By his own count, he'd helped the children of a half-dozen families represented there to navigate the competitive waters of the New York City private school scene, and to achieve a goal that's been the focus of much angst dating back to pre-kindergarten.

WSJ: Not for Dolts Anymore

Roig's school also was the scene of a mass shooting in December that claimed 20 students and six educators at the school.

NPR: Wounded Wis. Policeman To Attend State Of Union

Jeremy Burnside of East Lake, Ohio, left work Wednesday, October 10, and walked several blocks to SuccessTech Academy, the downtown Cleveland, Ohio, school that had been the scene of a shooting hours earlier.

CNN: I-Report Exchange blog

While Sandy Hook Elementary school remains shut as a crime scene, the rest of town is still trying to return to a state of normalcy.

WSJ: Newtown Residents Divided Over School Site 'Compromise'

Mrs Ballard's husband, Nick, remembers lining the six children up at the front door in the morning ready for school "and marching them out, like a scene out of the Sound of Music".

BBC: Fuller family deaths: Aunt's 'sleepless nights'

After a year's study at the Guildhall School of Music in England, she hit the London jazz scene.

NPR: Stacey Kent: 'The Boy Next Door'

On Monday around 60 school girls were taken ill with similar symptoms in a neighbouring province, Parwan, the scene of another such incident in April.

BBC: Pupils boycott Afghanistan school

LITTLETON, Colorado (CNN) -- After word from the bomb squad that a suburban Denver high school was safe, investigators entered the building on Wednesday to collect evidence and photograph the scene of the rampage that left 15 people dead, including two teen-age suspects.

CNN: School cleared of bombs, investigators enter

She got her start with a high school punk band then graduated to partner with the loose collective of Canadian musicians known as Broken Social Scene and most unexpectedly, the electro-rock rapper, Peaches.

NPR: Hearing a Breakthrough: Feist's 'Reminder'