When Carla Gott moved to Maryland from Bolivia 11 years ago, she did not know how to speak English. Her uncle bought her Harry Potter and Dr. Seuss books, and she tried to learn words before she started at Robert Frost Middle School in Rockville, she said. […]
ADELANTO Like most moms would, Janice Frye-Williams beamed with pride when her second-grader won the principal's award last year for scoring the highest in his school on the state math test. She made a big deal out of the awards ceremony, inviting his grandma to drive in from Los Angeles and... […]
Classrooms have been burnt, reduced to piles of broken glass and shards of cement, but children and teachers remain, squeezing into the part of the building still standing for lessons. […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng soaked up the sun in New York City on Sunday as his children played in a garden, a break in a day of meetings to arrange his studies at New York University. "(Chen) said he hadn't sat in the sun for many, many years," said Jerome Cohen, a China law expert and professor at New York Uni […]