign on Tuesday. The correction was made a day after the New York Post repo... - Posted on January 25, 2012
Spelling counts. No apple for the Big Apple. Everyone who's ever gone to school should know how to spell "school." But someone who plastered a school crossing sign on the street in front of a New York City high school got it wrong. The big white letters in front of Marta Valle High School on the Lower East Side say "SHCOOL X-N... - Posted on January 25, 2012
Recess before lunch = higher test scores Recess at Wilson Elementary School, Janesville, Wisconsin is just what you'd expect: Fourth-graders climbing, jumping, running and generally having a good time on an unseasonably warm January morning. But something is different — so different in fact, that the principal thinks it could l... - Posted on January 23, 2012
Apple says textbooks are out, iPads are in Apple wants to make the iPad a replacement for a backpack full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books. The electronic textbooks, which include "Biology" and "Environmental Science" from Pearson and "Algebra 1" and "Chemistry" from Mc... - Posted on January 19, 2012
Homeless science whiz gets $50,000 scholarship The accolades continue for a homeless New York teen who's a semifinalist in a prestigious national science contest. Brentwood High School senior Samantha Garvey appeared Thursday as a guest on the "Ellen" talk show, where she received a $50,000 scholarship from AT&T to the college of h... - Posted on January 19, 2012