Yahoo! News: Education News

---

• Miss. school district sued over punishments (AP)
• News Corp. hires 2 leaders for education division (AP)
• Supreme Court: California Can Offer In-State College Tuition to Illegal Immigrants (Time.com)
• Idaho education firestorm sparks attempt at repeal (AP)
• Wells Fargo rolls out fixed-rate student loans (AP)
• Judge seals capital case against Ala professor (AP)
• Education Department says it doesn’t send SWAT teams after loan defaulters (The Lookout)
• Champion Kasparov puts chess at heart of learning (Reuters)
• Education According to Mike Milken (BusinessWeek)

Miss. school district sued over punishments (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2011 03:31 PM PDT AP - Civil rights advocates have filed suit against Jackson's public school district, claiming officials at one alternative school respond to minor violations by shackling children to railings and poles for hours at a time.

News Corp. hires 2 leaders for education division (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:52 PM PDT AP - News Corp. has hired two top deputies to join former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein at its education division.

Supreme Court: California Can Offer In-State College Tuition to Illegal Immigrants (Time.com) Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:25 PM PDT Time.com - In a win for immigrants rights groups, on Monday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a California law that grants in-state tuition for illegal immigrants

Idaho education firestorm sparks attempt at repeal (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2011 01:02 PM PDT AP - Idaho carried out a sweeping overhaul of its public school system this year and stood out nationally amid a rancorous debate over education around the country. But the man who orchestrated the changes quickly learned that his landmark victory came with a price.

Wells Fargo rolls out fixed-rate student loans (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:56 AM PDT AP - Wells Fargo is hoping to make its student loans more attractive to families.

Judge seals capital case against Ala professor (AP) Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:46 AM PDT AP - A judge has sealed all court records in the capital murder case against a former biology professor accused of killing three colleagues and wounding three others during a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, one of her lawyers said Wednesday.

Education Department says it doesn’t send SWAT teams after loan defaulters (The Lookout) Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:34 AM PDT The Lookout - A Stockton, Calif., man says a SWAT team broke his door and dragged him out of his house during an unexpected 6 a.m. raid targeting his estranged ex-wife. Kenneth Wright, who has no criminal record, told ABC News 10 he complained to the local cops about the raid. But according to Wright, the Stockton police [...]

Champion Kasparov puts chess at heart of learning (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:01 AM PDT Reuters - Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov sees a hole in the European education system and he knows how to fix it -- one pawn at a time.

Education According to Mike Milken (BusinessWeek) Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - Ten-year-old Asiko Aderin is wearing headphones and staring into a computer screen, looking very much like an underage call center employee. It's a weekday morning -- a school day -- and this is what school looks like for Asiko and her two brothers, Ayomiro, 11, and Ayodeji, 8. Holed up in the basement of their family's Poconos, Pa., home, they watch lessons on a screen, typing answers to questions as their mother, Sharon Aderin, a former U.S. Army Reserve sergeant, hovers nearby. The children attend Agora Cyber Charter School, managed by K12 , the largest U.S. ...

You are subscribed to email updates from Yahoo! News: Education News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610