2012年10月22日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Education News


'Little czar' in Ohio school drug ring gets prison

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 11:48 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, July 31 2012 photo, Warren County Juvenile Court Judge Mike Powell warns 17-year-old Ohio high school student Tyler Pagenstecher, right, of the consequences of admitting guilt at his first hearing in Lebanon, Ohio. Pagenstecher pleaded guilty to drug-trafficking charges in juvenile court and will be sentenced Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. Police say he played a major role in a drug ring that sold as much as $20,000 worth of high-grade marijuana a month to fellow students at two high schools. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)A teenager convicted of selling up to $20,000 worth of high-grade marijuana a month to high school students in southwestern Ohio was sentenced Monday to serve six months to three years in a juvenile prison by a judge who called him "a pretty fine young person that went down a bad trail."


Mo. legislative panel focuses on higher ed funding

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:09 AM PDT

A panel of state lawmakers holds a hearing at the University of Central Missouri this week on creation of a funding formula for higher education institutions.

The definitive list of the 12 most expensive colleges in the United States [SLIDESHOW]

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 09:02 PM PDT

While people have complained about the costs of undergraduate education for generations, things have really gotten out of control in the last decade or so. Loans, scholarships and grants allow most students to attend at some kind of discount. But the retail cost of a year of education is close to unconscionable at a slew of colleges and universities.

Uruguayan way: legal abortion and marijuana sales

Posted: 21 Oct 2012 06:37 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2009, file photo Uruguay's President Jose Mujica, 74, stands in a tractor on his flower farm on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday. Uruguayans used to call their country the Switzerland of Latin America, but its faded grey capital seems a bit more like Amsterdam now that its congress legalized abortion on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, and is drawing up plans to sell government-grown marijuana. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, file)Uruguayans used to call their country the Switzerland of Latin America, but its faded grey capital seems a bit more like Amsterdam now that its congress has legalized abortion and is drawing up plans to sell government-grown marijuana.


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