Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Boy, 13, locked 9 hours in Philly school stairwell (AP)
• NCLB Failures Reveals Lack of Educators in Congress (ContributorNetwork)
• George W. Bush Looks Forward After No Child Left Behind (Time.com)
• Virtual schools booming as states mull warnings (AP)
• UC Berkeley's gift to middle-class families: a cap on college costs (The Christian Science Monitor)

Boy, 13, locked 9 hours in Philly school stairwell (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:12 PM PST AP - A 13-year-old boy says he spent more than nine cold, hungry and lonely hours trapped in a stairwell at a Philadelphia school.

NCLB Failures Reveals Lack of Educators in Congress (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:09 PM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The Associated Press reports that almost half of all U.S. public schools failed to meet federal performance standards this year under the controversial No Child Left Behind (NCLB) protocols.

George W. Bush Looks Forward After No Child Left Behind (Time.com) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 01:50 PM PST Time.com - George W. Bush is writing a sequel to his big education act

Virtual schools booming as states mull warnings (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 11:15 AM PST AP - More schoolchildren than ever are taking their classes online, using technology to avoid long commutes to school, add courses they wouldn't otherwise be able to take — and save their school districts money.

UC Berkeley's gift to middle-class families: a cap on college costs (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Dec 2011 02:39 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The University of California at Berkeley is sending an early holiday gift to middle-class families struggling to send their offspring to America’s top-ranked public institution of higher education.

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