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Two health centers in the Worcester public schools, at Worcester East Middle School and Norrback Avenue Elementary School, were closed for the entire school year. Four others — at Doherty Memorial High School, North High School, Burncoat Middle/High School and Worcester Technical High School — were closed for portions of the past school year.
“We really [...]

School is out, but that doesn’t mean learning should take a break for the summer – especially when studies show learning that takes place outside school has great influence on future academic achievement. The National Center for Family Literacy has created fun lessons to boost learning this summer.
The National Center for Family Literacy has created [...]

On the day you send your children away to university with love and high hopes and trepidation, you know more about them than you’ll ever know again. From then on, you will know only what they choose to tell you.
In the case of Nadia Kajouji, the 18-year-old Carleton University student who went missing last month [...]

THE grammar school at St. Lawrence O%26#8217;Toole Roman Catholic parish here opened in 1926, in a two-story building at the crest of a gentle slope near the train station. For decades, nuns lived in the rooms upstairs and taught their students in classrooms on the first floor.In 1968, when Brian Ledley entered first grade, [...]

ALICE TERRELL opens the door to Miss Hargrove%26#8217;s first grade at Blessed Sacrament School, where nine children sit attentively at desks arranged like pieces on a checkerboard. The room is huge and they are tiny, but the 92-year-old school was built when Catholic education was flourishing and a typical classroom held 40 [...]

In many ways, the image of Ruth Lawrence riding around Oxford on a tandem with her father was symbolic of their relationship. Up front sat Harry, the domineering father, while Ruth, just 12 years old and already an Oxford University student, perched behind, pedalling to his rhythm, her academic gown flapping beyond her control in [...]

The government could face strike action in every school earmarked to become an academy as union opposition to the privately sponsored schools increases.The NASUWT teaching union yesterday pledged to ballot on strikes in every school where staff oppose imminent plans to become academies - up to 110 in total.The head of a second union, the [...]

A campaign drawing in parents, businesses, teachers and pupils to help schools raise their game in use of technology has been launched by the educational technology agency, Becta. Next Generation Learning is the result of a Becta survey back in 2006 that found only 20% of schools were making best use of technology - even [...]

When Dawn Miller’s teenaged twin daughters asked for help in deciding what to do after high school, she was at a loss. They said, %26#39;You know, there’s so much out there. Where do we start? How do we kind of figure this all out?’ And I didn’t have an answer for them, she said. There’s [...]

Greater Napanee Mayor Gord Schermerhorn will represent his council and constituents at today’s repatriation of Sgt. Jason Boyes.
Boyes, who attended school in Napanee, was killed by a land mine Sunday in Afghanistan. His repatriation is scheduled for 2 p.m. today at CFB Trenton.
“I’m going to be there whether I can get on the airbase or [...]