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• Dog attends class with autistic boy; battle looms (AP)
• King memorial effort tweaks design to add security (AP)
• SAT scores dip for high school class of 2009 (AP)
• Houston schools ban 'sexting' (AFP)

Dog attends class with autistic boy; battle looms (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:20 PM PDT AP - Kaleb Drew went to first grade on Tuesday tethered to his Labrador retriever, over the school's objections, but his family is optimistic they'll win a court battle to keep the dog in class.

King memorial effort tweaks design to add security (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2009 12:14 PM PDT AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan is offering to pull some strings to get construction started on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial planned for the National Mall.

SAT scores dip for high school class of 2009 (AP) Posted: 25 Aug 2009 02:09 PM PDT AP - Through the early 1990s and early 2000s, average scores on the SAT college entrance exam moved steadily upward. Now, for the last five years, they've been drifting back down.

Houston schools ban 'sexting' (AFP) Posted: 25 Aug 2009 09:42 AM PDT AFP - In Houston, Texas, thousands of students are returning to school to discover a new rule: no "sexting" -- the distribution of nude or semi-nude photographs or videos by text message.

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