2012年1月4日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Police kill Texas student, 15, armed with pellet gun (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:14 PM PST

Reuters - Police fatally shot a 15-year-old student armed with a pellet gun at a middle school in Brownsville, Texas, on Wednesday after he pointed it at officers, police said.

Police kill Texas student armed with pellet gun (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:05 PM PST

Reuters - Police fatally shot a 15-year-old student armed with a pellet gun at a middle school in Brownsville, Texas, on Wednesday after he pointed it at officers, police said.

Michigan school district is candidate for takeover (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 11:05 AM PST

Reuters - Michigan officials on Wednesday declared the Highland Park School District in a financial emergency, a step that could lead to a state takeover of the school system.

5 charged in San Diego-area school corruption (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 10:40 AM PST

AP - San Diego County prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged current and former officials of a local school district with taking bribes to award hundreds of millions of dollars worth of construction contracts.

Charter school benefits from Huntsman focus on NH (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:28 AM PST

AP - Students at a New Hampshire charter school got a lesson in politics Tuesday from Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman.

Spec-Ops troops study to be part-spy, part-gumshoe (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 12:23 AM PST

In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, a role-playing man, center, is interrogated during a mock exercise at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center & School at Fort Bragg, N.C. A scene of stomach-clenching gore confronted the special operations troops: The shredded remains of a suicide bomber, scattered around the checkpoint. But the blood and body are fake, like the Hollywood-style explosion that began a classroom exercise designed to teach these students to look past the grisly mess for the evidence that could lead to those who built the bomb. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)AP - The raid to grab Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan took just under 40 minutes — roughly 10 to get to bin Laden.


Banished Words from Michigan's Lake Superior State; Wayne State University's Words to Revive (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:27 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - Lake Superior State University (LSSU) in Michigan's upper peninsula recently announced its 37th annual voter-generated list of banned words for 2012. Meanwhile, says Michigan Radio, Detroit's Wayne State University has proffered a list of suggestions for defunct words to revive. Here's a fact box about both word lists: the repellent and resurrection-worthy.
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