When Army Sgt. Jeffrey Reed found that Iraqi children were playing soccer with deflated balls or resorting to kicking around soda bottles, the lifelong soccer fan wrote home to organize a big shipment of balls....

As the economic outlook grows increasingly bleak, school systems in the Washington region are delaying construction and even considering shuttering schools, moves that could force wide-scale shuffling of students among campuses and disrupt deep connections that students and families have to neigh......

As the economic outlook grows increasingly bleak, school systems in the Washington region are delaying construction and even considering shuttering schools, moves that could force wide-scale shuffling of students among campuses and disrupt deep connections that students and families have to neigh......

As the economic outlook grows increasingly bleak, school systems in the Washington region are delaying construction and even considering shuttering schools, moves that could force wide-scale shuffling of students among campuses and disrupt deep connections that students and families have to neighbor...

When Jerry Hill retired as principal of Ball's Bluff Elementary School in June, he didn't end his involvement with his students -- he just changed his hours....

When Jerry Hill retired as principal of Ball's Bluff Elementary School in June, he didn't end his involvement with his students -- he just changed his hours....