St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As horses neighed and roosters crowed, Dakota Simon leaned over a fence at a farm for abused or unwanted animals and fed a homemade biscuit to a grateful hound called White Dog.

A St. Louis charter school is growing so quickly it can't find a building in time to open a new high school this fall.

New media can drive the design and sale of yearbooks.
TALK: Have digital photography and the web changed how you keep and share photos?

Washington University Chancellor Mark Wrighton used the podium given to him on Tuesday to highlight how the school benefits the region and outlined some of the school's plans for the future, including a new public health institute.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Two years after the state changed how it pays for public school education, rural schools across Missouri have had to scale back or eliminate their programs aimed at gifted students.

The axis formed by sisters Sara and Molly Cantonwine extends far beyond the south St. Louis County subdivision they call home, transcending family to inform the education of the 30,000 children under the supervision of their mother, the superintendent of the St. Louis Public Schools.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich may be setting up another potentially ugly showdown with state lawmakers.

Special education faculty and administrators continued to negotiate late into the night Monday in hopes of averting a strike, which would leave a void of special education services across most of St. Clair County.

Visitors from around the country have stopped at facilities from Hillsboro to St. Louis, hoping to learn how to better handle kids who have done wrong.

The Perrys are part of a growing home-school movement. In 1999, according to federal statistics, there were 850,000 home-schooled children in the United States. In 2003, that number rose to 1.1 million.

The president of the State Board of Education said Tuesday that the state had intervened in the St. Louis Public Schools in response to years of academic failure, not as retribution against the elected St. Louis School Board.

Laptop computers have gone mainstream in many St. Louis private school classrooms and are emerging in local public schools.

Troy Buchanan High School teachers blow the whistle on student liplocks. Troy Buchanan High School teachers blow the whistle on student liplocks.

Teachers strike's sour aftertaste: Shorter winter, spring breaks
Tatonya Roberts sends her two children to visit their "auntie" in Minnesota during spring break.

A two-year push to coordinate efforts for the city's after-school programs will be announced today, an effort organizers predict will improve the academic fortunes and quality of life for thousands of St. Louis children.