2011年8月1日星期一

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Student survey calls Ohio U top party school in US (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 02:57 PM PDT

In this June 12, 2006 file photo, a gate with a historic marker is shown on the Ohio University campus in Athens, Ohio. Ohio University, set in an Appalachian town known for its rowdy Halloween bashes, has been named the nation's No. 1 party school, pushing the University of Georgia down a slot in the 2011 Princeton Review survey released Monday, Aug. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)AP - Ohio University, set in an Appalachian town known for its rowdy Halloween bashes, has been named the nation's No. 1 party school, pushing the University of Georgia down a slot in the 2011 Princeton Review survey released Monday.


Ala. immigration law won't keep kids out of school (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 02:03 PM PDT

AP - Officials say the state's tough new immigration law won't prevent any child — including illegal immigrants — from enrolling in Alabama's public schools.

Poll shows changing teaching force more receptive to education reform ideas (The Lookout)

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 01:36 PM PDT

The Lookout - An increased share of the American teaching force supports paying teachers based on their performance, evaluating teachers on how their students score on tests and other tenets of the education reform movement that teachers' unions have historically and often fiercely opposed, according to a new poll by the National Center for Education Information. Fifty-nine percent of [...]

Report: LSU curbed levee critic's academic freedom (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 12:05 PM PDT

AP - Louisiana State University violated the academic freedom of a professor who was fired for publicly criticizing the construction of the New Orleans levees after Hurricane Katrina, a higher education group said in a report Monday.

Top party, sober schools from Princeton Review (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 09:55 AM PDT

AP - The nation's top party schools and top stone-cold sober schools, according to Princeton Review's survey of 122,000 students:
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