Authorities have also solved the city’s mysterious outbreak of “Twist and Shout” parade float singing
Education
First-Grader Born Without Hands Earns National Penmanship Award
Annie Clark, a 7-year-old from Pennsylvania, has won a national penmanship award, a trophy and a $1,000 prize. She achieved all of this despite one key setback: she was born with no hands.
The Case of the ‘Talking Pineapple,’ the Reading-Comprehension Test Stumper
For those far removed from it, let’s briefly relive standardized testing day. Remember how, for hours on end, you’d flip through a drab gray packet of reading comprehension questions, stare at several paragraphs of nonsense and …
Catastrophic Brain Injuries at All-Time High in High School Football
Plus, news on college admissions, recess and student loan debt.
How Colleges Really Make Admissions Decisions
Plus, news on pepper-spraying police, questioning science and accidental admissions
UCLA Mistakenly ‘Admits’ 894 Students on Waiting List
In an email sent last weekend, the University of California at Los Angeles informed 894 students that they had gained places at the highly competitive college. The only problem was, they hadn’t. UCLA mistakenly sent the email …
After Dozens of Bomb Threats, Pitt Students Go Online for Answers
At 3:00 on Monday morning, students at the University of Pittsburgh evacuated to the streets after bomb threats were made against the school—the 57th time students have evacuated campus buildings since mid-February. Later in …
Who Didn’t Get Into College This Year?
Plus, news about America’s most educated cities and a college charging extra for in-demand classes.
‘The Scary Guy’: Meet the Bully Who’s Anti-Bullying
Schools worldwide are paying as much as $6,500 a day to hire a tattooed, pierced and bearded ruffian with no credentials to impart anti-bullying wisdom to pupils, reports CNN.
The Scary Guy, once an average fellow who went by …
SATs, ACTs Beef Up Security After Cheating Scandals
Plus, more of the week’s top education news.
New Jersey Middle School Bans Hugging
Of all the things that schools could ban kids from doing, hugging is now apparently unacceptable behavior. At least in one New Jersey middle school.
Tyler Blackmore, the principal of Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School, instituted …
Class Notes: Law School, Student Loans and More Education News
Each week, we fill you in on the goings on in the education world, everything from pre-K to higher ed.