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• Judge: Public can't see Idaho prison settlement (AP)
• School outs gay teen; civil rights groups outraged (AP)
• Turnaround plan targets rural W.Va. schools (AP)
• UC Berkeley's Middle Class Bid; Ivy League Early Admits (The Atlantic Wire)
• George W. Bush Looks Forward After No Child Left Behind (Time.com)
• Report: half of schools fail federal standards (AP)
• Google Giving Targets Education, Tech and Anti-Slaveryvar NREUMQ=NREUMQ||[];NREUMQ.push(["mark","firstbyte",new Date().getTime()]); (Mashable)

Judge: Public can't see Idaho prison settlement (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST AP - A federal judge has refused to unseal a settlement agreement between an Idaho inmate and a private prison company involving allegations of rampant violence at a lockup near Boise known as "Gladiator School."

School outs gay teen; civil rights groups outraged (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:07 PM PST AP - Administrators at a Utah middle school outed a gay teenage boy to his parents because they feared he would be bullied, but the move has outraged civil rights groups that claim the student's privacy was violated.

Turnaround plan targets rural W.Va. schools (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:40 AM PST AP - A coalition that includes a Fortune 500 company, labor unions and nonprofit foundations outlined plans Thursday to spend the next five years focused on rescuing a rural West Virginia school district, one of the country's most downtrodden.

UC Berkeley's Middle Class Bid; Ivy League Early Admits (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:57 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - Today in academia: Berkeley's middle class bid, Ivy League admit numbers, Penn State's big donation, Riverside's protest rules, and Virginia Tech's parental notification policy.

George W. Bush Looks Forward After No Child Left Behind (Time.com) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:05 AM PST Time.com - George W. Bush is writing a sequel to his big education act

Report: half of schools fail federal standards (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:25 AM PST AP - Nearly half of America's public schools didn't meet federal achievement standards this year, marking the largest failure rate since the much-criticized No Child Left Behind Law took effect a decade ago, according to a national report released Thursday.

Google Giving Targets Education, Tech and Anti-Slaveryvar NREUMQ=NREUMQ||[];NREUMQ.push(["mark","firstbyte",new Date().getTime()]); (Mashable) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 06:01 AM PST Mashable - Google's charitable branch, Google.org, released a list Wednesday of its 2011 non-profit grant recipients, who received a combined $40 million. The list highlights the search giant's work promoting STEM and girls' education, empowering through technology, and fighting slavery and human trafficking.

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