2008年9月25日星期四

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News

University of Ill. virtual campus flounders (AP)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 04:07 AM CDT

AP - An $8.9 million online campus launched by the University of Illinois nine months ago has had disappointing enrollment and fewer course offerings than expected, but the man who created it isn't giving up.

Mexico quietly helps emigrants to US learn Spanish (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 02:35 PM CDT

Teacher Fany Edith Hernandez Vite works with a student at a Spanish-enrichment summer camp in Clearwater, Fla. Wednesday July 9, 2008. The Mexican government provides books, materials and even teachers to provide Spanish-enrichment classes to American schools, colleges and non-profit organizations, in a little known effort to help Mexican immigrants and other Spanish speakers  be fluent in Spanish. The program helps a population with a high drop-out  and illiteracy rate master their native language that  in turn prepares them to learn English. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)AP - For more than a decade, as the immigration debate has swelled on both sides of the border, the Mexican government has been quietly providing money, materials and even teachers to American schools, colleges and nonprofit organizations.


Bystanders pull students from burning bus in Fla. (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 09:11 AM CDT

AP - Passers-by are being credited with pulling students from a school bus that caught fire after it was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer in north Florida, killing one teenager, a school official said.
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