2011年8月23日星期二

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Parents, ACLU sue NJ city over Facebook records (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:38 PM PDT

AP - The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state's biggest city for refusing to release records related to a $100 million gift pledged to its schools by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

70 Percent of College Students Have Forgone Textbooks Because of Price (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:36 PM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - Last week we reported that college tuition has increased at a faster rate than the prices of many other broad categories of goods and services Americans consume, including housing, healthcare, and energy. There are, of course, many other costs to attending college not in a school's sticker price--not the least of which is the cost of textbooks. Those, it turns out, ain't so cheap either.

Ohio jury hung on verdict in girl's '67 killing (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 11:11 AM PDT

AP - Jurors deadlocked Tuesday on a lone murder charge against a man accused of snatching a teen on her way home from school in 1967 and holding her captive in his basement before killing her and dumping her body in Michigan.

Morris Brown pays off debt to US government (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:24 AM PDT

AP - Morris Brown College has settled a nearly $10 million debt for pennies on the dollar with the U.S. Education Department.

School-lunch vote tests SKoreans on welfare state (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 08:03 AM PDT

Oh Se-hoon, left, mayor of South Korea's capital Seoul, shakes hands with his supporter during a campaign for free lunches for students in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The mayor of Seoul is asking voters to reject a free school lunch program in a referendum Wednesday Aug. 24, 2011 that has become a test of how far a resurgent South Korea should go in developing a welfare state. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)AP - Seoul's mayor is asking voters to reject free lunches for all elementary and middle school students in a referendum Wednesday that has become a test of how far a resurgent South Korea should go in developing a welfare state.


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