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• Ohio man charged in school terror drill threat (AP)
• Calif. Muslim students arraigned for disruption (AP)
• Los Angeles school briefly "locked down" for manhunt (Reuters)
• Yale creates committee to combat sexual misconduct (AP)
• Chinese Lessons for the U.S. (BusinessWeek)

Ohio man charged in school terror drill threat (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:45 PM PDT AP - Authorities have accused an Ohio man of threatening terrorism by leaving an expletive-laden message on an Iowa high school's answering machine to force the cancellation of an emergency training drill, authorities said Friday.

Calif. Muslim students arraigned for disruption (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 03:40 PM PDT AP - Eleven Muslim students pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges stemming from the disruption of a speech by the Israeli ambassador to the United States at a California university.

Los Angeles school briefly "locked down" for manhunt (Reuters) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 02:12 PM PDT Reuters - An elementary school was locked down on Friday for about two hours as police looked for a murder suspect in the area, but he was arrested without incident, police and school officials said.

Yale creates committee to combat sexual misconduct (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 11:25 AM PDT AP - Yale University has created a committee to get advice on how to more effectively combat sexual misconduct as federal officials investigate a complaint by students that the Ivy League university failed to adequately respond to such concerns.

Chinese Lessons for the U.S. (BusinessWeek) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - The recipe sounds familiar: merit pay for teachers, rigorous testing, national academic standards. Is it a school turnaround effort in New York City, New Orleans, or Los Angeles? No, it's happening in Shanghai.

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