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Yahoo! News: Education News

Georgia cites 'educational sovereignty' in move to abandon Common Core

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 01:32 PM PST

Georgia Republicans, rebelling against what they see as a federal schoolhouse grab, may succeed in a first-in-the-nation bid to derail the so-called Common Core school standards while returning more control of math, social studies, and science curricula to local school districts in the Deep South state. Common Core, the new standard for public schools in 45 states and the District of Columbia, began as a push by state governors and business interests to encourage better-educated public school graduates, and Georgia was among the leaders. But now Georgia is leading a charge to bar federal interference in what students are taught or how they are tested, including the use of federal funds to reward states that adopt the Common Core. Picking up on agitation across the state, they questioned whether Common Core represents a push for higher standards or, rather, a new incursion by the federal government into state affairs.

Survey finds many schools need repairs

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 12:29 PM PST

This Thursday, July 5, 2012 photo shows the exterior of the 88 year-old Charles E. Gorton High School in Yonkers, N.Y. The Yonkers school district is looking for investors to pay for a $1.7 billion overhaul of dozens of schools, including Gorton, built in 1924 and 43% over-enrolled, according to school district officials. To replace the building would cost $128 million and to overhaul it with repairs would cost $428 million, according to John Carr, who heads up the Yonkers Public Schools Facilities division. Across the country, innovative deals are now being discussed that would put essential pieces of public infrastructure in the hands of global investment firms, the latest effort to cope with a lingering fiscal crisis that has left some communities unable to pay for their needs. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the nation's public schools need to be repaired, renovated or modernized, a survey released Thursday found.

E-cigarette use linked to higher smoking odds

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 10:57 AM PST

Electronic cigarettes with different flavored E liquid are seen on display on September 6, 2013 in Miami, FloridaE-cigarette use among US youths doubled in just one year, and those who tried the unregulated devices were more likely to smoke conventional cigarettes as well, a study said Thursday. Just over three percent of US adolescents had ever tried an e-cigarette in 2011, and that more than doubled to 6.5 percent in 2012, said the research in JAMA Pediatrics, a journal of the American Medical Association. Youths who had tried e-cigarettes were more likely to experiment with conventional cigarettes, and were more likely to be current cigarette smokers than kids who had not tried them, said the study. The research was based on middle and high school students who filled out the National Youth Tobacco Survey, including more than 17,500 in 2011 and some 22,500 in 2012.

College Students See Fewer Credit Card Ads

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 07:06 AM PST

Not so many years ago, college freshmen were greeted during orientation week with credit card offers that came with enticing gifts, such as free T-shirts and burritos. The problem with these freebies, according to some consumer advocates, is that they persuaded college students to take out credit cards and take on debt they had no business accumulating. The orientation week burritos, in other words, led to credit card debt indigestion later. In a new report from the Government Accountability Office published last month, the agency concludes that credit card marketing to college students has gone down, and in some cases, disappeared altogether.

Why the SAT had to change

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 06:42 AM PST

Earlier this week, high school students were given a surprise gift — the dreaded essay portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test would be going optional in spring 2016.

U.S. News Talks Arab Region University Rankings in Middle East

Posted: 06 Mar 2014 06:30 AM PST

I recently returned from the Middle East, where I visited Beirut, Lebanon, and Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, to attend higher education meetings. First, I went to the American University of Beirut, which held a forum for U.S. News attended by colleges and universities from Lebanon. The director of the university's Office of Institutional Research and Assessment , Karma El Hassan, organized the event. U.S. News plans to collaborate with higher education institutions and education officials in the region.

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