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  • Here are some depressing statistics about DCPS middle schoolers

    9/27/11 4:14 PM

    D.C. Public Schools chancellor Kaya Henderson and other officials met with the D.C. Council this afternoon and presented some disturbing facts. Here's a few of them.

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  • Banana man controversy in photos

    9/23/11 1:34 PM

    See pics of the now infamous Banana Man, also known as Bryan Thompson, a sophomore at Colonial Forge High School.

  • The Peace Corps should donate these items to the Smithsonian, too

    9/21/11 2:50 PM

    The Peace Corps is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, and the program is donating items from returned volunteers to the National Museum of American History. With the exception of a congratulatory letter from President John F. Kennedy, who created the Peace Corps, the contents of the collection — brochures, posters, correspondence — sound rather dull. Here are a few objects I'd rather see included.

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  • D.C. public school teachers are taking the money and staying

    9/19/11 12:56 PM

    When it comes to choosing between job security and making more money, an increasing number of D.C. Public Schools teachers are opting for the latter. More top-rated teachers took bonuses and pay raises, surrendering certain collective bargaining rights, than did last year.

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  • Some other things we learned from U.S. News' college rankings

    9/14/11 7:50 PM

    Yesterday, like every other media outlet in the country, we covered the release of U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2012. However, in focusing on the main event — the rankings for national universities and liberal arts colleges — we overlooked the lesser-known schools in the Washington area that landed on one or more niche lists:

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  • Buy groceries, give money to the children

    9/13/11 1:05 PM

    School’s back in session, and that means the children need cash for all the books/field trips/music/arts programs that school districts around the country have been inclined to cut. Several local grocery chains make it easy for you to contribute to the school(s) of your choice by donating a percentage of your purchase payment. Yes you have to use a loyalty card, and yes they are probably tracking your purchases for some nefarious purchase, but it's a small price to pay to help the children.

     

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  • As a college, Georgetown is slightly worse than the Univ. of Ghent

    9/12/11 4:12 PM

    Despite that recent, minor international incident, Georgetown University has a lot going for it: Computer geeks, future politicians, foreign students love it there, and the food's pretty good, too (according to Newsweek, anyway). Which is why we're a little baffled about the school's ranking on a new list of the world's top 300 colleges.

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  • UMD researchers have invented a device that reads your mind

    9/7/11 9:02 AM

    The University of Maryland is researching new technology that turns thoughts into motion: a non-invasive, sensor-lined cap known as the "brain cap," which translates brain waves into motion. Whoa.

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  • The fragments and artifacts of 9/11, all within arm's reach

    9/2/11 7:13 AM

    An exhibition at the Smithsonian American History museum shows artifacts from New York, Washington and Pennsylvania and invites visitors to share their own stories. More than 50 artifacts sit on open tables, all within arm’s reach without cases or walls.

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