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• Kansas schools try separate lunches for sexes (Reuters)
• 82 percent of US schools may be labeled 'failing' (AP)
• Judge recuses self in Brown University rape suit (AP)
• Q&A: Author Andrew Ferguson on College Admissions, Anxiety (Time.com)
• 5 Ways To Integrate Technology Into Your Child's Education (Mashable)
• Rude awakening for sleepy U.S. students (Reuters)
• New Platform Uses Social Features To Improve Online Education (Mashable)
• Memphis voters OK city schools merger with county (AP)

Kansas schools try separate lunches for sexes (Reuters) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 05:09 PM PST Reuters - Middle school lunch periods can be a free-for-all of teasing, rough-housing and flirting among boys and girls trying to impress or intimidate.

82 percent of US schools may be labeled 'failing' (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:29 PM PST AP - The number of schools labeled as "failing" under the nation's No Child Left Behind Act could skyrocket dramatically this year, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Wednesday.

Judge recuses self in Brown University rape suit (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:32 PM PST AP - A federal judge in Rhode Island recused himself Wednesday from a lawsuit brought by a former Brown University student who says he was falsely accused of raping a classmate and unfairly pressured to leave school, a move likely to send the case to a judge in New Hampshire.

Q&A: Author Andrew Ferguson on College Admissions, Anxiety (Time.com) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 12:20 PM PST Time.com - Andrew Ferguson, author of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College spoke about parental anxiety and the much dreaded college-application essay

5 Ways To Integrate Technology Into Your Child's Education (Mashable) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:43 AM PST Mashable - Jeff Galinovsky is regional manager for Intel’s classmate PC in North America where he focuses on expanding education products as well as building an education ecosystem. You can follow him on Twitter at @ClassmatePCDude.

Rude awakening for sleepy U.S. students (Reuters) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 07:51 AM PST Reuters - Chronically tardy and truant students at a Massachusetts high school are getting a rude awakening -- a pre-recorded morning wake-up call from their school principal.

New Platform Uses Social Features To Improve Online Education (Mashable) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:33 AM PST Mashable - Buried within platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia lies valuable educational content that can reinforce classroom lessons, help self-motivated learners teach themselves new concepts, and upend the way that the world looks at education. But it's hard to separate this content from the cat videos, ads and uninformed contributions that share the same platforms.

Memphis voters OK city schools merger with county (AP) Posted: 08 Mar 2011 08:12 PM PST AP - City voters chose Tuesday to dissolve the Memphis school system and force the county — whose students are accustomed to much more success in the wealthier suburbs — to take over its education.

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