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Students benefit from Simmons’ teaching and his work on a celebrated painkiller, and the latter one day may pay off for school

On the first day of school last year, only four children in Orchard Elementary teacher Liz Oven’s kindergarten class knew how to write their names. That’s about average, she said.

The Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI,) is a school offering a pioneering MBA in Sustainable Business.

As it tries to usher in a new era in computing, Google is promoting its software applications in kindergarten through high school classrooms, where kids who have grown up with the Web are more likely to experiment with different technology.

A South Eugene High School school senior won a $100,000 scholarship at one of the nation’s premier high school science competitions on Monday for his research in a new area of mathematics called string topology.

Teaching our children is surely one of humanity’s earliest and most fundamental pursuits, and today it’s fair to say that education, not Esperanto, is the universal language.

California students ranks among the lowest in the 50 states based on standardized tests.

An opinion poll conducted by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22 percent of Americans can identify all five members of the cartoon family the Simpsons but only one in 1,000 can identify all five freedoms the First Amendment contains.

The new states selected to join the SSI network are Missouri, New Hampshire, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

For every 100 ninth graders, only 18 will enter college and finish within six years.