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• B.C. teachers to vote next month on whether to launch illegal job action
• NH Senate approves tax credits for scholarships
• Free Gideon Bible handouts face another public school ban despite pressure
• Teachers, parents, writers explore yin-yang of Titanic for kids ahead of wreck's centennial
• Ohio Legislature Debates Fracking Tax Increase
• Government Initiative Tests Education Graduate Schools
• Smartphone Use Among College Students Concerns Some Professors
• Another Child Falls Through the Cracks in Ohio
• Titanic a magnet for kids, fine line for educators

B.C. teachers to vote next month on whether to launch illegal job action Posted: VANCOUVER - The B.C. teachers' union is asking its members if they want to break the law by mounting a strike to protest legislation that bans them from such job action.

NH Senate approves tax credits for scholarships Posted: New Hampshire's Senate is giving preliminary approval to a business-funded scholarship program to send students to private or out-of-district public schools.

Free Gideon Bible handouts face another public school ban despite pressure Posted: TORONTO - An expected ban on the free distribution of Gideon Bibles at public schools in a southern Ontario school district has angered those who see the decision as an atheist attack on religious values and children.

Teachers, parents, writers explore yin-yang of Titanic for kids ahead of wreck's centennial Posted: NEW YORK, N.Y. - Eleven-year-old John Payne has been a student of the Titanic since kindergarten.

Ohio Legislature Debates Fracking Tax Increase Posted: Ohio's proposed Mid-Biennium Review encompasses a broad spectrum of legislative changes, including a proposal to raise gas and oil drilling taxes on the oil and gas industry, according to the Columbus Dispatch. The drilling increases were removed from the budgetary review last week by the Ohio House of Representatives before hearings on the issue could take place. The mid-biennium review includes a $400 million for the construction of higher education facilities and $675 million for the Ohio School Facilities Commission, National Public Radio reports.

Government Initiative Tests Education Graduate Schools Posted: After 28 years working at a specialty chemical company, Michael Fowler of Whitestown, Ind., 50, felt the urge to inspire a love of science in teenagers, much as his own high school chemistry teacher had in him. In 2011, he was enticed by a three-year-old master's degree fellowship program for would-be science and math teachers at the University of Indianapolis.

Smartphone Use Among College Students Concerns Some Professors Posted: Pam Walsh does not own a smartphone. Walsh, a senior at Bryant University in Rhode Island, is a commuter student and says she uses the money that would go toward phone payments for gas instead. But, she notes, there have been situations when a smartphone, with its Internet capabilities, would have been useful.

Another Child Falls Through the Cracks in Ohio Posted: COMMENTARY | Another child fell through the cracks in Ohio. Finger-pointing between the Ohio Department of Education and the Dayton Public School District will likely continue for months as law enforcement officials sort out the facts in the death of a special-needs home-schooled teenager.

Titanic a magnet for kids, fine line for educators Posted: Eleven-year-old John Payne has been a student of the Titanic since kindergarten.

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