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Witnesses Fail to Stop Richmond High School Gang Rape

A 15-year-old female student Richmond High School was brutally gang rape while waiting for a ride home from her father after the school's homecoming dance. Even more disturbing, dozens witnesses who saw the sexual assault did nothing as the young Richmond High School student was raped, beaten and robbed for nearly two and a half hours. So far, police have arrested two suspects.

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Student Kills Intruder

Intruder killed by John Hopkins student with Samurai sword.

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Watch the Obama School Speech Video

U.S. President Barack Obama gave his rah, rah type speech to students today. While there has been controversy over his speech, with conservatives forgetting how their hero Ronald Reagan met with students during his term, and as the school speech video shows, Obama did nothing to "indoctrinate" students, but rather encouraged them to work hard.

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Obama's School Speech Text: No Socialism, "Study Hard"

All the wild, crazy panic of the right over a speech by the President of the United States, which has been done by the right wing's hero, Ronald Reagan, in the past, mind you. All for what? A rah, rah speech that exhorts children to study hard? That's what it looks like, as Obama's school speech text was released by the White House, as promised.

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Two Virginia Tech Students Found Dead Near Campus

It appears tragedy has, once again, struck at Virginia Tech University as two students were found shot dead near campus on Thursday. The Two Virginia Tech students were found dead at a popular student campground about 15 miles from the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg.

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Where to get car loans for people with poor credit

In today economics having poor credit or no credit seem very exhausted when you begin with very first day of college in life and do not have any means of transportation and always dreaming where in the world will to fill a credit application to get approved for car loans. It could be very threatening for the first time car buyer and do not have any know-how with car finance. Nowadays despite having zero credit, you can still avail a car loan, there are many people’s having bad credit and looking same for loan. Get the full story & video...

Students to produce second play festival in the Woodlands

For the second year, Aside Productions is proud to present its original, new play festival, AN EVENING OF ORIGINAL PLAYS. Aside Productions consists of high school and college students from the Spring area who are interested in theatre, playwriting, and performance. Get the full story...

Student Success Can Be Improved Through Relationships

When students are underachieving, school policymakers often examine class size, curriculum and funding, but University of Missouri researchers suggest establishing relationships may be a powerful and less expensive way to improve students' success. In a review of the research they show that students with positive attachments to their teachers and schools have higher grades and higher standardized test scores.

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Credit Card Debt Continues to Rise for College Students

One of the issues that brought us to the financial crisis we are now experiencing is debt, including (but not exclusive to) credit cards. A recent study shows that college students not only continue to rack up debt, the amount is increasing.

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Peer discussion improves student performance with clickers

Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in hopes of earning a better grade.

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College students find comfort in their pets during hard times

A new study suggests that college students may handle stressful situations better if they have a pet.

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Why students studying soil science declined across the US

Why are the number of students studying soil science as a major declining across the United States?

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