2010年4月29日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Clark receives largest single gift in its history (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 05:09 PM PDT

AP - Clark University in Massachusetts has received the largest gift in its 123-year history, a $14.2 million offering from the late head of a company that ultimately grew into one of the nation's biggest property and casualty insurers.

Survivor: Machete attack preceded 3 NJ killings (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 02:23 PM PDT

Rodolfo Godinez watches the jury enter the courtroom during his trial at the Essex County Courthouse in Newark, Wednesday, April 28, 2010.  Godinez is charged with the murder of three young people in a Newark schoolyard. (AP Photo/John O'Boyle, Pool)AP - She had been sexually assaulted, slashed with a machete and shot in the head, but as the young woman clung to life she could think only of one thing: Where are my friends?


Judge: Brown U. rape-accusation suit can proceed (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 01:52 PM PDT

AP - A student who says he was falsely accused of rape by a Brown University classmate can move forward with his lawsuit against the Ivy League school, a federal judge ruled.

Teen convicted of murder in Mass. school stabbing (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 12:19 PM PDT

AP - A Massachusetts teenager was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing another student in what prosecutors described as a random attack at a suburban Boston high school.

Rosier Job Outlook for College Graduates (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 11:45 AM PDT

In this March 31, 2010 photo, Tania DeLeon, 20, right, an administration of justice major at Folsom Lake College, works with her supervisor Sarah Aldea in the Outreach department at her on-campus job in Folsom, Calif. DeLeon, who can't get into the classes she wants, must shuttle between two campuses 45 minutes apart and is spending spring break earning a paycheck so she can pay for gas and graduate on time. Grappling with record enrollments and plummeting state support, community colleges are grateful for the higher profile but disappointed that funding has yet to materialize to help them keep up with demand, let alone meet the Obama administration's goal to make the U.S. the global leader in college graduates again by 2020. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)U.S. News & World Report - The menacing clouds that have hung over the job market for recent college graduates are not parting completely, but a few rays of light are finally breaking through. For the first time in nearly two years, the hiring climate looks hospitable--if only slightly so--to new graduates, according to a report on the 2010 job outlook from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, or NACE. The report, based on a survey of 177 employers of various sizes nationwide, projects that 5.3 percent more new graduates will be hired this year than were last year. ...


Pa. 5th-grader's 'death list' left in library book (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 05:25 AM PDT

AP - School administrators say a Pennsylvania fifth-grader made a "death list" with a dozen names written on it and stuck it inside a library book.

Wyoming governor pushed to cancel Ayers' visit (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 01:13 PM PDT

Protesters opposed to William Ayers' visit to the University of Wyoming stand Wednesday, April 28, 2010, outisde the UniWyo Sports Complex in Laramie, Wyo. Security was heightened at the University of Wyoming as Ayers addressed a campus gathering, but only a handful of demonstrators showed up to protest the 1960s radical. (AP Photo/Laramie Boomerang, Robert Monteith)AP - Gov. Dave Freudenthal was among those who agreed with canceling a talk by 1960s radical William Ayers at the University of Wyoming earlier this month.


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