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• Obama Defends Bain Attacks, Reverse Robin Hood, Afghanistan Take-Aways (PM Note)
• Catholic dioceses, colleges sue over Obama mandate
• Arizona Leading the Way on Equal Rights Reform
• Is Congress getting dumber?
• Full eclipse
• Elaine Wynn: Take Holistic Approach to Curbing Dropouts
• Notre Dame sues Obama administration over birth control mandate
• Police: Bus possibly carrying Albanian students falls off a cliff
• Teacher-Developed Apps Fill Lesson Gaps

Obama Defends Bain Attacks, Reverse Robin Hood, Afghanistan Take-Aways (PM Note) Posted: Recalling Joplin – In a few hours, President Obama will give a commencement address to high school students in Joplin, Missouri. Use the sliderule to see what the high school looked like one year ago after the tornado – http://abcn.ws/J8M77R Things We Learned Today –...

Catholic dioceses, colleges sue over Obama mandate Posted: Roman Catholic dioceses, schools and other groups sued the Obama administration Monday in eight states and the District of Columbia over a federal mandate that most employers provide workers free birth control as part of their health insurance.

Arizona Leading the Way on Equal Rights Reform Posted: COMMENTARY | Despite liberal fears, Arizona has not become a biased state that prohibits the success of minorities since the passage of Proposition 107 banned public equal opportunity programs in the state. The first review released since Arizona voters approved the special consideration ban in public employment, higher education and contracting stated it is too soon to tell the full impact of the law change, according to The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

Is Congress getting dumber? Posted: Think members of Congress act like a bunch of high school students? You might be on to something. A recent study from the Sunlight Foundation found that members of Congress tend to speak at about a 10th-grade level. The Sunlight Foundation analyzed every word spoken by every member of Congress on the floor of the [...]

Full eclipse Posted: Junior high school students observe the annular solar eclipse through special glasses at the playground of their school in Kawakaki, surburban Tokyo.

Elaine Wynn: Take Holistic Approach to Curbing Dropouts Posted: About 75 percent of high school students in the United States graduate on time, but those who never get a diploma often earn less, resulting in lost economic activity for the country at large.

Notre Dame sues Obama administration over birth control mandate Posted: On Monday, the University of Notre Dame filed suit against the Obama administration over its rule that all employers must offer contraception in their insurance plans. Notre Dame is now the seventh religious college to sue over the mandate; it's also the largest school to do so. President Barack Obama gave the commencement address at the [...]

Police: Bus possibly carrying Albanian students falls off a cliff Posted: TIRANA, Albania - Police say a bus believed to be carrying high school students has fallen off a cliff in Albania.

Teacher-Developed Apps Fill Lesson Gaps Posted: Facebook and Angry Birds were two of the most downloaded apps last year, but that doesn't mean Web and mobile applications are all play. There are tens of thousands of educational apps aimed at teaching high school students everything from physics to Japanese.

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