2010年8月12日星期四

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Refugees prepare for next challenge: School in US (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 09:38 AM PDT

In this Aug. 3, 2010 photo, Bushra Naji, far left, a parent volunteer at the Refugee Youth Academy, monitors students as they wait to attend an art class at the academy in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Refugee Youth Academy is a six-week program run by the International Rescue Committee that tries to help refugee parents like Naji, who was a teacher in Iraq, get familiar with what American school is all about. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - For their first fire drill, students at the Refugee Youth Summer Academy trooped out of the building behind their teachers. All that was missing were the sirens.


U.S. to release for-profit school debt data Friday (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 08:39 AM PDT

Reuters - The government plans to release student loan repayment rates for for-profit schools on Friday, identifying institutions by name, as part of efforts to tighten scrutiny of federal student aid.

School bullying summit's big hope: an anti-bullying tipping point (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 03:55 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In the wake of several high-profile bullying incidents, the Department of Education is hosting the first federal school bullying summit Wednesday and Thursday.
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