2012年8月18日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Special needs kids staying in traditional schools

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 02:19 PM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, Matthew Asner, left, talks to his son Will, 9, who is autistic, as he bites into a piece of fresh grass at his Nestle Avenue Elementary School in the Tarzana district of Los Angeles. Public school districts are seeing higher proportions of children with special needs due to declining enrollment and charter schools that do not accept as many kids with disabilities, especially more severe disabilities. This raises a question of equitable access for these kids, as well as cost issues for school districts. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)The high cost of educating students with special needs is disproportionately falling on traditional public schools as other students increasingly opt for alternatives that aren't always readily open to those requiring special education.


Obama Urges Congress to Help Put Teachers Back to Work

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT

With students heading back to school, President Obama is accusing Republicans of wanting to cut education funding to give tax breaks to the wealthy, saying their economic plan "undercuts our future." "This year, several thousand fewer educators will be going back to school," the president...

Emory gave incorrect data to publications that rank U.S. colleges

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:53 PM PDT

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Emory University intentionally gave incorrect data for more than a decade to publications such as U.S. News & World Report that rank schools and had placed Emory's undergraduate program in a top tier, the school said on Friday. Beginning in 2000, when publications asked for SAT and ACT test scores for students enrolled in the Georgia-based university, Emory instead sent scores for those who had been accepted, Emory president James Wagner said in a statement. Scores for students who enrolled at Emory were "somewhat lower" than the scores of those who were accepted, he said. ...

Texas Teacher Brittni Colleps Gets 5 Years in Prison in Group Sex Scandal

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:21 AM PDT

Texas Teacher Brittni Colleps Gets 5 Years in Prison in Group Sex ScandalHusband Stands By Teacher Convicted of Sex With Four High School Students


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