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More teens flocking to Twitter as enthusiasm for Facebook wanes

2013-05-21 14:35:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- Twitter is getting the youth vote. Nearly a quarter of teens now use Twitter to catch up with friends and keep track of celebrities, a big jump in usage as teens flock to different social media sites and spend less time on Facebook to...

DSM-5 is here: Are psychiatrists ready to stop arguing about it?

2013-05-20 05:30:00

Finally. After many contentious years, the American Psychiatric Assn. has unleashed DSM-5, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. If you know one thing about the DSM, it’s probably that this book is...

Beijing International Screenwriting Competition announces winners

2013-05-20 06:36:00

An American woman arrives in China to retrace the steps of her deceased daughter from a video diary the daughter kept of her trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A young flautist travels to Beijing to audition for a conservatory. A seamstress for a...

Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation

2013-05-11 18:10:00

Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...

Calming the West's water wars

2013-05-03 00:00:00

Last week, Texas and Oklahoma squared off in a Supreme Court battle over water rights that has the drought-ridden West on edge. At issue is a state's control over its own water: Texas seeks to buy or otherwise tap water from Oklahoma under the terms of an...

Using technology to fight cheating in online education

2013-05-01 17:06:00

While Jennifer Clay was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a proctor a few hundred miles away was watching her every move. Using a webcam mounted in Clay's Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her...

Suit seeks to change ABC Unified to trustee system

2013-04-22 00:00:00

Olga Rios is a middle-school teacher with a Harvard University graduate degree and a passion to politically represent the low-income Latino children she says mirror herself growing up in hard-scrabble Hawaiian Gardens. But that quest is virtually...

In immigrant-rich Cambridge, arrest baffles locals

2013-04-21 00:28:00

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The brothers' American experience was rooted here, a city of Ivy Leaguers and immigrants across the Charles River from Boston. In almost every way, it was unremarkable. They lived in a weathered neighborhood of Brazilians and...

At least 144 Boston Marathon bombing victims treated in hospitals

2013-04-15 22:09:00

BOSTON — More than 144 people hurt in the Boston Marathon bombing were sent to hospitals, officials said, and three were killed. Seventeen of the injured were in critical condition Monday night.� The two bombs hundreds of yards apart created a...

Cal State to offer online engineering course at 11 more campuses

2013-04-10 22:19:00

An online engineering course at San Jose State that has shown promise in improving student performance will be expanded to 11 other California State University campuses next fall, officials announced Wednesday. The San Jose campus, which has been a...

San Jose State online initiative to expand in Cal State system

2013-04-10 14:45:00

An online engineering course at San Jose State University that has shown promise in improving student performance will be expanded to 11 other California State University campuses next fall, officials announced Wednesday. The San Jose campus, which...

Stanford and edX to improve online learning platform

2013-04-02 21:00:00

Stanford University and edX, the online education group that is providing free classes worldwide, are announcing a new collaboration to expand and improve edX’s underlying platform and allow open access to it. The move, to be formally announced...

Danny Zhuang readily admits he didn't get straight As in junior high school. "It was a developing time," explains Zhuang, of Aurora, who used the Bs in junior high to push himself toward excellence at Metea Valley High School. The strategy worked: Zhuang is set to graduate with a 4.

2013-05-08 00:00:00

Carrie Sha has come so far since struggling to learn English as a 6-year-old Chinese immigrant. "It was just such a different world for me," said Sha, now an Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy senior with a 4.0 grade-point average, a slew of academic achievements and a near-perfect SAT score.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

's Kennedy School of Government Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security and he speaks Spanish, French and Russian.

2013-03-15 14:22:12