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Spelling Bee champs, tech wizards, guerrilla filmmakers and Broadway stars: welcome to another edition of our monthly round-up of the latest articles and multimedia features published on NYTimes.com about young people.    

“Things to See” by Brian, 16, from Hauppauge, N.Y., is the ninth of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

Virginia lawmakers approved school reforms earlier this year that included a new A-F system of grading individual schools. Gov. Bob McDonnell championed the change, saying it was an easy way for parents to understand how well their children's schools were actually doing. Critics think otherwise.

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Who has been compiling a huge database of calling logs of Americans’ domestic communications for at least six years?    

What do you think will be the “song of summer”? What are you listening to these days? Why?    

HKG - Nationwide, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), opened in October 1991, comprises four Schools: Science, Engineering, Busine

Where should the semicolon in this paragraph go?    

A recent post by Joanne Yatvin argued against ability groupings of students, saying:

Teaching to the presumed level of a whole class never works as well as hoped because students still have significant differences in work habits, paces of learning, and outside of school experiences. But there is another, more serious problem: the effects on students in the low level classes. Those kids know who they are, why they are there, and resent it. Other kids know, too. In the end, low-level classes can be a self-fulfilling prophecy: "Everybody thinks I'm dumb. I'll show them just how dumb I can be!"

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This word has appeared in 141 New York Times articles in the past year.    

As we’ve experimented with the C.C.S.S. over the last two years, we’ve been aware of how politically charged their implementation has become. Here’s what we’ve done and why. Please tell us your thoughts and describe your experiences with the standards so far.    

District officials are anticipating a school bus driver sickout Friday and Monday and are warning employees that they can be fired for participating.

More than 1,500 bus drivers and attendants transport thousands of D.C. students with disabilities to and from school each day.

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The legislation, which eliminates 70 programs, is intended to reduce “the federal footprint,” said its sponsor, Representative John Kline.    

Prince George’s and six other counties in Maryland have been unable to agree with the state department of education on the best way to use student test scores to measure teacher performance in time to meet Friday’s deadline for submitting revised evaluation plans.

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US - WA - Walla Walla, Qualifications The successful candidate will possess a Master’s degree in Communications/Rhetoric; a Ph.D is strongly preferred, with demonstrated commitment to private residential liberal arts edu

US - CA - Los Angeles, LECTURER POSITION IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES UCLA Afro-American Studies expects to hire Lecturers for the 2013-2014 Academic Year. Seeking Ph.D. applicants to instruct the following course

The president said he would ask for changes to the E-rate program so that 99 percent of schools could upgrade to high-speed broadband and wireless service.    

President Obama visited Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina on Thursday to promote a new five-year initiative aimed at ensuring that 99 percent of public schools in the country have access to the Internet. Here is a White House transcript of his appearance:

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