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• Boy in NYC shopping cart case had 6 suspensions (AP)
• Urban school students do better in reading, math (AP)
• Virginia Tech parents testify against school (AP)
• An Inside View of the Brinkley-Young Exchange (ContributorNetwork)
• Conn. tech school task force seeks public comments (AP)
• 'Mythbusters' Accidentally Shot a Cannonball Into Someone's Home (The Atlantic Wire)
• Number of students attending charter schools soars (AP)

Boy in NYC shopping cart case had 6 suspensions (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:35 PM PST AP - A 12-year-old boy accused of pushing a shopping cart onto a woman from four stories up had racked up a half-dozen school suspensions, some for fighting and stealing, during a childhood in which he was sometimes kept home from school to help with housework, a judge said Wednesday.

Urban school students do better in reading, math (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2011 03:01 PM PST AP - Students in urban schools are doing better in reading and math, even in Atlanta, which has been embroiled in a cheating scandal on state exams.

Virginia Tech parents testify against school (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2011 01:46 PM PST AP - Sometimes pushing back tears, the parents of victims in the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting testified Wednesday that they believe their children would have stayed in a safe place far away from where they were later shot if they'd had more information from the university about a safety threat on campus.

An Inside View of the Brinkley-Young Exchange (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 07 Dec 2011 09:42 AM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | In perhaps the latest display of popular disapproval of government, historian and Rice University Professor of History Douglas Brinkley got into a heated exchange with Alaska Representative Don Young over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The exchange, which was prompted when Rep. Young mistakenly referred to Dr. Brinkley as Dr. Rice while referring to Brinkley's testimony as "garbage," quickly escalated when Young said, "I'll call you anything you want", and Brinkley retorted, "You don't own me."

Conn. tech school task force seeks public comments (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2011 08:22 AM PST AP - A task force studying the future of Connecticut's 16 state-run technical high schools is asking for the public's opinions.

'Mythbusters' Accidentally Shot a Cannonball Into Someone's Home (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 07 Dec 2011 06:55 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - The cantaloupe-sized cannonball missed the water, tore through a cinder-block wall, skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood, where children were returning home from school at 4:15 p.m., authorities said.

Number of students attending charter schools soars (AP) Posted: 07 Dec 2011 05:09 AM PST AP - The number of students attending charter schools has soared to more than 2 million as states pass laws lifting caps and encouraging their expansion, according to figures released Wednesday.

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