2011年1月6日星期四

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Police: Gunman suspended before school shooting (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 04:52 PM PST

An undated photo shows Millard South high school student Robert Butler Jr. Butler shot and wounded two adults, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, at the Millard South high school in Omaha, causing students to rush into a school kitchen to take cover before his body was found in a car about a mile away. (AP Photo/Courtesy photo via Lincoln Journal Star) EDITORIAL USE ONLY; MAGS OUT; NO SALES, TV OUT, OMAHA OUTAP - Hours before he opened fire on two principals at his high school, a Nebraska teenager calmly accepted a suspension for driving on an athletic field. He went home to speak with his father and some friends — all the while giving no hint of turning violent, police said Thursday.


11 Vt. students treated after carbon monoxide leak (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 10:51 AM PST

AP - A hospital official says 11 students and one staff member at a Vermont school have been hospitalized because of carbon monoxide poisoning, but all are expected to be released.

6 New Year's Resolutions That Could Lower Your College Tuition (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:39 AM PST

U.S. News & World Report - If one of your New Year's resolutions is to find more money for college, here are six steps you can take to reduce the financial pain of higher education:

Classes cancelled at Nebraska school after shooting (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 09:11 AM PST

Students react in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, outside the Millard South high school in Omaha, after a student  shot and wounded two adults and caused students to rush into a school kitchen to take cover before his body was found in a car about a mile away. (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)Reuters - Classes were canceled on Thursday at Millard South High where a suspended student shot and mortally wounded assistant principal Vicki Kaspar before fleeing and killing himself Wednesday.


Troubled RI school hits bumps on road to reform (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:19 AM PST

Students stand outside Central Falls High School, in Central Falls, R.I., moments after school was let out, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Central Falls High became Exhibit A in a national debate on education reform when the school board in February of 2010 authorized the firing of all the teachers.  (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - The teachers at Central Falls High School struck a deal to get their jobs back last year after the entire staff was fired in a radical, last-ditch attempt to raise student performance. But if the administrators thought the teachers would be grateful for a second chance, they were wrong.


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