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• 2 teens injured in Colorado middle school shooting (AP)
• Files show Ala. suspect's husband wanted revenge (AP)
• School district faces lawsuit over Webcam spying claims (Macworld.com)
• Teacher contracts support reforms in worst schools (AP)
• Univision, feds team up to boost Hispanic ed (AP)

2 teens injured in Colorado middle school shooting (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:59 PM PST AP - A teacher tackled a man armed with a high-powered rifle just after he shot two teenage students Tuesday at a suburban Denver middle school that's just miles from Columbine High School, the site of one of the nation's deadliest school shootings, authorities said.

Files show Ala. suspect's husband wanted revenge (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:20 PM PST AP - The husband of the Alabama professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues once said he wanted violent revenge on a doctor who gave his wife a bad job review, according to documents that feed growing evidence the woman showed signs of violence long before the latest episode.

School district faces lawsuit over Webcam spying claims (Macworld.com) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:20 PM PST Macworld.com - The MacBook’s built-in iSight camera and microphone are awfully convenient for Skype phone calls and iChat video conferencing, but a more sinister potential use came to light this week with the allegation that a suburban Philadelphia school district used iSight cameras to spy on students at home. The FBI has launched an investigation to determine whether federal laws were broken.

Teacher contracts support reforms in worst schools (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:20 PM PST AP - Even in a school system known for its academic troubles, the numbers at Vaux High School are jaw-dropping: More than 90 percent of 11th-graders tested last year could not read or do math at grade level.

Univision, feds team up to boost Hispanic ed (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:59 AM PST AP - Univision has kicked off a multiyear, multimillion dollar campaign to boost academic achievement among Hispanics in the United States.

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