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- Analysis: Retailers see tablets hitting classrooms soon (Reuters)
- Report: Texas charter school network awarded most contracts to Turkish-owned businesses (The Lookout)
- 2nd grader brings inert grenade to Michigan school (AP)
- Afghanistan-bound Marines learn farming practices (AP)
- NC lawmaker's 3rd grader sends him protest letter (AP)
| Analysis: Retailers see tablets hitting classrooms soon (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jun 2011 12:14 PM PDT Reuters - For Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke who grew up in rural Georgia, back-to-school season meant a new pair of jeans, and if he was lucky, a couple of shirts too. |
| Posted: 07 Jun 2011 11:06 AM PDT The Lookout - A rapidly expanding charter school movement in Texas that educates 16,000 kids awards almost all of its pricey contracting jobs to Turkish-owned businesses, The New York Times reports. The 33 Harmony schools--which emphasize math and science--receive $100 million in taxpayer funds each year, and are intertwined with followers of the moderate Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen. The [...] |
| 2nd grader brings inert grenade to Michigan school (AP) Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:42 AM PDT AP - Authorities say a second grader brought an inert U.S. military grenade to a central Michigan elementary school for show-and-tell, prompting a lockdown. |
| Afghanistan-bound Marines learn farming practices (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT
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| NC lawmaker's 3rd grader sends him protest letter (AP) Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:15 PM PDT AP - A North Carolina lawmaker doesn't think it was right for his daughter and her third-grade class to write to him and other elected officials protesting possible cuts in state education spending. |
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