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• US moves to head off states' revolt over No Child Left Behind (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Texas district cuts ties with ex-Atlanta official (AP)
• Comcast Will Offer Internet Access To Low-Income Families (NewsFactor)
• Relief ahead for states from No Child Left Behind law, but with strings (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Apple Offers a $999 iMac for Schools (Mashable)
• FIRST LOOK: Obama admin issues waivers for education law (The Lookout)

US moves to head off states' revolt over No Child Left Behind (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 09 Aug 2011 06:45 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - No Child Left Behind, or NCLB, is fast becoming a law that state education leaders wish they could leave behind. At least the part that says they have to keep raising the bar for reading and math performance â€" and then take action on the rapidly growing number of schools that miss the higher targets.

Texas district cuts ties with ex-Atlanta official (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 08:20 PM PDT AP - A Dallas-area school board voted Monday to sever ties with its new superintendent, who was caught in the fallout of a test-cheating scandal in her previous district in Atlanta.

Comcast Will Offer Internet Access To Low-Income Families (NewsFactor) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 02:26 PM PDT NewsFactor - Comcast is poised to launch a broadband program for low-income families called Internet Essentials that will provide qualifying households with low-cost Internet service. To qualify, however, households must have one or more children eligible to receive free lunches under the national school lunch program.

Relief ahead for states from No Child Left Behind law, but with strings (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 01:38 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - States are likely to get relief from some of No Child Left Behind’s most onerous requirements this fall, the Obama administration announced Monday.

Apple Offers a $999 iMac for Schools (Mashable) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 11:07 AM PDT Mashable - Apple quietly introduced a new 21.5-inch iMac specifically for educational institutions on Monday. The computer, first noticed by MacRumors, costs $999 -- about $200 less than the models available to the general public.

FIRST LOOK: Obama admin issues waivers for education law (The Lookout) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 05:40 AM PDT The Lookout - Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • The Obama administration will authorize the use of waivers to prevent states from failing under the No Child Left Behind education law. (Politico) • Eight people, including a child, were killed in Ohio in a shooting spree. (CNN) • Responding to scrutiny, the for-profit University of Phoenix [...]

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