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San Jose: Program helps turn apathetic teens into motivated students As an eighth-grader at Ocala Middle School, Nancy Campos constantly ditched class, yelled at teachers when she did show up and spent a majority of her time in the principal's office. Now a sophomore at Mount Pleasant High, Nancy has an A average, near perfect attendance and dreams of attending Stanford University. Mountain View High students return to school after being stranded in Paris Schools try fundraisers to save music, sports, small classes School furloughs leave parents in the lurch Learning to read: Genes play biggest role but teachers matter, study says Fisher: Reading for those who can't Late SJSU prof's 'greenhouse' to go on sale National Hispanic University in E. San Jose sold to for-profit college chain Volcanic fallout: Dozens of Los Gatos High School musicians stranded in Germany Psychedelics conference describes the long strange trip to the lab California's university system: What went wrong? Forty wild horses and burros gallop into the big city to be auctioned off to the public