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When San Benito, Texas, school leaders learned of an influx of children to a migrant shelter in their small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, they felt obliged to help. The superintendent reached out and agreed to send 19 bilingual teachers, mobile classrooms and hundreds of computers to make the learning environment resemble one of his schools. While a government contractor...

Hate Mondays? Maybe you should consider moving to Colorado. A school district in the Centennial State has cancelled school on Mondays in favor of a four-day school week. But Garfield-like attitudes is not why school district 27J, located outside Denver, made the decision. The district, which serves 18,000 students in Brighton, Commerce City, Henderson, Thornton and Aurora, believes that the...

Fourth-graders in Miami-Dade County Public Schools are on a roll. They pretty much aced a test known as “the nation’s report card.”

We head to the Upper West Side of Manhattan to the Ariel East penthouse with almost 4000 square feet of entertaining space, and 360-degree views of the Hudson River, Central Park, and the reservoir. For more information on 2628 Broadway, please contact Amelia S. Gerwitz at 917-715-6530. View the listing. This episode of Open House NYC was hosted from 44…

Police say Justin Pharez Smith admitted to shooting two women and a man in a home in East Oak Cliff early Saturday morning.

Lena Dunham talks about rocking the Met Gala with “Girls” co-star Jemima Kirke and borrowing Jared Leto’s fake head for a photo opportunity.

Fourth and eighth grade students in MIami-Dade County Public Schools ranked high nationally in reading and writing for the National Assessment of Education Progress exams. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer reports.

As Apple’s chosen reviewers sounded off first on the iPhone 4 Tuesday night, they all agreed that it was a major improvement over its predecessor, the iPhone 3GS, and a champion when compared to challengers from other phone makers. Still, many pointed out that call reception was no better.

Some 273 unreleased songs by the Jackson Five, including a duet with Tina Turner, have been discovered among items in a warehouse full of memorabilia bought by a Toronto man.

President Obama and his wife Michelle are back on Martha’s Vineyard for a final day of vacation before the First Family heads back to D.C. Sunday.

Bret Michaels is continuing to recover from a massive brain hemorrhage and some of his “Celebrity Apprentice” co-stars told Access Hollywood they’re pulling for his speedy recovery.

“The Star-Spangled Banner” isn’t an unusual feature of high school pregame festivities, but Roseanne Barr’s screeching 1990s rendition surprised spectators at one Delaware volleyball game. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the Seaford School District apologized Wednesday for the shock served at Seaford High School’s Tuesday game against Milford High.