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• 21 kids hurt when rig hits mayor-driven school bus (AP)
• Princeton students nix alternative hummus brand (AP)
• Rogue Websites Exploit Flaw to Track Your Web History (PC World)
• Report: More Government Involvement Needed in College Search Process (U.S. News & World Report)
• Executives, Policymakers Want More Technology in Classrooms (U.S. News & World Report)

21 kids hurt when rig hits mayor-driven school bus (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 04:21 PM PST AP - A tractor-trailer slammed into a school bus that had its lights flashing and stop signs extended, critically injuring three children and hurting the other 18 and both drivers, Louisiana State Police said Friday.

Princeton students nix alternative hummus brand (AP) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 01:04 PM PST AP - Princeton University students voted down a referendum by a pro-Palestine student group calling for the Ivy League university to expand its hummus offerings, the school's student government said Friday.

Rogue Websites Exploit Flaw to Track Your Web History (PC World) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 11:20 AM PST PC World - Be careful the next time you visit some of the Web's most popular porn, news, and torrent sites as they could be peeking at your browser history without your consent. Researchers at University of California, San Diego have discovered that 485 of the 50,000 most popular Websites in the world are exploiting a flaw that lets them read your browser's Web history.  The offending sites include YouPorn.com, Gamesfreak.com, Newsmax.com, and TwinCities.com, according to the researchers.

Report: More Government Involvement Needed in College Search Process (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 08:54 AM PST U.S. News & World Report - Prospective students and their parents need more and far better information--particularly about outcomes--in order to help them decide the best school to attend and the federal government should take the lead to distribute this information and mandate new data requirements. This conclusion is from a just released report, "Grading Higher Education Giving Consumers the Information They Need," by Harvard University professor Bridget Terry Long.

Executives, Policymakers Want More Technology in Classrooms (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 03 Dec 2010 08:24 AM PST U.S. News & World Report - No matter their overarching ideological differences, prominent CEOs, state politicians, and noteworthy political figures found common ground when they gathered in Washington this week to discuss the state of the nation's educational system at a summit held by the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a group founded by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

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