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- New York state owes poor schools $5.5 billion: advocates (Reuters)
- Obama seeks $5 billion to transform teaching (Reuters)
- New Mexico freed from federal school rating law (AP)
- A member of the Little Rock Nine looks back (The Upshot)
- 5th person convicted in NJ schoolyard killings (AP)
- University of LOLz: Digging for the roots of college memes (Digital Trends)
| New York state owes poor schools $5.5 billion: advocates (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:26 PM PST Reuters - Education advocates on Wednesday pushed New York State to increase funding for schools in impoverished areas in the budget for the new fiscal year, saying those schools are owed $5.5 billion under a 2007 court ruling. |
| Obama seeks $5 billion to transform teaching (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 02:46 PM PST Reuters - U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a scathing critique of teacher training colleges on Wednesday as he unveiled a $5 billion initiative to transform the teaching profession. |
| New Mexico freed from federal school rating law (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:56 PM PST AP - New Mexico is becoming the latest state to free itself from an unpopular federal system of rating public schools. |
| A member of the Little Rock Nine looks back (The Upshot) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:18 AM PST The Upshot - On September 4, 1957, nine African-American students arrived at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, to attend their first day of class. They were met with angry segregationist mobs and the National Guard--not to protect them, but to keep them from entering the all-white school. The students had been enrolled by the NAACP and [...] |
| 5th person convicted in NJ schoolyard killings (AP) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:32 PM PST AP - A fifth person charged in the execution-style killings of three friends in a New Jersey schoolyard has been convicted. |
| University of LOLz: Digging for the roots of college memes (Digital Trends) Posted: 14 Feb 2012 05:23 PM PST Digital Trends - Now that the two month excitement period has passed and the âSh*t [insert relatable target market] Sayâ fanaticism is dying down, you might have taken notice of the meme deluge (Iâm not talking about Jeremy Lin here) flooding your Facebook News Feed. Nearly overnight, the existence of memes has gone viral. |
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