Yahoo! News: Education News

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• States scramble for reform to get stimulus money (AP)
• Analysis: Obama foes contrived back-to-school fuss (AP)
• Obama calls flap over education speech 'puzzling' (AFP)
• Gates brings education message to MTV, Nickelodeon (AP)

States scramble for reform to get stimulus money (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2009 01:23 PM PDT AP - Three cash-strapped states may find themselves left at the starting line in the competition for more than $4 billion in education stimulus funding if they don't amend laws that prevent student test results from being tied to teacher evaluations.

Analysis: Obama foes contrived back-to-school fuss (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2009 12:02 PM PDT AP - There may be a lesson plan for grown-ups in the contrived controversy about Barack Obama's back-to-school pep talk to students. It would be to do your homework, just as the president told the pupils.

Obama calls flap over education speech 'puzzling' (AFP) Posted: 09 Sep 2009 06:25 AM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama said he found "puzzling" the furious debate leading up to his speech this week to US school children.

Gates brings education message to MTV, Nickelodeon (AP) Posted: 09 Sep 2009 03:46 AM PDT AP - Students who might be too glued to their televisions to keep up with homework are going to find channels like MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon prodding them to get on task and graduate.

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