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• Parents protest Hawaii school closures (AP)
• 2 teens admit to role in Ore. school shooting plot (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Kansas faces big hole in school aid (AP)
• Morton: Ala. teachers should help with budget cuts (AP)
• Business: The New Liberal Art (BusinessWeek)
• Columbia Business School Admissions Tips (BusinessWeek)
• Somer Thompson lived near 161 sex offenders. Is that number high? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Parents protest Hawaii school closures (AP) Posted: 23 Oct 2009 04:16 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of angry parents protested Hawaii's statewide public school shutdown Friday, saying their children are losing out on education due to government budget cuts.

2 teens admit to role in Ore. school shooting plot (AP) Posted: 23 Oct 2009 12:58 PM PDT AP - Two Oregon teenagers have admitted their role in an alleged plot to shoot students and administrators at schools in the Willamette Valley farming town of Turner.

APNewsBreak: Kansas faces big hole in school aid (AP) Posted: 23 Oct 2009 10:58 AM PDT AP - New students in Kansas' public schools and declining property values have punched what could become a $70 million hole in the state's already shaky budget, a top education official confirmed Friday.

Morton: Ala. teachers should help with budget cuts (AP) Posted: 23 Oct 2009 07:02 AM PDT AP - Alabama schools Superintendent Joe Morton unveiled a plan to deal with budget cuts for fiscal year 2011 partly by making teachers pay more for health insurance and retirement benefits.

Business: The New Liberal Art (BusinessWeek) Posted: 23 Oct 2009 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - Ever since fleeing Europe's tyranny for the New World, Americans have established a collegiate system which emphasizes a broad, liberal arts education. Even as larger state schools mimicked European universities and offered undergraduate majors in vocational fields, the Ivy League schools and their peers, for the most part, resisted. "In America, we think more in terms of a broad undergraduate education," says Paul Danos, dean of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business (Tuck Full-Time MBA Profile). "Other parts of the world are much more specific. ...

Columbia Business School Admissions Tips (BusinessWeek) Posted: 23 Oct 2009 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - Guests: Mary Miller, assistant dean of admissions at Columbia Business School; international student Rui Francisco

Somer Thompson lived near 161 sex offenders. Is that number high? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Authorities announced Thursday that they have found the body of seven-year-old Somer Thompson in a Georgia landfill 50 miles from her home. She was abducted Monday as she was walking home from school in Orange Park, Fla.

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