True Or False? Free And Reduced-Price Lunch = Poor
Poverty is the backdrop to so many discussions about learning. But do we have a good way to measure it in schools?
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U.S. Nuclear Scientist Caught In FBI Sting Is Jailed For Espionage
Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni is sentenced to five years after telling FBI agents posing as Venezuelan officials that he could design and supervise the building of 40 nuclear bombs.
Obama Wants Funding For Research On More Precise Health Care
Doctors and scientists could could learn a lot more about diseases if the were able to to tap into a wide spectrum of information about people who get sick and those who stay healthy.
Experiments With Coordinating Medical Care Deliver Mixed Results
The medical home is intended to make health care better and safer by having primary care providers manage a patient's care. So far it's not clear if they can also save money.
Balloonists Crossing Pacific Set Distance Record
American Troy Bradley and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev, flying east over the Pacific Ocean, surpassed the previous record of just over 5,200 miles set in 1981 for gas-filled balloons.
Why Dump Treated Wastewater When You Could Make Beer With It?
An Oregon company has developed a high-tech process for turning sewage into pure drinking water. Now it's asking the state for permission to give its recycled water to a group of home brewers.
Could This Virus Be Good For You?
Scientists studying HIV and Ebola have noticed another virus hitching along for the ride in some blood samples. Now they're trying to figure out whether the lurker helps the body fend off disease.
Behind The Taxidermy Renaissance, Roadkill And A Little Imagination
Taxidermy is becoming more popular amongst a certain crowd — not only for preservation or adornment, but also to create fantasy animals.Laura Securon Palet wrote about it for the online magazine Ozy.
In Work Of Ferguson Photographer, Snapshots Of Chaos
Scott Olson, a photojournalist with Getty Images, has captured some of the striking images of the protests in Ferguson, Mo., following the police shooting of Michael Brown.
Sen. McCaskill On Ferguson: 'We're Going To Get All The Facts'
Tess Vigeland speaks with Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill about the week of violence and tension in Ferguson, discussing the way forward for the community.