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Despite scrutiny, special education money flows to for-profit residential treatment centers

Inside a taxpayer-funded treatment center for adoptees, tales of abuse, neglect and little oversight

Shrey Parikh bounces back, battles nerves and dominates spell-off to win the National Spelling Bee

Kenyan police arrest 8 girls on suspicion of arson a day after deadly school fire

Shrey Parikh wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee, beating Ishaan Gupta in a lightning-round tiebreaker

Fire rips through a dormitory at a girls’ school in Kenya, killing at least 16 students

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Prince William County schools barring student access to YouTube

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Jonathan Alger to step down after 2 years as American University’s president

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