If you want to learn about the world, books and maps and videos can only take you so far. And considering that globetrotting isn't a viable option for the average grade-school student, there's a more practical way to learn about faraway places: make friends with someone who lives there. ...more

October 26, 2008

If you want to learn about the world, books and maps and videos can only take you so far. Throughout this school year, students at Chasco Elementary School will improve their skills in classroom disciplines as they share their customs, rituals and way of life with children their own age in a distant, exotically unfamiliar land - Michigan. ...more

October 18, 2008

The sun is barely up as Bryan Elementary fifth-graders scurry from classroom to classroom, collecting the weekly bounty for their school's recycling program. ...more

October 16, 2008

A veterans group is offering a $100 U.S. Savings Bond to the two winners of this year's Buddy Poppy Contest. ...more

October 8, 2008

After prying off their sneakers and slipping on dance shoes, the students at Metropolitan Ministries Academy formed straight lines and stood at attention. ...more

October 8, 2008

Rising from the orchestra pit in a cloud of smoke, and surrounded by Stewart Middle Magnet School students in blue jumpsuits, Cpt. Winston Scott made quite an entrance to the Blake High School auditorium. ...more

October 8, 2008

No more excuses. That's the goal with a brand new, districtwide initiative that makes reading textbooks available on compact disc or online for all first- through fifth-graders at local public schools, making classic excuses for homework null. ...more

October 5, 2008

Sharon Cutler is teaching students at Chiles Elementary how to grow lettuce without getting dirty. ...more

October 1, 2008

It's kind of scary talking to big kids, but it's worth it in the name of recycling. ...more

September 20, 2008

Suncoast students take the reins in recycling initiative. ...more

September 17, 2008