Milford Mill kids get a jump start on AP calc
Some kids need extra help when they embark on a journey into Advanced Placement calculus. Boot camps can prepare them for college.
Academics
Practice makes perfect?
A new meta-analysis of 88 separate studies shows that with music, practice makes a difference. With math, not so much.
Research says joining a gym will boost your college GPA
With caution, we run a press release from Michigan State, showing that college students who join gyms get higher GPAs and finish more often.
A refugee-like crisis comes to Maryland
Unaccompanied children are making a dangerous trip to the US, and they deserve to be treated humanely and processed quickly in our courts.
Kids like new healthier meals
When it comes to healthy eating at lunch, marketing is much more important than finances, which are indeed suffering but could recover with some creativity.
Aldrin asks, Can mankind establish residence on Mars?
On the 45th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon, we pause to listen to the words of Buzz Aldrin as he reflects on our future.
Passenger jet shot down over eastern Ukraine
298 people died today as a Malaysian Airlines 777 was shot down over Ukranian airspace in a region controlled by pro-Russia separatists.
Memory helps academic progress in early childhood
Working memory plays an important role in early academic success, new research from Luxembourg and Brazil has shown.
Dinosaur said to be thousands of years old
A fossilized dinosaur skeleton has been donated to the Creation Museum so they can confirm that it is less than 5,000 years old.
Lowery appointed to youth financial literacy council
The Md. State Superintendent of Schools will be nominated to serve on the president's financial literacy advisory council.