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• Correction: Education-Outdoor Orientation (AP)
• Calif. Muslim students guilty of disrupting speech (AP)
• Obama lets states opt out of federal school rules (AP)
• Obama to loosen education law, cites flaws (Reuters)
• Does waiver plan end No Child Left Behind era? (The Lookout)
• Number of new graduate students drops: report (Reuters)
• Grading the GOP Candidates on Education (Time.com)
• Former professor pleads not guilty in Ala shooting (AP)
• Republicans say education department should go (AP)

Correction: Education-Outdoor Orientation (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:05 PM PDT AP - In a Sept. 17 story about college outdoor orientation programs, The Associated Press erroneously reported the percentage difference in retention rates for students who participate in such a program at West Virginia University and those who don't. The 87 percent retention rate for participants was 7 percentage points higher than the rate among nonparticipants, not 10 percentage points higher.

Calif. Muslim students guilty of disrupting speech (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:39 PM PDT AP - A jury on Friday convicted 10 Muslim students of disrupting a talk by the Israeli ambassador on a university campus in a case that has stoked an intense debate about free speech.

Obama lets states opt out of federal school rules (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 12:52 PM PDT AP - Nearly everyone agrees the fix needs fixing. The No Child Left Behind law that was supposed to improve American education has left schools grumbling at being labeled "failures," state officials fuming and complaints everywhere about required testing.

Obama to loosen education law, cites flaws (Reuters) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 12:06 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama on Friday announced steps to roll back key provisions of "No Child Left Behind," calling the decade-old U.S. education law admirable but flawed.

Does waiver plan end No Child Left Behind era? (The Lookout) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 10:25 AM PDT The Lookout - President Obama announced Friday that he will grant waivers to states struggling to meet the high standardized test scores required under the No Child Left Behind education law. At least 20 states are expected to request the waivers next year. The White House says it will only grant those requests if the petitioning states agree [...]

Number of new graduate students drops: report (Reuters) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 07:40 AM PDT Reuters - New student enrollment at U.S. graduate schools fell in 2010 for the first time since the autumn of 2003, according to a new report.

Grading the GOP Candidates on Education (Time.com) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 10:35 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

Former professor pleads not guilty in Ala shooting (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:05 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.

Republicans say education department should go (AP) Posted: 22 Sep 2011 07:07 PM PDT AP - The Republican presidential contenders say vast parts of the Department of Education would be on the chopping block — if not completely shut down.

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