Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Obama rolling back Bush-era education law (AP)
• Grading the GOP Candidates on Education (Time.com)
• Complaints prayer rally held at SC public school (AP)
• Number of new graduate students down for first time since 2003 (Reuters)
• Former professor pleads not guilty in Ala shooting (AP)
• Officials visit post-tornado Joplin 'mall school' (AP)
• Vermont schools seek normalcy post-Irene (AP)
• Muslim students' speech trial goes to US jury (AP)
• Million Moms Challenge Launches Educational Alternative to Farmville (Mashable)

Obama rolling back Bush-era education law (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 05:32 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration is offering states a way around provisions of the once-heralded No Child Left Behind law, contending many elements of the Bush-era education initiative have become barriers to learning and that too many schools, even those showing modest progress, risk being labeled as failing.

Grading the GOP Candidates on Education (Time.com) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 03:10 PM PDT Time.com - With President Obama teeing up the Congressional debate about how to reform No Child Left Behind, the GOP candidates can't avoid education forever. Here's a handicapper's guide to the leading contenders and their views -- and record -- on education

Complaints prayer rally held at SC public school (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:59 PM PDT AP - The video showed children waving arms rhythmically as a Christian rapper called B-SHOC performs on stage in a darkened gym. The rapper is seen joking earlier in the footage about how "too much fog" at a rehearsal for the same event triggered a school fire alarm. On the recording, B-SHOC openly muses whether firefighters might show up and whether they might be "churchgoers, Jesus lovers."

Number of new graduate students down for first time since 2003 (Reuters) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 02:40 PM PDT Reuters - New student enrollment at U.S. graduate schools fell in 2010 for the first time since the fall of 2003, according to a report released on Thursday.

Former professor pleads not guilty in Ala shooting (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:50 PM PDT AP - Pale, thin and dressed in a red jail uniform, a Harvard University-educated biology professor pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to capital murder charges Thursday in the slayings of three colleagues killed during a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Officials visit post-tornado Joplin 'mall school' (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:37 PM PDT AP - Students who attend the Joplin high school known as the "mall school," because it was built in a former big box store after a tornado left their district in ruins, told Education Secretary Arne Duncan during a Thursday visit that having the support of the school has helped them recover.

Vermont schools seek normalcy post-Irene (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 12:00 AM PDT AP - The floors are just bare concrete, but students are back in class at Moretown Elementary School after flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Irene forced it to hold classes outside under tents — including one cold, stormy day when students huddled under blankets and sipped cocoa during math.

Muslim students' speech trial goes to US jury (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 07:18 PM PDT AP - A jury has completed its first full day of deliberations in the trial of 10 Muslim students charged with disrupting a speech by an Israeli diplomat at the University of California, Irvine.

Million Moms Challenge Launches Educational Alternative to Farmville (Mashable) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:24 PM PDT Mashable - Wednesday at the Social Good Summit, ABC News correspondent Juju Chang announced a new Facebook game aimed at educating people about maternal health. The game, which is a piece of the larger Million Moms Challenge initiative launched earlier this week by ABC News and the UN Foundation, is called 1000 Days and guides players through a series of educational mini games that teach about things such as proper diet, breast feeding and government regulations. Throughout the game, users are presented with opportunities to connect with outside organizations in the maternal health space for additional information.

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