2011年1月28日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Education News


LA chief apologizes for dragnet in shooting hoax (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 04:55 PM PST

FILE - In this file photo taken Wednesday, Jan., 19, 2011, a group of police officers search the perimeter of El Camino Real High School in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles school police officer who said a man shot him near the  San Fernando Valley high school last week was arrested Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011,  on suspicion of filing a false police report. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said there was no gunman or outstanding suspect and Officer Jeffrey Stenroos was in custody. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - A school police officer who triggered a massive manhunt by saying he had been shot in his bulletproof vest was regarded as a pariah Friday by authorities who deemed the shooting a hoax.


Board member won't resign after pregnancy remark (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:00 PM PST

AP - A member of the Oklahoma state education board said Friday he would not resign amid criticism he was insensitive to a pregnant woman the panel hired to represent the state's 660,000 public school children at the Capitol.

Drive for education reform has teachers unions on the defensive (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 09:11 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Are teachers unions the reason America's schools are failing?

Make-up days planned after storms disrupt school (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 08:33 AM PST

While her brother Seamus Lavelle, 4, left, climbs up, Sinead Lavelle, 5, jumps down a snow hill created by multiple snowstorms and plows on their dead end street in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Snowfall up to 19 inches in some parts of the city closed public schools for the day.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - After a spate of snowstorms pounded the South and East, school officials are trying to cram in more classroom time to make up for all those snow days, while educators and parents worry that students could fall behind in preparing for mandatory state tests.


Bristol Palin won't appear on Mo. abstinence panel (AP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 12:15 AM PST

AP - Washington University in St. Louis says Bristol Palin won't be speaking there next month after all.

College tuition: Six in 10 freshmen say economy affected choice of school (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:26 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Getting into your dream college is one thing â€" paying for it is another. The economic downturn affected the choice of where to attend college for 6 out of 10 current freshmen at four-year schools, a new survey finds.
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