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Brooklyn Janitor Charged in Rape of Middle School Girl

A janitor at a New York City middle school has been arrested and charged in the rape of a 13-year-old student, officials said today. Ambiorix Rodriguez, 32, is accused of raping and sexually abusing a female student multiple times in the basement of the Public School of Marketing and Legal Studies in Brooklyn, police told...

Project Aims to Get Books to Children in Haiti

Buying a book for your kids could make all the difference in the world to a child in a completely different part of the world. That's the idea, anyway, behind a new project involving children's book publisher Kids Can Press and ONEXONE, a nonprofit organization committed to improving the lives of children...

Seventh-Grader Achieves Near-Perfect Math SAT [VIDEO]

Abhinav Venigalla missed a perfect SAT math score by 10 points. The Florida middle school student has four more years to achieve perfection. The eighth-grader took the college admission exam during his seventh-grade year as part of a Johns Hopkins University competition and earned the highest score in the state. Still,...

It's Hard Out There for a Mall Santa

Getting paid to dress up as cheery, chubby Santa Claus may seem like a cushy seasonal job, but the truth is, it's hard out there for a Santa -- especially a mall Santa. Just ask professional Santa Claus Tom Carmody, a former high school teacher who's been "Clausing" for the past eight years, four of which were spent at...

Background on middle school

Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both.

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