2010年2月18日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Education News


8 missionaries freed in Haiti, return to US (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 06:14 PM PST

Silas Thompson, 19, of Twin Falls, Idaho, is surrounded by reporters as he prepares to leave Miami International Airport Hotel in Miami, Thursday, Feb 18, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)AP - American missionaries accused of child trafficking in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake returned home Thursday and urged the safe release of the two women left behind in a Port-au-Prince jail.


Slain Ala. prof remembered as caring father figure (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 04:58 PM PST

In this undated photo released Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, by the University of Alabama-Huntsville, faculty member Joseph Leahy  is shown. Leahy was wounded during a shooting at a university faculty meeting Friday, Feb. 12 at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Ala. (AP Photo/University of Alabama-Huntsville) NO SALESAP - A biology department chairman gunned down at a faculty meeting was remembered Thursday as a father figure who cared deeply about his students, the kind of professor who kept his office door open in case they needed to talk about personal problems.


FCC expands broadband access at schools (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 04:53 PM PST

Reuters - The Federal Communications Commission voted to expand a school program that is likely to help increase Americans' access to high-speed Internet, a major goal of the upcoming National Broadband Plan.

Career Education shares gain on earnings report (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 02:52 PM PST

AP - Shares of Career Education Corp. surged nearly 14 percent Thursday after the for-profit education provider's earnings beat Wall Street estimates. However, multiple analysts remained neutral or negative on the stock due to concerns about the impact of regulatory changes on the company's future.

Bus driver in fatal crash cited in 1999 collision (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 02:13 PM PST

AP - A school bus driver involved in a fatal collision near a middle school this week was cited for careless driving in a 1999 accident that killed a 2-year-old girl and touched off a national debate about motorists using cell phones.

Doc targeted by bomb calls for Ala. shooting probe (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 12:13 PM PST

AP - A Boston doctor who worked with the Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues is calling for a thorough investigation of the shootings.

Mexican kids drop out in droves on weak economy (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 10:27 AM PST

Reuters - About 700,000 children in Mexico dropped out of school last year as recession-stricken families pushed kids to work, and a weak economic recovery will allow only slight improvement in the drop-out rate in 2010, a top education official said.

Suit: Pa. school used webcams to spy on students (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 02:59 PM PST

Harriton High School is shown in Bryn Mawr, Pa., Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010.  A family alleges in a federal lawsuit that the suburban Philadelphia school district used school-issued laptop webcams to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A suburban Philadelphia school district used the webcams in school-issued laptops to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family claims in a federal lawsuit.


Bigger Tuition Bills and Student Loans Coming in 2011 (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 09:31 AM PST

U.S. News & World Report - Some of the nation's wealthiest and most generous colleges are asking their students to earn and borrow more to pay for college.

NH school reopens as tests seek cause of illness (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 05:54 AM PST

AP - A New Hampshire school where 22 students and staff were sickened has reopened as firefighters monitor school equipment to figure out the cause.

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