2013年8月21日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Duncan, Oklahoma schools get threats, go on alert after murder of Australian athlete

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 02:16 PM PDT

A resident stands near a memorial at the scene where Australian college student Lane was killed in DuncanBy Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Public schools in Duncan, Oklahoma, were on alert on Wednesday after police received threats against Duncan High School following the arrest of three teenagers in connection with the killing of a university student from Australia. The school, in a town of 24,000 about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City, was told of the anonymous threats on Tuesday night by police, schools superintendent Sherry Labyer said in a message on the Duncan Public Schools' website. The nature of the threats was not known. ...


Duncan, Oklahoma schools on alert after murder of Australian athlete

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 10:08 AM PDT

A written note can be seen with flowers and a baseball on the Essendon Baseball Club's home plate in MelbourneBy Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Public schools in Duncan, Oklahoma, are on heightened security alert on Wednesday, one day after charges were filed against three teenagers in what police said may have been the thrill killing of an Australian university student. Duncan High School, located in a town of 24,000 about 80 miles south of Oklahoma City, was informed by police of anonymous threats on Tuesday night, according to schools superintendent Sherry Labyer in a message posted on the schools' website. ...


Americans' confidence rising in public school teachers, poll finds

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 06:58 AM PDT

Americans remain largely critical of the US education system as a whole, but parents, especially, are increasingly pleased with their neighborhood schools and more displeased with the rising use of standardized, multiple choice tests to evaluate, and potentially punish, teachers, a new Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll suggests.

Timeline: Key dates in civil rights movement

Posted: 21 Aug 2013 02:21 AM PDT

(Reuters) - August 28 marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. The address was a key event in the struggle of black Americans for racial equality. The following are major dates in the modern U.S. civil rights movement: 1948 - President Harry Truman desegregates the armed forces. 1954 - Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education. 1955-57 - Bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by seamstress Rosa Parks and organized by King. ...

On road trip, Obama will try to steer focus back to economy

Posted: 20 Aug 2013 10:04 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the economy in IllinoisBy Mark Felsenthal and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shadowed by turmoil in Egypt and domestic controversies, President Barack Obama will seek to regain political momentum on a bus tour during which he will push his plans for stoking the U.S. economy and taming the high cost of college tuition. On a two-day tour this week in the Northeast, where he has a strong base of support, Obama will grab the microphone while Congress is still out on a five-week summer break and cast Republicans as obstructionists. ...


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