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SAT undergoing sweeping revision

The perfect score will again be 1,600. What’s more, the essay will be optional, students will no longer be penalized for wrong answers and the vocabulary is shifting to do away with some high-sounding words such as “prevaricator” and “sagacious.”

School volunteer pays off delinquent lunch accounts for 60 kids

A volunteer at a Houston-area elementary school who noticed some students were getting a smaller lunch of cold cheese sandwiches is digging into his own pocket to cover $465 in delinquent meal accounts so all the kids can get the same full lunch tray.

Works by Monet, Renoir part of estate headed for auction

Important paintings by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir are among 400 items that will be sold this spring. The sale of Huguette Clark’s collection also has a local connection — her father was a senator who founded Las Vegas.

Declared dead once, man faces death penalty in killing of Las Vegas girl

A federal judge in Louisiana has scheduled a hearing Feb. 19 on motions to dismiss the indictment against a man who was declared dead in Mississippi in 1994, but surfaced in 2010 as a suspect in the deaths of his Las Vegas girlfriend and her daughter.

 
Student shot, killed outside SC State dorm

Officials at South Carolina State University say a student who was shot outside an on-campus dormitory has died.

Utah student protests tuition hike with $1 bills

A University of Utah student says he paid his tuition bill with 2,000 one-dollar bills as a silent protest against the rising cost of college.

Asian teens dominate international exam; U.S. students fail to reach top 20

Teens from Asian nations dominated a global exam given to 15-year-olds, while U.S. students showed little improvement and failed to reach the top 20 in math, science or reading, according to test results released Tuesday.

 
NY Troopers watch texting drivers in big SUVs

Even for a state trooper, it’s not easy to spot drivers who are texting. Their smartphones are down on their laps, not at their ears. And they’re probably not moving their lips.

Pa. student newspaper bars ‘Redskins,’ gets sent to principal

When a high school newspaper at a suburban Philadelphia football powerhouse decided the word “Redskins” had no place in its pages, the paper’s student editors found themselves called to the principal’s office.