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• Garbage trucks lead to discovery of dead Fla. girl (AP)
• 5 students arrested for fighting at Chicago school (AP)
• Education reformer Theodore Sizer dies at 77 (AP)
• ND aerospace school suspends flights (AP)
• Colo. college leaders seek higher ed rescue plan (AP)
• Duncan Urges Overhaul of ‘Mediocre’ Teacher Colleges (Bloomberg)
• Lawsuits filed to halt Hawaii teacher furloughs (AP)
• ITT Educational 3Q profit up on higher enrollment (AP)
• GMAT: The MBA Job Seeker's Best Friend (BusinessWeek)

Garbage trucks lead to discovery of dead Fla. girl (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:54 PM PDT AP - After 7-year-old Somer Thompson vanished on her way home from school, investigators tailed nine garbage trucks from her neighborhood to a Georgia landfill nearly 50 miles away, then methodically picked through the trash as each rig spilled its load.

5 students arrested for fighting at Chicago school (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:49 PM PDT AP - Five students have been arrested for fighting at a Chicago high school less than a month after an honor student was killed in a brutal beating recorded in a cell phone video camera.

Education reformer Theodore Sizer dies at 77 (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:41 PM PDT AP - Theodore Ryland Sizer, a passionate leader in education reform who led Ivy League education departments and progressive high schools, has died after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 77.

ND aerospace school suspends flights (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 04:56 PM PDT AP - The University of North Dakota's aerospace school has suspended training flights for one day after a series of landing and take-off mishaps at the Grand Forks airport.

Colo. college leaders seek higher ed rescue plan (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 02:49 PM PDT AP - Racing to come up with proposals to save higher education from a financial cliff, Colorado's college presidents held a brainstorming summit Thursday at the state Capitol to come up with new ideas that all of them could support.

Duncan Urges Overhaul of ‘Mediocre’ Teacher Colleges (Bloomberg) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 02:06 PM PDT Bloomberg - Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. colleges aren’t adequately preparing teachers for jobs in the nation’s elementary and secondary classrooms, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said.

Lawsuits filed to halt Hawaii teacher furloughs (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 07:56 AM PDT AP - Two groups of parents angered by the prospect that Hawaii children will be in school nearly three dozen fewer days over the next 20 months have filed lawsuits seeking to halt teacher furloughs set to begin Friday.

ITT Educational 3Q profit up on higher enrollment (AP) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 06:27 AM PDT AP - ITT Educational Services Inc. said on Thursday that a big jump in new students helped propel net income up 50 percent in the third quarter, but shares tumbled as its bad-debt expenses grew.

GMAT: The MBA Job Seeker's Best Friend (BusinessWeek) Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - The primary purpose of the Graduate Management Admissions Test may be winning the favor of B-school admissions committees, but that's not all those four hours of geometry and critical reasoning questions are good for. For many students, the scores they get on the GMAT will reach an audience that might be even more important -- job recruiters.

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