2009年6月15日星期一

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


PE requirement isn't enough to fight obesity (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 03:49 PM PDT

In this photo taken May 26, 2009 Betty Hale, center, instructs a physical education class in a 100-year-old gymnasium at Eberhart Elementary School in Chicago. Although the school has a newer gym, for much of the day it doubles as a cafeteria where the school's 1,800-plus students are offered breakfast and lunch. Time and space limitations mean each class gets physical education just once a week for 40 minutes. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - The gym at Eberhart Elementary School is bright and spacious — with high ceilings, several basketball hoops, even a large, colorful climbing wall.


Higher-ed pinching pushes college presses to brink (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 12:34 PM PDT

AP - Chancellor Michael Martin doesn't question the prestige the Louisiana State University Press brings to his school, with Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction and poetry, tomes on Southern history and culture and other noted works to its credit.

Court to determine if bankruptcy hearing needed (AP)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 09:27 AM PDT

AP - The Supreme Court will decide whether student loans can be dismissed through bankruptcy with just a notice to the collector instead of a hearing proving that paying the money back would cause an "undue hardship."
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