Prep schools revive agriculture programs
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At St. Andrew's School, where chestnut trees tower over the Tudor-style buildings and crisply manicured grounds filmed for "Dead Poets Society," it's a safe bet few of the future Ivy Leaguers plan to become farmers. Yet on the edge of exclusive boarding school's campus, just beyond the tennis courts and soccer fields, sprout rows of green peas, sunflowers, zucchini and squash in a 2-acre organic garden tended by students.
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Children are being presented with healthier choices for school dinners or in vending machines.
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Education officials prepared to open eight public schools on Monday, giving more than 4,000 students an early start on the school year and advancing a reform movement that blossomed after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city almost a year ago.
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Costs for elite prep schools are staggering, but parents say they're worth it.
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By MIRA BAR-HILLEL  A CITY farm is to reopen following a successful fundraising campaign.   College Farm in Finchley was forced to close by the food and mouth disease outbreak in 2001.
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As children head back to school savvy  teachers are looking for the best ways to help students  maximize their learning potential.
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Hawaii's famed Punahou School is known for its curriculum and star alums, including Barack Obama. Now it's getting high marks for helping the environment, too.
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NEW YORK  - South Dakota researchers have   come up with a relatively simple and inexpensive way to get   college kids to eat more fruit and veggies -- send them   newsletters.
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When some students set out to learn about nutrition, the lessons hit closer to home than many of them expected.
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Master P hasn't just cleaned up his act. He's gone back to school &#151; middle school.
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The program will try to replicate the success of a Rockefeller program that increased the production of grains like wheat, corn and rice in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
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Senior volunteers are contributing their time to help struggling school systems.
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By Doug Pacey, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Sep. 20--The first Associated Press state prep football polls of the  season were released Tuesday night and three Northwest Conference schools are  ranked in the Class 2A top 10.
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George SorosÂs money will, among other things, pay for fertilizers and improved seeds to raise crop yields, classrooms and health clinics.
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An elementary school program that aimed to build children's social skills and emotional control seems to have had long-lasting effects, according to researchers.
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Across Sri Lanka and Indonesia, schools reopened in an effort to restore a semblance of normalcy.
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Nearly two years after their experiments were destroyed in the Columbia shuttle explosion, high school students are getting a second chance to see how space affects everyday things such as hair, flowering seeds and plant food.