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• Police: Decomposed body is missing Calif. teen (AP)
• Rural schools from apartheid cloud S.Africa's future (Reuters)
• 'Common Core' standards clearer, more rigorous (AP)

Police: Decomposed body is missing Calif. teen (AP) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 03:55 PM PDT AP - Authorities identified a decomposed body Wednesday as that of a 17-year-old girl who was likely kidnapped while walking home from school last week in Southern California.

Rural schools from apartheid cloud S.Africa's future (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jul 2010 07:21 AM PDT Reuters - A tap with running water came when apartheid ended, electricity came 14 years later but the text books for each student have yet to arrive at Knoppiesfontein Primary Farm School.

'Common Core' standards clearer, more rigorous (AP) Posted: 20 Jul 2010 09:30 PM PDT AP - An analysis by an education policy think tank finds that the common academic standards many states will be adopting are clearer and more rigorous than those currently used in most states.

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