2008年12月9日星期二

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News

Gates Foundation to invest in community colleges (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 11:42 PM CST

AP - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation would like to encourage more 20-somethings to get a post-high school degree or certificate before starting a family.

Fla. gov.: State should probe reform school graves (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 05:26 PM CST

In this Oct. 21, 2008 file photo, Dick Colon, a member of the White House Boys, walks through grave sites near the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Fla. Several men who suffered through severe beatings at what's now called the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys believe the crosses mark the graves of boys who were killed at the school, victims of punishments that went too far. (AP Photo/Phil Coale, File)AP - A dirt road near a state-run reform school where children were abused in the 1950s and '60s ends at a makeshift cemetery — more than 30 white metal crosses neatly lined in four rows.

Ex-Wash Post editor Downie joins Arizona J school (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 01:42 PM CST

In this April 7, 2007 file photo, Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., holds up a previously won Pulitzer Prize medallion. Downie Jr. has accepted a teaching position at Arizona State University's journalism school, the school announced Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, has accepted a teaching position at Arizona State University's journalism school, the school announced Monday.

College Board settles NY, Conn. student loan probe (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 01:26 PM CST

AP - New York officials say the national association that writes and administers the SAT has resolved a two-state investigation into deceptive marketing of student loans.

Detroit public schools in fiscal emergency (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 01:10 PM CST

Reuters - Detroit public schools are in a financial emergency and a manager will be appointed to take over the district's finances, Michigan's superintendent of public instruction said on Monday.

Obama education pick sparks conflict (AP)

Posted: 08 Dec 2008 11:15 AM CST

A Nov. 13, 2008 file photo shows Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan smiling during a news conference in Chicago. Considered a potential choice for education secretary in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet, Duncan visited with outgoing Education Secretary Margaret Spellings in Washington Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, on what he said was a purely social call and had nothing to do with the possibility of being chosen education secretary. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - President-elect Barack Obama has not signaled what he will do to fix the country's failing schools, but his choice of education secretary will say a lot about the policies he may pursue.

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