Yahoo! News: Education News

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• LA teacher layoff pact seen as model for districts (AP)
• Despite fiery rhetoric, largest teachers union spending big for Dems (The Upshot)
• Egypt's education system needs an overhaul (Reuters)

LA teacher layoff pact seen as model for districts (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 04:26 PM PDT AP - A proposed agreement that would change how teachers are laid off in the nation's second-largest school district is being hailed as a landmark that could pave the way for changes in urban districts across the nation.

Despite fiery rhetoric, largest teachers union spending big for Dems (The Upshot) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 12:28 PM PDT The Upshot - Over the summer, the president of the nation's largest teachers union told thousands of members that Obama's education policies were "not the change I hoped for." "Today our members face the most anti-educator, anti-union, anti-student environment I have ever experienced," National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel said at group's annual convention in New Orleans, [...]

Egypt's education system needs an overhaul (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 06:39 AM PDT Reuters - Sawsan Gomaa, 18, thought memorizing vocabulary and grammar from the ministry textbook would be enough to ace Egypt's yearly national language exam for high school graduates, the main gateway to university.

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