Today is Friday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2011. There are 141 days left in the year.
Today is Monday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 2011. There are 145 days left in the year.
California's secretary of state on Tuesday cleared a group to begin collecting signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn a first-in-the-nation law requiring public schools to teach the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies lessons
Today is Sunday, July 31, the 212th day of 2011. There are 153 days left in the year.
Back home, where Rick Sluder is the police chief of a village of 3,000 surrounded by corn and soybean fields, traffic wouldn't be an issue. But this morning, at the helm of a rented van mired in a New York City traffic jam thicker than the summer heat, he's way out of his jurisdiction.
Every semester, Cheryl Carpenter tries to think of new ways to introduce Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" to her college students.
Today is Saturday, July 23, the 204th day of 2011. There are 161 days left in the year.
A family advocacy group is already challenging a new California law that adds lessons about gays to social studies classes.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill making California the first state in the nation to add lessons about gays and lesbians to social studies classes in public schools.
Today is Friday, July 15, the 196th day of 2011. There are 169 days left in the year.
California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum.
Today is Thursday, July 7, the 188th day of 2011. There are 177 days left in the year.
Today is Wednesday, June 29, the 180th day of 2011. There are 185 days left in the year.
As she began a tour on Friday to learn about the brutality of apartheid, 17-year-old Boipelo Ndaba was skeptical that anything good would come of learning about that dark chapter of South Africa's past that she's too young to have experienced herself.
U.S. students don't know much about American history.
Today is Tuesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2011. There are 193 days left in the year. Day. Summer arrives at 1:16 p.m. EDT.
Today is Monday, June 13, the 164th day of 2011. There are 201 days left in the year.
Today is Sunday, June 5, the 156th day of 2011. There are 209 days left in the year.
It's moving and mating season for Florida's estimated 1.3 million alligators, and experts are warning locals as well as tourists to stay out of the way.
Today is Saturday, May 28, the 148th day of 2011. There are 217 days left in the year.
Today is Friday, May 20, the 140th day of 2011. There are 225 days left in the year.
Documents from gay rights history are on display for the first time at the Library of Congress as part of an exhibit on the nation's constitutional history and civil rights protections.
Today is Thursday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2011. There are 233 days left in the year.
Today is Wednesday, May 4, the 124th day of 2011. There are 241 days left in the year.
Today is Tuesday, April 26, the 116th day of 2011. There are 249 days left in the year.