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Tough stuff: Sia's Chandelier dancer Maddie Ziegler says she trains 40 hours a week as coach Abby Lee Miller explains she pushed Maddie to home school to further her career She found global fame as the dancer in Australian singer Sia's Chandelier video, which is nominated for two awards at next month's MTV Music Awards.

A 12-year-old Southern California boy who hopes to become a computer engineer will be the youngest full-time student in the history of MiraCosta College when he enrolls next month.

My 16-year-old daughter will not go to school. She seems to have a fear of school.

It seems like yesterday we were lamenting the end of kindergarten and celebrating the start of summer.

The elder Republican implied the senator from Ohio has already risked too much with social conservatives to endorse an international convention they hate.

Zach Braff's latest is sweet and thoughtful. The actor-director-writer contemplates life, death, family and pursuing one's dreams.

"Wish I was Here" stars Zach Braff plays a struggling actor who must homeschool his kids, played by Joey King and Pierce Gagnon .

For Rachel Ragone, school came first, and no matter how tough things got, giving up was not an option.

In spite of the Kickstarter hoopla and general hype surrounding Zach Braff 's return to feature filmmaking following a decade-long absence, Wish I Was Her e is just about the movie you'd expect.

Lavonne Burgs gets her school required vaccinations from Public Health Nurse Elizabeth Grant, RN-BSN, at the Bartow County Health Department.

The good will, sincerity and insightfulness that marked Zach Braff's 2004 smart directorial debut "Garden State" come up short in his long-awaited follow-up, "Wish I Was Here," a generically broad and vaguely life-affirming film that constantly veers into sitcom territory even as Braff struggles to steer it to a higher level.

They will each attend college in Michigan. Hollis will pursue an interest in physical therapy with hopes of owning her own facility.

Two Modesto grads have joined Teach For America, committing to teach for two years in high-needs schools near New Orleans and in the Bay Area.

Long before eight states began rejecting Common Core school reforms, the sweeping new academic standards were considered enemy combatants in Lesley Hodge's Cincinnati-area home.

Manuel Tellado picked up enrollment and financial aid forms at a community meeting last week for Hilda Goodling Impact Academy, a new private school in York to be run by 3Cord Inc. Tellado, 18, used to go to New Hope Academy Charter School, which has been forced to close because its charter wasn't renewed for reasons including academic performance.

Even though there are more resources for parent, sometimes it's easier to learn in an interactive environment and the Maryland Science Center has programs just for kids who learn at home.

Ohio is one of the many states in the U.S. that is scheduled to implement the controversial Common Core requirements next year.

Fincke shares von Trier's explicit, unsentimental vision. In what ostensibly is a coming-of-age story set in the tumultuous 1960s, Fincke tears away the typical wash of sepia-toned nostalgia associated with such novels.

NYU Students and Incubator Entrepreneurs Join NYU Faculty as Instructors and Mentors to Middle and High School Students and Teachers; Professors Open Labs for Real ResearchNew York City Schools Chance... will be the gathering place for the intellectually curious this summer.

Future student Dallin Schmutz looks over things as Spectrum Academy, a charter school for students with high-functioning autism, gives a tour of the construction in Pleasant Grove Wednesday, July 9, 2014.