Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Ind. Democrats end boycott, return to Statehouse (AP)
• Obama says too much testing makes education boring (AP)
• Jury: Calif. teen guilty in school pipe bomb case (AP)
• Indiana Democrats end stand-off on union rights (Reuters)
• Ind. school shooting suspect appears in court (AP)
• Marijuana College: Oaksterdam Focuses on Higher Education (Time.com)
• 10 Most Popular Business Schools (U.S. News & World Report)

Ind. Democrats end boycott, return to Statehouse (AP) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:21 PM PDT AP - Indiana House Democrats who fled the state five weeks ago to protest a Republican agenda they considered an assault on labor unions and public education returned to the Statehouse on Monday and resumed work.

Obama says too much testing makes education boring (AP) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:03 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama said Monday that students should take fewer standardized tests and school performance should be measured in other ways than just exam results. Too much testing makes education boring for kids, he said.

Jury: Calif. teen guilty in school pipe bomb case (AP) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:10 PM PDT AP - A Northern California teenager accused of setting off two pipe bombs at his former high school in a plot to kill three former teachers who gave him bad grades has been found guilty of attempted murder and weapons charges.

Indiana Democrats end stand-off on union rights (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:11 PM PDT Reuters - Indiana lawmakers ended a five-week standoff on Monday as Democrats wrung compromises in Republican-sponsored bills they see as part of a national push to strip U.S. public sector unions of bargaining rights.

Ind. school shooting suspect appears in court (AP) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:06 PM PDT AP - Prosecutors want a 15-year-old boy tried in adult court for allegedly shooting another student twice outside their central Indiana middle school.

Marijuana College: Oaksterdam Focuses on Higher Education (Time.com) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:05 PM PDT Time.com - California's Oaksterdam University is America's first cannabis college, offering training for the lucrative medical-marijuana industry

10 Most Popular Business Schools (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:25 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - Business school goliaths like the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School may consistently dominate the U.S. News rankings, but other schools have quietly built programs that are in demand among applicants. One indicator of a school's popularity among students is its yield--the percentage of applicants accepted by a business school who ultimately decide to enroll in the program.

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