About Cassyetta Price

The walls lack a student-of-the-month plaque, an honor roll list and a trophy display case. Outside the classroom, you won't find any school group competing in sports or academic contests. Yet, students flock here every day, year-round. Dozens more are on a waiting list. Welcome to Key Learning Community, the first Indianapolis elementary school to rely on the multiple intelligence theory that learning can't always be measured by standardized tests. The Indianapolis Public Schools elementary opened in 1987. A middle school followed in 1993, and a high school opened in 1999.

He may be a U.S. Marine, but Randy Hubert cherishes the memory of making pillows with his two little sisters at camp. "They're actually kind of cool," he says. On the cushions they scribbled "little girly messages" and then swapped pillows, he says. That way, they had a loving reminder of one another when they went back to their separate homes. Hubert, 26, and his sisters have lived apart most of

M any youth eagerly participate in community service projects, whether spearheaded by church groups or with a nonprofit organization whose mission matches their interests. But sometimes "community service" gets a bad name when mandated by schools, especially when used as a penalty for some infraction or as another layer of requirements for graduation. The Indiana Department of Education would like

T he air was cool, but not cold, and the snow was slushy instead of pristine. Anchorage in early March felt a lot like Indianapolis to five students from Crestview Elementary, who were in Alaska for the start of the 2005 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Most of the students were prepared for the roar of the crowd as thousands of people cheered the 79 mushers and their dog teams as they moved their sl

W hat do actor Samuel L. Jackson, rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton have in common? All were raised by their grandparents. And they aren't alone, according to Megan Dolbin-MacNab, a marriage and family therapist and human development professor at Virginia Tech who has done extensive research on grandparents raising grandchildren. Dolbin-MacNab says 4.5 million chil