2011年1月21日星期五

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


LA judge limits seniority-based teacher layoffs (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:32 PM PST

AP - A judge on Friday approved a sweeping overhaul of how teachers are laid off in what education reformers hail as a landmark decision to keep more effective instructors in the classroom, but unions denounce as a step toward dismantling tenure policies.

For-profit college group sues over regulations (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 01:32 PM PST

AP - A group representing for-profit colleges and trade schools filed a federal lawsuit Friday against the U.S. Department of Education seeking to block new regulations of the sector.

For-profit schools ask court to stop new rules (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 01:26 PM PST

Reuters - A group of for-profit schools sued the U.S. government on Friday, seeking to overturn three rules that are part of a federal crackdown on the sector.

BYU Once Again Nation's Most Popular University (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 09:02 AM PST

U.S. News & World Report - For the second year in a row, Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah is the most popular national university in America among applicants, according to an analysis of yield (the percentage of students accepted to a school who opt to attend) by U.S.News & World Report. BYU dropped four spots to 75th in U.S. News's 2011 rankings of national universities, which are research-oriented institutions that offer degrees of all levels. That did not deter admitted students from choosing the school--76.9 percent of accepted students enrolled in fall 2009.

California Universities Feel the Squeeze (BusinessWeek)

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 05:08 AM PST

BusinessWeek - California's role as the incubator of talent that powers Silicon Valley and Hollywood owes much to a university system that has produced 56 Nobel Prize winners. Now, as Governor Jerry Brown tackles a crippling deficit, his plan to slash higher education spending by 16 percent is raising concerns that the state may be jeopardizing the future of its high-tech and entertainment industries -- and by extension the country's growth.

Charter schools expand with public, private money (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 03:05 AM PST

In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010, Young students work on their writing skills in a kindergarten class at Berkeley Maynard Academy in Oakland, Calif. Despite a painful economic downturn, the charter school movement is expanding rapidly across the country with support from the Obama administration, wealthy donors such as Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey, and the highly publicized documentary 'Waiting for Superman.' (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - As cash-strapped school districts lay off teachers and close campuses, publicly funded charter schools are flourishing and altering the landscape of public education.


Reward offered for arrest of LA gunman (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 07:11 PM PST

Ramon Cortines, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District speaks to media outside El Camino Real High School, the site of a shooting of a school police officer  Wednesday, in Los Angeles Thursday Jan. 20, 2011. Nine schools that were locked down after a school police officer was shot near El Camino Real school reopened Thursday under heavy security, a district official said. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)AP - A man who shot and wounded a school police officer remained at large Thursday, more than a day after police launched a massive dragnet in a search for the suspect, but the police chief said investigators had made progress, with the recovery of some forensic evidence.


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