Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Ala. prof won't be charged in 1993 Mass. mail bomb (AP)
• Ex-dean accused of making NYC students do chores (AP)
• Senators spar over for-profit education (Reuters)
• Android App Spygate: Tips to Put an End to Spying Apps (PC World)
• Have You Been Burned By Wall Street? (U.S. News & World Report)
• Stop Trashing Teachers! (The Daily Beast)

Ala. prof won't be charged in 1993 Mass. mail bomb (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:35 PM PDT AP - A former professor accused of killing three colleagues in a shooting rampage in Alabama earlier this year won't be charged in an attempted mail-bombing in Massachusetts 17 years ago.

Ex-dean accused of making NYC students do chores (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 03:12 PM PDT AP - One St. John's University student was ordered to make meals at a veteran administrator's home. Another withdrew cash that was delivered to the same official at a casino. A third had to answer personal e-mails — or else be kicked out of school.

Senators spar over for-profit education (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 01:34 PM PDT Reuters - A U.S. Senate committee probing allegations that some for-profit schools push students into big debt and fail to educate them will likely introduce a bill tightening rules next year, Sen. Tom Harkin said on Thursday.

Android App Spygate: Tips to Put an End to Spying Apps (PC World) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 11:36 AM PDT PC World - Worried your Android apps are spying on you? You should be, according to a recent study that found several popular Android Apps regularly share your location and critical phone data such as your phone number with advertisers and others. Researchers from Intel Labs, Penn State, and Duke University randomly selected 30 out of 358 popular apps from the Android Market for this study. The computer scientists were able to track each application's behavior using a special monitoring program called TaintDroid developed by the researchers.

Have You Been Burned By Wall Street? (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:33 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - During his summer break from college, my son tried to sell me on the merits of the popular television series Burn Notice. In this TV drama, Jeffrey Donovan plays Michael Westen, a former covert operative who unjustly receives a "burn notice"--an espionage-style termination that results in the immediate eradication of his assets and influence, leaving him isolated and alone.

Stop Trashing Teachers! (The Daily Beast) Posted: 29 Sep 2010 08:38 PM PDT The Daily Beast - Obama’s misguided policies and the overhyped doc Waiting For "Superman" have turned America against its teachers. Education expert Diane Ravitch on why the vitriol is so dangerous.

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