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Dem hopefuls setting sights on Iowa win

WASHINGTON - For now, the Democratic presidential campaign has become a four-letter word: Iowa. More »

Desegregation rulings causing confusion

Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they'll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge's "arbitrary" desegregation order. It'll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of white teachers with black ones, they say. More »

Government study finds Americans now reading less

NEW YORK - The latest National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) report draws on a variety of sources, public and private, and essentially reaches one conclusion: Americans are reading less. More »

Report: College costs continue rising in U.S.

The price of college again rose faster than the inflation rate this year, climbing 6.6 percent at four-year public schools and outstripping increases in the financial aid that lowers what most students actually pay. More »

Diversity training planned for Olympic Trial volunteers

EUGENE, Ore. - Earlier this year, black high school students from Portland's Roosevelt High School were subjected to racial slurs at a boy's basketball tournament in Eugene. More »