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Despite standing six foot two, Stacie Lynn Hatt struggled to hold her head high as a student walking the halls of her Halifax-area school.

The ongoing MPs' expenses saga has provided some exquisitely clear lessons for schools and with its shocking revelations has served to make the already challenging job of being a head teacher just that little bit harder.

Sending your child away to study? Here is some advice for parents.

A spring 2009 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law was deemed the best oral advocate in preliminary rounds at an international moot court competition last month.

A West Midlands primary school which closed early for half-term after pupils contracted swine flu, reopens after lengthy cleaning.

Amid the twisted metal and broken glass of the simulated car accident at Shaler Area High School is a lesson.

HOLCOMB, Kans.--Kyle Nelson points upward to show off the six-story-high main boiler of Holcomb Station. The 370-megawatt coal-fired power plant sits on the rolling prairie of southwestern Kansas just a few miles from the small town of Holcomb, population 2,100, roughly 40 miles (65 kilometers) east of the Colorado border. Enormous metal pipes crisscross far overhead in a facility where the temperature is a little too hot to ignore, and the machinery's din is deafening.Nelson, a senior vice president and chief operating officer at Sunflower Electric Power Corp. unhooks a heavy latch and swings opens a large metal hatch to reveal the 26-year-old plant's fiery heart: a furnace where coal-fueled flames burning nonstop at about 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius) heat a 55,000-gallon (208,200-liter) boiler to produce 2,400 pounds per square inch (170 kilograms per square centimeter) of high-pressure steam. The hulking gray metal turbine that converts the steam into electricit

[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]On May 19th, President Obama announced a new federal gas mileage standard. He wants the country’s entire car and light truck fleet to average 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016. Some reaction was swift and to the point. Here’s forlorn Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn: “What if you want to drive a gas hog? You don’t have the right any longer in this country to spend your money to drive a gas hog?” [More]

Hannah Berner's high school does not have a girls' tennis team. So she plays with the boys - and beats most of them.

The Materials Center at Beginnings Nursery School is where things that outlive their original use come to be repurposed for toddler art projects and life lessons about second acts.