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- Judge: Public can't see Idaho prison settlement (AP)
- School outs gay teen; civil rights groups outraged (AP)
- Turnaround plan targets rural W.Va. schools (AP)
- UC Berkeley's Middle Class Bid; Ivy League Early Admits (The Atlantic Wire)
- George W. Bush Looks Forward After No Child Left Behind (Time.com)
- Report: half of schools fail federal standards (AP)
- Google Giving Targets Education, Tech and Anti-Slaveryvar NREUMQ=NREUMQ||[];NREUMQ.push(["mark","firstbyte",new Date().getTime()]); (Mashable)
| Judge: Public can't see Idaho prison settlement (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST AP - A federal judge has refused to unseal a settlement agreement between an Idaho inmate and a private prison company involving allegations of rampant violence at a lockup near Boise known as "Gladiator School." |
| School outs gay teen; civil rights groups outraged (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 04:07 PM PST AP - Administrators at a Utah middle school outed a gay teenage boy to his parents because they feared he would be bullied, but the move has outraged civil rights groups that claim the student's privacy was violated. |
| Turnaround plan targets rural W.Va. schools (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 11:40 AM PST AP - A coalition that includes a Fortune 500 company, labor unions and nonprofit foundations outlined plans Thursday to spend the next five years focused on rescuing a rural West Virginia school district, one of the country's most downtrodden. |
| UC Berkeley's Middle Class Bid; Ivy League Early Admits (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:57 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - Today in academia: Berkeley's middle class bid, Ivy League admit numbers, Penn State's big donation, Riverside's protest rules, and Virginia Tech's parental notification policy. |
| George W. Bush Looks Forward After No Child Left Behind (Time.com) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 09:05 AM PST Time.com - George W. Bush is writing a sequel to his big education act |
| Report: half of schools fail federal standards (AP) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 05:25 AM PST AP - Nearly half of America's public schools didn't meet federal achievement standards this year, marking the largest failure rate since the much-criticized No Child Left Behind Law took effect a decade ago, according to a national report released Thursday. |
| Posted: 14 Dec 2011 06:01 AM PST Mashable - Google's charitable branch, Google.org, released a list Wednesday of its 2011 non-profit grant recipients, who received a combined $40 million. The list highlights the search giant's work promoting STEM and girls' education, empowering through technology, and fighting slavery and human trafficking. |
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