Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Worker decries for-profit school tactics, to testify (Reuters)
• NJ gov: Change how public school teachers are paid (AP)
• Students: Danza made the grade as English teacher (AP)
• Obama: Education key to economic success (AP)
• Mass. man sues school official over bullying case (AP)
• New tool helps explore path to more tech grads (AP)
• Calls for longer school years face budget reality (AP)

Worker decries for-profit school tactics, to testify (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:07 PM PDT Reuters - An employee at a for-profit college, due to testify before a senate committee this week, told lawmakers in a letter that she was pressured to twist information about former students to make them look more successful than they were.

NJ gov: Change how public school teachers are paid (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 02:01 PM PDT AP - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he wants to use new methods to evaluate and pay the state's public school teachers.

Students: Danza made the grade as English teacher (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:26 PM PDT AP - When former sitcom star Tony Danza began teaching English at a Philadelphia high school, no one really knew what to expect. Not even Tony Danza.

Obama: Education key to economic success (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 10:55 AM PDT AP - Determined to energize dispirited Democrats, President Barack Obama told New Mexico voters on Tuesday that Republicans would reverse the progress he's made on education reform and student aid.

Mass. man sues school official over bullying case (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 08:37 AM PDT AP - A Masschusetts man claims in a lawsuit that his free speech rights were violated when he was removed from a public meeting for criticizing school officials in the case of a teenager who committed suicide after allegedly being bullied relentlessly.

New tool helps explore path to more tech grads (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 08:22 AM PDT AP - Policymakers and philanthropists have a new resource in the effort to increase the number of graduates in science, technology, engineering and math.

Calls for longer school years face budget reality (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 06:18 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's call for a longer school day and year for America's kids echoes a similar call he made a year ago to little effect, illustrating just how deeply entrenched the traditional school calendar is and how little power the federal government has to change it.

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