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[5 Nov 2014 | No Comment | ]
Distance Learning Crosses State Lines

Under the agreement, Virginia’s colleges and universities can offer distance-learning programs outside Virginia without seeking state-by-state approval. Virginia students taking distance-learning programs from other member states’ institutions will receive…

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[30 Oct 2014 | No Comment | ]
Painting Your Face With Novelty Makeup: Special Effects Without Aftereffects

Face paints can be fun on Halloween and other special occasions. Here are tips to help keep your fun from leaving you with a rash, swollen eyelids, or other reaction.

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[23 Oct 2014 | No Comment | ]
The Ghost, Goblins & Ghouls Spooktacular 5k Taking Place in Loudoun

With Halloween in the air, the third running of the Ghost, Goblins & Ghouls Spooktacular 5k and Scarecrow Sprint Fun Run will take place at One Loudoun in Ashburn on Saturday, Oct. 25, with a 4 p.m. start time. The event will center on the spooktacular theme of Halloween and incorporate a costume contest, a haunted 3.1 mile course pre-HYPE party starting at 2, fun for the kids and more.

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[21 Oct 2014 | No Comment | ]

The Virginia Department of Education has developed a new guide for military families with children in special education. The 16-page guide provides information and answers to questions that military families with school-aged children might have about special education programs in Virginia public schools.

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[21 Oct 2014 | No Comment | ]
Afternoon Trick-or-Treating Taking Place at Mount Vernon

For those of you with children, or who just want to act like children, George Washington’s Mount Vernon is hosting trick-or-treaters for the first time.

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[21 Oct 2014 | No Comment | ]
Fall Harvest Celebration at Mt. Vernon

Mount Vernon welcomes the autumn season with Fall Harvest Family Days, Oct. 25 and 26 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The entire family will enjoy autumn activities including horse-drawn wagon rides, wheat treading in the 16-sided barn, a straw bale maze, early-American games and demonstrations.

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[9 Oct 2014 | No Comment | ]
Tickets Still Available for Bastille’s Saturday Show

U.K. band Bastille will kick-off its fall tour on Saturday, Oct. 11 in the D.C. area.

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[25 Sep 2014 | No Comment | ]
School Newspaper Adviser, Editor Suspended for Defying Orders Over the Name Redskins

Amid a months-long battle with administrators for editorial control — sparked by the student staff’s attempt to ban the word “Redskins” from the newspaper’s pages — the faculty adviser was suspended for two days and the editor for one month.

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[19 Sep 2014 | No Comment | ]
Occupy Wall Street Abolishes $3.8 million in Other People’s Student Loan Debt

It said it has been buying the debts for pennies on the dollar from debt collectors, and then simply forgiving that money rather than trying to collect it.

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[17 Sep 2014 | No Comment | ]
Students React To The Closure Of A Giant For-Profit College

Everest’s parent company, Corinthian, is selling this Pompano Beach campus and 84 other schools across the U.S. It looks like business as usual here at the eight-story office building, where a sign in the window still reads “Everest University, Changing Students’ Lives.”