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Los Angeles Times wins APME First Amendment award (AP)
Officials: Plane crashed 1 foot from Utah school (AP)
Could declining SAT scores actually be good news? (The Lookout)
Brown University president stepping down (AP)
DC students to be tested on sex education, drugs (AP)

Los Angeles Times wins APME First Amendment award (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 05:22 PM PDT

AP - The Los Angeles Times won the Associated Press Media Editors First Amendment Sweepstakes Award on Thursday for "Grading the Teachers," a groundbreaking analysis of public school test scores that showed good teachers make a measurable difference in the classroom but often go unrecognized and unrewarded.

Officials: Plane crashed 1 foot from Utah school (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:50 PM PDT

AP - Officials say a small plane went down just one foot from the side of an elementary school building in Utah.

Could declining SAT scores actually be good news? (The Lookout)

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:16 AM PDT

The Lookout - American high school students turned out the worst SAT reading scores on record last school year, while math and writing scores also dropped slightly compared to the previous year. The class of 2011's combined average score was 1500, six points below last year's. But both the College Board and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are taking [...]

Brown University president stepping down (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:00 AM PDT

AP - The first African-American woman to lead an Ivy League university is stepping down.

DC students to be tested on sex education, drugs (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 04:56 AM PDT

AP - District of Columbia public schools are planning to test students on their knowledge of human sexuality, contraception and drug use this spring.