As a University of Pittsburgh zoology major, Jenna Morasca refused to dissect an animal. Her grade suffered. Using her visibility as winner of the CBS series Survivor: the Amazon, she put out an ad and a poster: "We Both Survived". Things changed. Read more

An article in the Sunday Parade magazine earlier this summer claimed that one in five teenagers don't know that if they take out a loan they'll have to pay it back with interest. In O magazine, Suze Orman refers to a Nellie Mae survey showing lots of kids in major money trouble with their college loans. Did we maybe suspect as much? Read more

Design and Architecture Senior High in Florida is giving its students a fast track into highly competitive design colleges and even plum jobs. In California, average students are getting to increase their odds at a free, first-rate academic prep school where they can finish in three years. What's happening? Read more

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If you have a child in Kindergarten or Grades 1, 2, or 3 who is having difficulty with reading at grade-level, you can't do better than to spend some time with the Department of Education's Compact for Reading. Read more

Alaska has agreed to allow disabled students a wider range of accommodations than they might have elsewhere. Disabled high school students will be allowed the use of dictionaries and computerized spell-checkers on the state's mandatory graduation exam. This has been done in response to legal challenges of the mandatory exam. Read more