2012年3月8日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Since When Is Being Patriotic Racist?

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COMMENTARY | I am absolutely appalled a high school basketball team would be called out for a "U.S.A." chant. Being patriotic is not being insensitive. In fact, America needs more patriots, but apparently, some folks in Texas don't agree. As reported by KENS5 in San Antonio, Alamo Heights High School students have had a complaint filed against them for chanting "U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A."

Surgeon general declares youth smoking an "epidemic"

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A man smokes a cigarette as he sits in a hutong, Chinese for small alley, in central BeijingCHICAGO (Reuters) - Smoking among America's youth has reached epidemic proportions, starting them on the path to a lifetime of addiction, the U.S. surgeon general's office said in its first report on youth smoking since 1994. Among U.S. high school seniors, one in four is a regular cigarette smoker, and because few high school smokers are able to quit, some 80 percent will continue to smoke as adults, according to the report released on Thursday. "Today, more than 600,000 middle school students and 3 million high school students smoke. ...

Okla. audit questions secret Education Dept. fund

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Some former officials of the Oklahoma's Department of Education used secret bank accounts to spend more than $2 million on such things as beer, wine, food and entertainment for a decade, according to an investigative audit released Wednesday by Oklahoma Auditor & Inspector Gary Jones.

NJ teachers union tops lobbyist spending list

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For the second straight year, New Jersey's powerful teachers union has topped the list of lobbyist spending by special interest groups.

Should Entrepreneurs Seek MBA Degrees?

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Some great entrepreneurs have a master's degree in business administration; others don't. But many aspiring business owners still trade in their pinstripe suits and briefcases for hooded sweatshirts and backpacks in pursuit of an MBA degree--including me.

Michigan lawmakers approve school union dues bill

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The Republican-led Michigan Legislature narrowly approved a measure Wednesday that would prohibit public schools from automatically deducting union dues from the paychecks of teachers and other employees, a move that unions consider another attack on collective bargaining rights.

B.C. teachers defiant as public schools reopen after three day strike

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VANCOUVER - Public school teachers in British Columbia head back to class today as they wrap up a legal, three day strike.

Cash-poor schools raid rivals in bid to boost student rosters

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(Reuters) - As American public school administrators look to bring in more money by recruiting students overseas, they are also hunting closer to home - hoping to poach pupils from rival schools and to draw in home-schooled children. Schools generally get more state funding as their enrollment rises, so districts across the United States are seeking to boost their numbers by attracting students from other public schools in their town or even elsewhere in the state. They're also trying to reel back in students who have left the public system to be home-schooled. ...

Utah lawmakers pass bill to curb sex education in schools

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SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - Utah would become the first state to ban public schools from teaching contraception as a way of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases under a bill given final legislative approval by state lawmakers. The measure, which cleared Utah's Republican-controlled House and Senate mainly along party-line votes, would also bar instruction on homosexuality or other aspects of human sexuality except for materials that encourage abstinence before marriage. ...

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