Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Retiring in Maine: Healthy Mind

Retiring in Maine: Healthy Mind

SMART THINKING Keeping your mind active is a key to healthy living in Maine. By Joshua F. Moore ALWAYS LEARNING Residents of an independent and assisted living community in Scarborough are making learning a lifelong affair.


The long road back

The English High School, a historic icon and once one of Boston's premier learning institutions, has become one of the city's worst schools. This year, it must improve or face closure. This story is the first of several about the students, teachers, and headmaster at English as they try to reverse the school's troubled course. Read the rest ...

Education Department official acknowledges error in counseling teen

Education Department official acknowledges error in counseling teen
Kevin Jennings, under fire from conservatives, says he erred as a teacher 21 years ago when he failed to notify authorities that a student told him he had sexual relations with an adult.

A President Obama appointee in the Education Department acknowledged Wed- nesday that as a teacher 21 years ago he mishandled an incident in which he failed to notify authorities that a 15-year-old student had told him he had sexual relations with an adult.



Slain Yale student memorialized by university

Slain Yale student memorialized by university
The Yale University graduate student who was found murdered a month ago on what was to be her wedding day was remember Monday as a "model student" at a memorial service for the university community.