Amid free-falling stocks, shrinking retirement and college savings plans and skyrocketing foreclosures, it's not just adults who have been seized with uncertainty recently. A survey of 500 U.S. teens finds almost 70 percent fear an "immediate negative impact" on the security of their families. (By Brigid Schulte -- The Washington Post)
Within hours of learning chief John E. Deasy would leave in February, the board chose William R. Hite Jr., Deasy's deputy, as interim superintendent of Maryland's second-largest school system.
Aspiring doctors and technicians can get lessons in anatomy, disease or radiology before college, as high schools offer classes for students seeking a head start on training.