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• Teen gets prison time for planned Columbine-style attack (Reuters)
• New York City schools to make sex education mandatory (Reuters)
• Ex-schools chief 'deeply' regrets Atlanta cheating (AP)
• NYC to mandate sex education in public schools (AP)
• How Students Use Technology [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)

Teen gets prison time for planned Columbine-style attack (Reuters) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 04:14 PM PDT Reuters - A 15-year-old in South Carolina was sentenced on Wednesday to serve six years in prison for charges connected to a Columbine-style attack authorities said he had intended to carry out at his school.

New York City schools to make sex education mandatory (Reuters) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 12:15 PM PDT Reuters - New York City public schools will teach mandatory sex education classes to all middle- and high school students, part of a citywide initiative to help minority students who are most likely to have unplanned pregnancies, officials said on Wednesday.

Ex-schools chief 'deeply' regrets Atlanta cheating (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:34 AM PDT AP - Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall says she "deeply" regrets not doing more to prevent cheating during her nearly 12 years in charge of the district.

NYC to mandate sex education in public schools (AP) Posted: 10 Aug 2011 05:10 AM PDT AP - Mandatory sex-education classes are returning to New York City public schools for the first time in nearly two decades.

How Students Use Technology [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable) Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:38 PM PDT Mashable - It's clear that today's students rely heavily on electronic devices even when they're not incorporated in the classroom. In one survey of college students, 38% said they couldn't even go 10 minutes without switching on some sort of electronic device. But how students are using their devices, how technology is affecting their educational experience, and what effect it has on their well-being are questions that are harder to answer. In the infographic below, online higher education database Onlineeducation.net has summed up some of the existing research on these points.

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