2010年3月23日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Education News


3 arrested as NC school board reverses busing plan (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 06:13 PM PDT

AP - The school board in North Carolina's capital city narrowly agreed Tuesday to roll back a policy that buses students to achieve diversity, following a tense meeting at which three people were arrested, others were forcibly removed and heated arguments echoed passions from an era past.

Harvard puts lectures, podcasts and more on iTunes U (Macworld.com)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:40 PM PDT

Macworld.com - Want an Ivy League education but don’t want to pay Ivy League prices? That’s not exactly what you’ll get from Harvard’s offerings at iTunes U, but you’re sure to find plenty of quality, Harvard-produced content at no cost to you.

Gun in Ala. campus shooting bought 2 decades ago (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:14 PM PDT

FILE - A Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 file police booking photograph released by the Huntsville (Ala.) Police Dept., shows college professor Amy Bishop, charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Bishop is scheduled for her first court appearance on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 in Huntsville. (AP Photo/Huntsville Police Dept., File)AP - The gun used to kill three people during a faculty meeting at an Alabama school was bought for the suspect's husband two decades ago when he said he was having problems with a neighbor, an investigator testified Tuesday.


Judge: No school prom but lesbian's right violated (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 04:43 PM PDT

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, center, flanked by an American Civil Liberties Union legal team, walks to the federal courthouse in Aberdeen, Miss., Monday, March 22, 2010, for a hearing regarding the ACLU's preliminary injunction to force the prom at her high school. McMillen was told by school authorities that she could not wear a tux or bring a same sex date to the prom on April 2. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - The prom's still off at a Mississippi high school that canceled it instead of letting a lesbian student bring her girlfriend, but a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the district's actions did violate the teen's constitutional rights.


Bleak budgets force schools to consider closure (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 12:23 PM PDT

This March 18, 2010 photo shows a school crossing sign above trash left across the street from McCoy Elementary School. McCoy Elementary is one of nearly half the schools in the Kansas City district expected to close before classes resume next fall, part of a wave of school closures across the country. Residents are fearful that the neighborhood could become even worse, attracting drug dealers and vandals when the children are gone. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - In a neighborhood dotted with boarded up homes, trash and gang graffiti, McCoy Elementary has been an oasis.


RBC names Grand Canyon Education 'Top Pick' (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 11:39 AM PDT

AP - An RBC analyst named Grand Canyon Education Inc. a "Top Pick" Tuesday, saying the for-profit school's decision to charge for more credit hours will accelerate earnings growth.

Court sides with debtor in student loan case (AP)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:38 AM PDT

AP - A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a man who wanted his student loans dismissed through bankruptcy without having to prove that paying the money back would cause an "undue hardship."

Boy killed when school bus in Minn. hits him (AP)

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 10:24 PM PDT

AP - Authorities say a 6-year-old boy has died after being hit by a school bus in the central Minnesota town of Pine River.

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