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• Ohio teens admit guilt in teen's hair afire on bus (AP)
• 1 teen in Mass. bullying case still faces trial (AP)
• Apple co-founder Wozniak: computers can teach kids (Reuters)
• Students in hard-hit Ala. county return to school (AP)
• For-profit education rule heads for final U.S. review (Reuters)
• Pa. school to 5th-grader: No face paint over Osama (AP)
• Rich idea in Beverly Hills: $1M schools fundraiser (AP)
• Review: Author tells of reading Jane Austen (AP)

Ohio teens admit guilt in teen's hair afire on bus (AP) Posted: 03 May 2011 04:49 PM PDT AP - Three teenage boys have pleaded guilty to charges after a classmate's hair was set on fire on a school bus in southwest Ohio.

1 teen in Mass. bullying case still faces trial (AP) Posted: 03 May 2011 02:31 PM PDT AP - When six teenagers were charged after a girl's suicide, prosecutors said she killed herself following a months-long bullying campaign by five of them.

Apple co-founder Wozniak: computers can teach kids (Reuters) Posted: 03 May 2011 02:25 PM PDT Reuters - Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak has an idea that could help fix the U.S. public education system: computers, of course.

Students in hard-hit Ala. county return to school (AP) Posted: 03 May 2011 01:53 PM PDT AP - The roads leading to Pleasant Grove Middle School are lined with toppled trees. National Guard trucks are idled in the parking lot, and tables of bottled water and food rest on the concrete nearby, unmistakable reminders of the devastation wrought by the tornadoes.

For-profit education rule heads for final U.S. review (Reuters) Posted: 03 May 2011 11:13 AM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Education Department has sent the final version of a controversial rule aimed at reining in low-quality trade schools and colleges to the White House budget office for review, an agency spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

Pa. school to 5th-grader: No face paint over Osama (AP) Posted: 03 May 2011 09:37 AM PDT AP - A Pennsylvania woman took her fifth-grade son out of school for the day after administrators decided his face paint marking the death of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was too disruptive for class.

Rich idea in Beverly Hills: $1M schools fundraiser (AP) Posted: 03 May 2011 06:11 AM PDT AP - Beverly Hills is holding a fundraiser this week for the upscale California city's 4,700-student school district, but it's not your typical bake sale. The goal of this one? Raise $1 million.

Review: Author tells of reading Jane Austen (AP) Posted: 03 May 2011 05:09 AM PDT AP - "A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter" (Penguin), by William Deresiewicz: There's nothing quite like meeting another admirer of your favorite author, finding in that person a similar vigor for the close reading of that author's works, and sharing the memories you have of what it was like when you first encountered them.

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