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Can you calculate the total movie ticket sales for a certain weekend if the ticket sales for another weekend and the percentage of difference between them are given?

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The Los Angeles school district will pay millions of dollars to settle dozens of legal actions in an abuse case in which a former teacher is charged with lewd acts on children over five years.

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In a contest overseen by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Mayor Angel Taveras won his city $5 million to help parents improve the vocabulary of their children.

Sara Volz, of Colorado Springs, cultivated populations of algae under her loft bed for her winning project in the Intel Science Talent Search.

Legislation in California would require universities to honor faculty-approved online courses taken by those unable to register for classes on campus.

Senator John D. Rockefeller IV proposed an overhaul and update of the E-Rate fund, which uses money collected on consumers’ phone bills to subsidize Internet connections for schools.

Many institutions, including Ivy League universities and unheralded community colleges, offer older students free or discounted tuition.

Jerry Reid, who enrolled in college at 65 and joined a fraternity, tells of his experiences as an older student on campus.

“In my opinion,” writes Chandler Buckingham, a student at Rogers High School in Rogers, Ark., “the individual interview was scarier than the group interview.”

In this lesson we’ll help students raise questions and seek answers on the role of the church and the pope around the globe.

Officials in cities like Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington are being met with anger and criticism as they close schools citing budgets.

Diana Natalicio has been president of the University of El Paso since 1988, and she is still battling for the needs of underserved, often low-income and minority, student populations.

The vote at a tense and often raucous meeting meant current plans to close, co-locate or phase out struggling public schools would move forward.

How much stuff have you accumulated over the years? Are there things you own that you don’t need?

What is the papal conclave? Where does voting take place?

Can you choose the word pair that correctly completes the sentence?

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