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• APNewsBreak: Nearly 1 in 4 fails military exam (AP)
• Feds eye CA district's handling of bullying claim (AP)
• Man gets nearly 20 years in Haiti sex abuse case (AP)
• Kaplan sued over alleged job discrimination (AP)
• Yale gets $50M gift for management school (AP)
• She went to New Orleans to clean up after Hurricane Katrina – and stayed to start a charter school (The Christian Science Monitor)

APNewsBreak: Nearly 1 in 4 fails military exam (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:49 PM PST AP - Nearly one-fourth of the students who try to join the U.S. Army fail its entrance exam, painting a grim picture of an education system that produces graduates who can't answer basic math, science and reading questions, according to a new study released Tuesday.

Feds eye CA district's handling of bullying claim (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:40 PM PST AP - Federal education officials are investigating a school district in a Central California town where a 13-year-old boy committed suicide after allegedly being harassed by classmates because he was gay, a spokesman for Education Secretary Arne Duncan confirmed Tuesday.

Man gets nearly 20 years in Haiti sex abuse case (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:49 PM PST AP - A Colorado man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison Tuesday for sexually abusing children for more than a decade at a school he founded in Haiti, including some who faced him in the courtroom and testified that he threatened to put them back on the streets if they did not submit to his advances.

Kaplan sued over alleged job discrimination (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:39 PM PST AP - Federal authorities on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Kaplan Higher Education Corp. for allegedly discriminating against black job applicants by screening the credit history of potential employees.

Yale gets $50M gift for management school (AP) Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:09 AM PST AP - A member of Yale University's Class of 1964 has given a $50 million gift to the Ivy League school toward the construction of a new building at the School of Management.

She went to New Orleans to clean up after Hurricane Katrina – and stayed to start a charter school (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 20 Dec 2010 08:27 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The aftermath of hurricane Katrina has resulted in what locals here call a "brain gain": Educated and passionate young people are settling in New Orleans to play a role in its rebirth.

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