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• 45 students hurt in chain-reaction Ind. bus crash
• MOOC University
• French split over English at universities
• NYC to remove PCBs from schools by 2016
• The War on Christmas Is Losing in Texas: Teachers Can Now Say 'Merry Christmas'
• SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sotomayor at Yale

45 students hurt in chain-reaction Ind. bus crash Posted: 22 May 2013 03:51 PM PDT NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. (AP) — Northern Indiana authorities say more than 45 middle and high school students were injured and a bus driver was seriously hurt in a chain-reaction crash involving four school buses.

MOOC University Posted: 22 May 2013 03:16 PM PDT Georgia Tech will soon offer a Master's degree in Computer Science that you can receive online. This could be huge, Rob Walker writes.

French split over English at universities Posted: 22 May 2013 09:25 AM PDT * Parliament debating higher education reform * Bill could see English introduced as teaching language * Opponents fear French language under threat By Nicholas Vinocur PARIS (Reuters) - Defenders of the French language are furious at plans to introduce courses taught in English at public universities, arguing that France must protect itself against linguistic encroachment or risk losing its cultural identity. ...

NYC to remove PCBs from schools by 2016 Posted: 22 May 2013 09:06 AM PDT New York City plans to expedite the removal light fixtures containing toxic PCBs from 645 city schools by 2016, five years earlier than originally planned. The city Department of Education said Tuesday ...

The War on Christmas Is Losing in Texas: Teachers Can Now Say 'Merry Christmas' Posted: 22 May 2013 07:36 AM PDT For those of you worried that government can't be proactive, good news out of Texas. On Monday, the state's legislature sent Governor Perry its "Merry Christmas" bill, which would authorize schools to refer to the holiday in non-generic terms. Perry is expected to sign it.

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sotomayor at Yale Posted: 21 May 2013 11:09 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the author of a unanimous decision delivered at the Supreme Court on Monday, but Sotomayor was hundreds of miles from Washington when the court convened.

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