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• Kindergartner brings gun to Texas school, 3 hurt (AP)
• Mom says Ind. school shooting suspect was troubled (AP)
• Poll: Students grade high school down, college up (AP)
• How the poll was conducted (AP)

Kindergartner brings gun to Texas school, 3 hurt (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2011 05:26 PM PDT AP - A kindergartner who brought a loaded gun to his Houston elementary school Tuesday was among three students injured when the gun fired after falling from his pocket as he sat down for lunch, officials said.

Mom says Ind. school shooting suspect was troubled (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:27 AM PDT AP - The mother of a 15-year-old boy accused in a central Indiana school shooting says her drinking fueled her son's anger.

Poll: Students grade high school down, college up (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2011 07:52 AM PDT AP - Young adults say high schools are failing to give students a solid footing for the working world or strong guidance toward college, at a time when many fear graduation means tumbling into an economic black hole. Students who make it to college are happy with the education they get there, an Associated Press-Viacom poll says.

How the poll was conducted (AP) Posted: 19 Apr 2011 12:08 AM PDT AP - The Associated Press-Viacom Survey of Youth on Education by Stanford University was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from Feb. 18 to March 6. It is based on landline and cell phone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,104 adults between 18 and 24 years old. Interviews were conducted with 603 respondents on landline telephones and 501 on cellular phones.

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