Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Peanut allergy issue stirs controversy at Florida school (Reuters)
• 10 Law Schools That Receive the Most Applications (U.S. News & World Report)
• Ivy League After Dark (The Daily Beast)
• No Child Left Behind: Can Obama Revamp the Education Law? (Time.com)
• The Tiger Mom's SAT Surprise (The Daily Beast)
• Obama's War on Schools (The Daily Beast)

Peanut allergy issue stirs controversy at Florida school (Reuters) Posted: 21 Mar 2011 04:31 PM PDT Reuters - Some public school parents in Edgewater, Florida, want a first-grade girl with life-threatening peanut allergies removed from the classroom and home-schooled, rather than deal with special rules to protect her health, a school official said.

10 Law Schools That Receive the Most Applications (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 21 Mar 2011 08:36 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - Applications to law schools rose in 2010, as more people turned to a legal education for a potential career path or a temporary buffer against the ongoing economic turmoil. Law schools received about 87,900 applications last year, up from 86,600 in 2009 and 83,400 in 2008, according to the Law School Admission Council, Inc.

Ivy League After Dark (The Daily Beast) Posted: 21 Mar 2011 08:03 AM PDT The Daily Beast - Spend Saturday night at Princeton, and you’ll see why women trail men on elite campuses. America’s top colleges attract students through their old traditions. So can young women finally crack the old-boys club?

No Child Left Behind: Can Obama Revamp the Education Law? (Time.com) Posted: 21 Mar 2011 03:00 AM PDT Time.com - Why George W. Bush's landmark and contentious education law is proving so hard to revamp

The Tiger Mom's SAT Surprise (The Daily Beast) Posted: 20 Mar 2011 08:43 PM PDT The Daily Beast - Amy Chua, known for her super-strict parenting and ban on sleepovers, comes out in favor of a new SAT question about reality TV—and not because she's a secret fan of Snooki. Plus, the college board chief defends the SAT question and why TV may not be so bad for kids after all.

Obama's War on Schools (The Daily Beast) Posted: 20 Mar 2011 07:44 PM PDT The Daily Beast - The No Child Left Behind Act has been deadly to public education. So why has the president embraced it? In this week’s Newsweek, Diane Ravitch delves deep into Obama’s education policy.

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