2010年3月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Kansas City, Mo., school board to vote on closures (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:02 PM PST

In this photo taken Feb. 28, 2010, the Kansas City Board of Education building, located near the Sprint Center, is seen from McGee Street, in Kansas City, Mo. Sale of the building would help as the board tries to cut $50 million from next years budget. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP - Parents, students and community leaders were making one last bid Wednesday night to persuade Kansas City school board members not to close nearly half the district's schools in an effort to avoid bankruptcy.

Math and English classes could be standardized (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:22 PM PST

In this Friday, Feb. 12, 2010 photo, first grader Victoria Bernade copies a sentence as teacher Lori Peck goes over sentence structure during class at Grace L. Patterson Elementary school in Vallejo, Calif. The nation's public schools are falling under severe financial stress as states slash education spending and drain federal stimulus money that staved off deep classroom cuts and widespread job losses. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide.

Ex-Texas school worker pleads guilty to abuse (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:21 PM PST

AP - A former employee of Texas state facility for the developmentally disabled accused of sanctioning fights among residents has pleaded guilty midway through his Corpus Christi trial.

3Com gets 3-year networking contract (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 11:07 AM PST

AP - Computer networking systems maker 3Com Corp. said Wednesday that it received a three-year contract with the Department of Education and Training in Australia's Northern Territory to supply schools.

Report: States team up on new academic standards (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 12:13 AM PST

AP - Governors and state education leaders are proposing a new set of standards to define what should be taught in the nation's public schools, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Texas ed board set to take 1st vote since primary (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 12:13 AM PST

In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Don McLeroy, former Texas State Board of Education chairman, talks with new Chairwoman Gail Lowe during a break in a meeting of the board where hearings on a new social studies curriculum were taking place. On Wednesdsay, March 10, 2010, McLeroy, a devout Christian conservative, will be attending his first board meeting as a lame duck, where the board is set to take their first vote on new social studies curriculum standards. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)AP - Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.

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