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Photo Credit: Constitutionality and Reliability of Tamilnadu Councilby Robert GebelhoffDon’t use drugs, stay in school — kids hear this kind of advice all the time. What they don’t hear is that not having a good education could be just as dangerous to their health as smoking. Read the rest of the story at The Washington Post.

Photo Credit: Jeremy MikkolaThe Associated PressBOSTON – It took a 15-year-old high school student from Virginia to catch a math error at Boston’s venerable Museum of Science.Read the rest of the story at CBS News.

Photo Credit: Chris Moncusby Kate N. GrossmanChicago has seen a double-digit increase in the percentage of kids graduating from high school. Skeptics say educators and kids are manipulating the numbers—but does that even matter?Read the rest of the story at The Atlantic.

by Lauren CameraAfter weeks of letting it languish in the legislative queue, the U.S. Senate this week is slated to begin debating a proposed bipartisan overhaul of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—the first such Senate debate since 2001, when Congress last updated the law in its current iteration, the No Child Left Behind Act.Read the rest of the story at Education Week.

Photo Credit: Claude Truong-Ngocby The Associated PressNobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai wants world leaders to spend more money, on top of their earlier promises, to secure 12 years of free primary and secondary education for all children across the world.Read the rest of the story at ABC News.

Photo Credit: VOAby Alan BlinderAnonymous donors have given more than $3 million to establish a scholarship fund for people affiliated with the church in Charleston, S.C., where nine people were killed last month, city officials said on Thursday.Read the rest of the story at The NY Times.

Photo Credit: The World Councilby Fredreka SchoutenA nonprofit education group founded by Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush disclosed a full list of its donors Wednesday, a day after Bush released more than three decades of tax returns.Read the rest of the story at USA Today.

Photo Credit: Milei.vencelWASHINGTON, June 30, 2015—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved $315 million in two credits for Vietnam to support the government’s agriculture restructuring plan and help with the revision of a new education curriculum.Read the rest of the story at the World Bank website.

Photo Credit: National Cancer InstituteBy T. Keung Hui and Bruce SiceloffRALEIGH, N.C. – At least one-third of North Carolina’s school systems are suspending their driver’s education programs this summer until they learn whether they’ll receive any state money to help pay for the classes.Read the rest of the story at The News & Observer.