2010年8月31日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Texas governor offers school grants to spur sharing (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:34 PM PDT

Reuters - Texas schools that cut bureaucratic costs by sharing services -- from accounting to transportation -- would get grants worth 10 percent of their savings under a plan Governor Rick Perry proposed on Tuesday.

Wen says rote learning must go in Chinese schools (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:04 AM PDT

Reuters - Chinese schools have to get their students to be creative and think for themselves, Premier Wen Jiabao told officials, in reference to the rote-learning deeply ingrained in the national education system.

Private colleges 'act local' with financial aid (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 09:00 PM PDT

** ADDS ADVANCE RESTRICTIONS ** ** ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, AUG. 31, 2010 AND THEREAFTER ** This Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 picture shows Joshua Williams in downtown Chicago. Williams, 22, a 2010 Northwestern graduate who graduated from high school on Chicago's South Side, sought Northwestern out rather than being courted. A debater and poet who was raised by his grandmother, Williams settled on Northwestern as a high-school sophomore, attended a summer debate camp there and won financial aid to cover tuition. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)AP - Hoping to portray themselves as more affordable and all-around better neighbors, private colleges from Appalachia to Boston are sweetening financial aid packages for students from their own backyards.


Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 11:06 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Growing up in Chicago, Arne Duncan learned early that education was a stark dividing line â€Â" sometimes literally between life and death.

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