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Rod Paige, an educator, coach and administrator who rolled out the nation’s landmark No Child Left Behind law as the first African American to serve as U.S. Education secretary, died Tuesday. Former ...

The first Black person to hold that cabinet position, he resigned amid discord over George W. Bush’s major legislative effort to improve public education nationwide. By Robert D. McFadden Rod Paige, ...

Rod Paige, an educator, coach, and administrator who rolled out the nation’s landmark No Child Left Behind law as the first African American to serve as U.S. secretary of education, died Tuesday.

HOUSTON – Houston Mayor John Whitmire confirms the former Houston ISD superintendent and U.S. Education Secretary, Rod Paige, died on Tuesday. He was 92. Paige had a distinguished career in public ...

Rod Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education, university football coach and architect of the "Houston Miracle" as Houston ISD superintendent, has died at 92. As HISD's superintendent from 1994 to ...

Sir Rod Stewart has detailed his wishes for after he dies as his wife Penny Lancaster shared an emotional tribute to her beloved husband. The rock star, 80, has been reflecting on where he would he ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. Florida rapper Rod Wave was arrested on drug and weapon ...

Rod Wave was recently booked on drug and weapon charges on the very same day he was nominated for his first-ever Grammy. The 27-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rodarius Green, was arrested by the ...

Belgium’s Tihange Nuclear Power Plant unit 3 will have its control rod system modernised over several years after Framatome was selected by Engie's Electrabel to carry out the work. Unit 3 is the last ...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it planned to add five more rare earth elements and related materials to its export controls list, tightening its grip on the sector ahead of talks between ...

United Nations Command, U.S. Forces Korea, and Combined Forces Command commander Gen. Xavier T. Brunson (2nd from left) talks to a Korean War veteran at a ceremony in South Korea to commemorate the ...