Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Gibbs: Furor over Obama's speech 'silly season' (AP)
• Maine widens school laptop program to high schools (AP)
• The Urgent Need for Education Reform (BusinessWeek)
• Miss. school bus hero's mom not surprised at feat (AP)

Gibbs: Furor over Obama's speech 'silly season' (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 05:07 PM PDT AP - The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama's plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation's students.

Maine widens school laptop program to high schools (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 08:10 AM PDT AP - The state that was first to provide laptops to every seventh and eighth grader in its public schools is taking its campaign to the high schools, and Maine's top education official vowed Thursday that every high school student will have a laptop computer within two years.

The Urgent Need for Education Reform (BusinessWeek) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - Colleges and universities are some of the world's most important assets. We need these institutions to enable citizens to be passionate, lifelong learners and doers. We need them to help advance the world's thought capital and catalyze the translation of ideas into solutions. We need them to produce innovators who can solve the big social problems we face related to issues of health care and energy.

Miss. school bus hero's mom not surprised at feat (AP) Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:26 AM PDT AP - The mother of a Mississippi high school football standout says she wasn't surprised to hear he wrestled a loaded gun from a 14-year-old girl on school bus.

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