2011年2月17日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Education News

1 student killed, 3 hurt in Texas school SUV crash (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:12 PM PST

AP - An SUV driven by a teacher and full of high school students travelling to a Future Farmers of American event veered off a rural East Texas road Thursday and rolled several times, ejecting a 15-year-old girl who died at the scene and leaving three others injured.

White House aims to revamp education law by summer (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 05:06 PM PST

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivers his closing address at the Education Summit in Denver on on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/ Ed Andrieski)AP - The Obama administration set a goal Thursday of revamping the federal No Child Left Behind education law before students start the next school year in the fall, a timeframe likely to clash with the priorities of congressional Republicans.

UC Davis removes Web wording that upset Christians (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 04:32 PM PST

AP - The University of California at Davis has eliminated from its website a definition of religious discrimination that offended more than two dozen Christian students.

Kan. parents seek permission to raise school taxes (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 03:08 PM PST

AP - Parents in a suburban Kansas City school district where some homes cost $1 million or more have done as much as they can to raise money for their children's schools, including holding country club fundraisers to pay for elementary Spanish programs, counselors and nurses.

Fla. agency under fire for death in toxic truck (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 02:09 PM PST

A truck, covered by police, is parked on the side of I-95 near West Palm Beach, Fla. Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, after officials discovered it was filled with chemicals and a body. A 10-year-old girl whose badly deteriorated body was discovered in her father's pesticide truck is the twin of a boy discovered hours earlier in the vehicle, critically injured after being doused in acid by his father, an official said Wednesday. The pickup truck was found Monday along the side of Interstate 95. But because of the toxic fumes, the girl's body wasn't located until hours later, wrapped in plastic bags, wedged between chemical containers in the pickup truck's bed, according to the official familiar with the children's case. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)AP - For four days, Florida child welfare investigators searched for missing 10-year-old twins. They made home and school visits, called the children's father on his cell phone, talked to their mother and contacted relatives.

The Dangers of Avoiding Credit (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 17 Feb 2011 08:42 AM PST

U.S. News & World Report - My 25-year-old coworker thought she had done everything right when it came to protecting her credit. She paid off her student loans early. When she does use a credit card, she pays it off in full each month. And she's never been late on a monthly bill. Her credit score was over 750, which is considered excellent.

Here's an idea: Teachers and school officials unite on education reform (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 02:44 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Can school teachers and administrators be friends? Secretary of Education Arne Duncan hopes more of them will be, and this week he has helped to trumpet a handful of success stories of labor-management collaboration in a bid to lessen the acrimony that can stifle education reform efforts.

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