2009年2月4日星期三

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News

New school to study ways to harness tech's power (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 11:35 PM CST

AP - Technology is changing the world so rapidly that even geniuses need help making sense of it all.

Obamas read to DC school children in surprise stop (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 01:24 PM CST

AP - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have made a surprise stop at a public school to read to children.

Citigroup deploys $36.5 billion, eyes exit on Mets (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 02:10 PM CST

A taxi passes a Citibank branch in Singapore, January 21, 2009. (Alywin Chew./Reuters)Reuters - Citigroup Inc said it was using $36.5 billion in taxpayer bailout money to boost lending as political pressure intensified for the bank to end a $400 million baseball stadium sponsorship deal.


Debate rages over Hebrew charter school in NYC (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 03:56 AM CST

Maureen Gonzalez-Campbell talks about a new Hebrew Charter School which will open in Brooklyn in the fall of this year, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009 in New York. Gonzalez-Campbell, who is currently the deputy superintendent of the schools in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., will be the principal of the charter school, which will specialize in the modern Hebrew language using secular texts. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - Two years after the debut of a controversial public school focusing on Arabic language and culture, a Hebrew language charter school is opening in New York City, stoking further debate about the purpose of a public school education.


Administrator's military record questioned in Ill. (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2009 03:54 AM CST

AP - A Southern Illinois University administrator who told the student newspaper vivid stories of his heroism during the Vietnam War has been accused of lying about his military record.
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