2011年4月1日星期五

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


No verdict in NJ man's schoolyard murder trial (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 03:49 PM PDT

Alexander Alfaro testifies during his trial at the Essex County Courthouse in Newark, N.J., Monday, March 28, 2011. Alfaro is charged in the  Aug. 4, 2007 killing of three college-bound-bound students behind the Mount Vernon School in Newark. In the background is a photo of his half-brother Rodolfo Godinez who is also charged in the murders. (AP Photo/John O'Boyle, Pool)AP - Jurors reheard testimony Friday from the survivor of a shooting that left three college students dead in 2007, but they finished their first full day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the trial of one of six people charged with the vicious schoolyard attack.


Feds investigate sex misconduct complaints at Yale (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 02:52 PM PDT

AP - Federal civil rights officials are investigating complaints by Yale University students that the Ivy League university has a sexually hostile environment and has failed to adequately respond to sexual harassment concerns.

Massachusetts finds expired food in school cafeterias (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 02:06 PM PDT

Reuters - Out-of-date food has been found lingering in public school cafeterias across Massachusetts, sent from warehouses up to six weeks past "use by" dates, the state department of education said on Friday.

Sorry, Seniors: College Admission Rates Are Down This Year (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 09:00 AM PDT

Time.com - Student newspapers at various Ivy League schools are all reporting that as application rates have soared, admission rates have dropped

Make the Most of College Admissions Counseling (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 07:26 AM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - With hundreds of students, funding cuts, and a multi-functional job, high school guidance counselors aren't able to spend much time counseling students about college.

Pittsburgh girl, 5, wanders home from school (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 07:01 AM PDT

AP - Pittsburgh Public Schools officials plan to install alarms on all doors of an early learning school where a 5-year-old girl sneaked away and walked several blocks to her home.

Oklahoma plan would make it easier to fire teachers (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 08:23 PM PDT

Reuters - An education reform bill that makes it easier for school boards to fire poor performing teachers was approved on Thursday by the Oklahoma state Senate.
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