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• NYC schools chancellor quits after 3 months on job (AP)
• NJ Gov. Christie calls for peer teacher evaluation (AP)
• New Jersey governor says urban schools lack "hope" (Reuters)
• Bloomberg's embattled New York schools chief quits (Reuters)
• Consumers borrow more for student loans, new cars (AP)
• Colleges Bring Campuses to Facebook (U.S. News & World Report)
• South Africa worries over rising teen pregnancy (AFP)
• Yale forms committee to address sexual misconduct (AP)
• 2 NJ chaperones charged with student sex on trip (AP)
• Did Amy Chua's Daughter Really Need a Tiger Mom to Get Into Harvard? (Time.com)

NYC schools chancellor quits after 3 months on job (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:41 PM PDT AP - The city's embattled schools chancellor resigned Thursday after three contentious months on the job, the latest in a series of third-term setbacks for Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a defeat of his bid to hire a business-minded outsider like himself for a top job.

NJ Gov. Christie calls for peer teacher evaluation (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:14 PM PDT AP - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday called for public school teachers to be evaluated based equally on their classroom performance and student achievement and accused the state's largest teachers union of being a group of "bullies and thugs."

New Jersey governor says urban schools lack "hope" (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:44 PM PDT Reuters - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie outlined a plan to improve inner-city schools on Thursday, saying it required a Republican leader to fix a system dogged by failure.

Bloomberg's embattled New York schools chief quits (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:37 PM PDT Reuters - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's embattled education chief has resigned just three months after taking the job, dealing him another political setback as his approval ratings fall in his third term.

Consumers borrow more for student loans, new cars (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:48 PM PDT AP - U.S. consumers borrowed more money in February to buy new cars and attend school, but they cut back on using their credit cards to make purchases.

Colleges Bring Campuses to Facebook (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:36 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - Times have changed in college admissions. Gone are the days when a prospective student could be targeted, contacted, and recruited all with a single pamphlet in the mail. High schoolers can now learn a wealth of information about a university just by logging onto Facebook and peering into conversations taking place.

South Africa worries over rising teen pregnancy (AFP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:04 AM PDT AFP - A puffy-faced teenage girl strikes a lonely figure as she walks home from school, her short uniform skirt loosened on the side to make room for her growing baby bump.

Yale forms committee to address sexual misconduct (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 07:38 AM PDT AP - Yale University has created a committee to address allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct. The announcement comes as federal officials investigate a complaint by students that the Ivy League university failed to adequately respond to such concerns.

2 NJ chaperones charged with student sex on trip (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 06:47 AM PDT AP - Two Roman Catholic school workers from New Jersey have pleaded not guilty to charges of having sex with female students during a high school's class trip to Germany.

Did Amy Chua's Daughter Really Need a Tiger Mom to Get Into Harvard? (Time.com) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:40 AM PDT Time.com - Now that her eldest cub is bound for the Ivy League, the Tiger Mom has been tamed

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