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• Sorry, Seniors: College Admission Rates Are Down This Year (Time.com)
• Jury asks for NJ school murder suspect's testimony (AP)
• New education push: 1 million volunteers to help struggling students (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Official: Kids gave 'flu shot' with found needle (AP)
• Cheating On The Hard Work of School Reform (Time.com)
• 1 dead in shootings at Houston school field (AP)

Sorry, Seniors: College Admission Rates Are Down This Year (Time.com) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:40 PM PDT Time.com - Student newspapers at various Ivy League schools are all reporting that as application rates have soared, admission rates have dropped

Jury asks for NJ school murder suspect's testimony (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:28 PM PDT AP - The first afternoon of jury deliberations has ended in the trial of a man charged with wielding a machete in the execution-style slayings of three friends in a New Jersey schoolyard.

New education push: 1 million volunteers to help struggling students (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 10:15 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Community organizers want you. Whether it’s helping out in a classroom, tutoring after school, or mentoring a teenage church group, they’re hoping to galvanize more on-the-ground service to bring up early reading skills and graduation rates.

Official: Kids gave 'flu shot' with found needle (AP) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:06 AM PDT AP - School officials in Massachusetts say two elementary school children were given medical attention after they played doctor with a hypodermic needle that one of them found on the street on his way to school.

Cheating On The Hard Work of School Reform (Time.com) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 11:50 PM PDT Time.com - A cheating scandal in D.C. -- not students cheating on tests, but adults cheating for them -- tells us that while we have many outstanding teachers and schools delivering powerful instruction, too many cannot

1 dead in shootings at Houston school field (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:00 PM PDT AP - One person was killed and five others were injured Wednesday in a shooting at a football field at a Houston high school that witnesses and police said appeared to be gang-related.

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