2009年3月12日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Police: 6 charged over staged fights at group home (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 03:58 PM PDT

AP - Police issued arrest warrants Thursday for six employees of a Corpus Christi state home accused of staging or failing to report after-hours fights between mentally disabled residents, and they say more arrests are possible.

4-day school week gains momentum amid recession (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 02:23 PM PDT

AP - With the nation's school districts strapped for cash, more are considering a schedule that delights students and makes working parents cringe: Class only four days a week.

Schools turn to mass layoffs to ease deficits (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 01:32 PM PDT

Reuters - Some U.S. public school districts are turning to mass layoffs of teachers and support staff to ease ballooning deficits in the latest sign of how the recession is hurting ordinary Americans.

Boom amid bust: Med schools grow as economy tanks (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2009 12:30 AM PDT

This photo, supplied by Texas Tech University, shows Paul Foster School of Medicine's founding dean, Dr. Jose Manuel De La Rosa, signing his name to the medical school's new building room during the topping out ceremony at Texas Tech in El Paso,Texas, on Sept. 8, 2006. Responding to warnings of a looming doctor shortage, existing schools are increasing enrollment, and new ones are opening or under development from El Paso in West Texas to Kalamazoo in West Michigan.(AP Photo/Texas Tech,Nati Perez)AP - You wouldn't know there was an economic crisis the way the medical school business is booming these days.

Obama Details Plan for Overhauling Education (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 12:16 PM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - In his first major speech on overhauling the country's education system, President Barack Obama broke with members of his own party and urged states to open more charter schools and expand programs that pay teachers based on performance. The president also called on states to stop "low-balling" academic standards and end the use of "off-the-shelf" student testing. "We have let our grades slip, our schools crumble, our teacher quality fall short, and other nations outpace us," Obama told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. "What is at stake is nothing less than the American dream."

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