2010年10月11日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Workers hailed for halting school shooting suspect (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 04:12 PM PDT

A parent of Kelly Elementary School students pulls a wagon with tissues as they arrive to school Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, in Carlsbad, Calif. The San Diego-area elementary school, where a man fired at children on a crowded playground and injured two girls, will reopen Monday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Children returning Monday to an elementary school where a gunman wounded two girls on a playground cheered and hugged construction workers who police said knocked down the shooter as he struggled to reload his gun.

Woman acquitted in Winfrey SAfrica school scandal (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 01:44 PM PDT

File - U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey, center, with learners, during an opening ceremony of her Leadership Academy for Girls School at Henley-on-Klip, South Africa, in this Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007 file photo. A woman accused of abusing teenagers at Oprah Winfrey's school for girls in South Africa was acquitted of the charges Monday, and Winfrey said she was 'profoundly disappointed' by the trial's outcome. Prosecutors had accused Tiny Virginia Makopo of trying to kiss and fondle girls at the school soon after it opened in 2007 outside Johannesburg. Mthunzi Mhaga, a spokesman for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority, said Monday Oct. 11, 2010 that Makopo had been acquitted of the charges. (AP Photo / Denis Farrell)AP - A woman accused of abusing teenagers at Oprah Winfrey's school for girls in South Africa was acquitted of the charges Monday, and Winfrey said she was "profoundly disappointed" by the trial's outcome.

South Africa clears employee at Oprah school of sex charges (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 11:17 AM PDT

Reuters - A South African court on Monday found a former employee of a school founded by U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey not guilty of sexually assaulting students, a prosecutor's office spokesman said.

Gates Foundation Launches $20M Grant for Online Ed (PC Magazine)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 10:33 AM PDT

PC Magazine - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Monday announced a $20 million grant program to improve college graduation rates via technology, which will probably be oriented around online learning programs.

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