... This is part one of a two-part series Since the Texas Lottery opened for business in 1992, it has generally been portrayed as a success, raising billions of dollars for public education. Yet the state's largest legal gambling enterprise has also changed from two decades ago, when it was sold as a harmless entertainment that would raise huge sums of money and ease the tax burden on Texans to suppo

... First in a series of occasional articles examining challenges facing the University of Massachusetts. In went the pink bath towels, the extra-long sheet sets, and the plastic shower caddy. Maggie Davis, a Wayland High School graduate, and her mother stuffed the cardboard boxes to the brim on a steaming Saturday morning in August — six cartons bound for the University of Michigan, 800 miles

... The U.S. economy will eventually rebound from the Great Recession. Millions of American workers will not. What some economists now project — and policymakers are loath to admit — is that the U.S. unemployment rate, which stood at 9.6% in August, could remain elevated for years to come. The nation's job deficit is so deep that even a powerful recovery would leave large numbers

... Jim Kavanagh CNN (CNN) - Andre Agassi felt his life was not his own until he was nearly 30, and now he wants to help young people take charge of their own lives, the retired tennis star told CNN's Anderson Cooper. In "Open: An Autobiography," Agassi describes the loneliness and pressure of growing up under his father's relentless expectations of greatness. "It was

... The governing body for Ohio high-school athletics is so concerned about the physical, emotional and financial toll in youth sports that it offered last week to provide uniform regulation to protect hundreds of thousands of children involved in nonschool programs. Ohio High School Athletic Association officials sketched out uniform standards for youth sports in reaction to a fi

... 2010 Fall Arts Preview » Things turn colorful in autumn. And not just through those red and gold shades of fall leaves. The art scene unfolds its full spectrum of multihued offerings; serious works, ambitious premieres, major celebrations of company milestones; it's the best season of the year. This Sunday and next, The Denver Post's cultural critics will offer their picks of the most promis

... The vast majority of Clackamas County's high schools improved student passing rates in at least one subject in yearly standardized tests from by the Oregon Department of Education. Results of the tests, taken last year, were released this week. The state benchmark exams, administered in 10th grade and every elementary and middle scho

... Freshman Daniel Gentry stood still as he was hooked up to a cardiac monitor in his biomedical-sciences class at Gilbert's Campo Verde High School. Class in session His classmates gathered around and waited for the results of the EKG, or electrocardiogram, asking questions about the machine that monitors the heart's electrical activities. "It was very cool," said Gentry, 14. "All the stickers

... The candidate was outraged - just outraged - at the country's sorry fiscal state. "We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet," he fumed to a roomful of voters. "In my view, we have nothing to show for it." And that was a Democrat, Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who voted "yes" on the stimulus, the health-care overhaul, increased education funding and other costly b

... Perhaps the most fundamental and finite resource schools have is time. As pressure builds to increase student achievement, talk across the country often turns to lengthening the school day or school year -- both expensive options. But a critical question is: What are schools doing to make the best use of the time they have now? Or, as Mike Schmoker -- an Arizona-based education consultant, aut