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- Two teenagers shot near Miami area high school
- 'Kissing disease' outbreak closes Oklahoma school district
- Joel Klein: Education key to ending income inequality
| Two teenagers shot near Miami area high school Posted: 20 Nov 2014 03:55 PM PST By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Two youths were shot near a Miami-area high school on Thursday afternoon, according to Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The two victims were minors and were not students at the school, said John Schuster, spokesman to the school district. The condition of the pair was not immediately known. No suspects have been arrested and police are still searching for the shooter, Schuster said. Three schools were placed on lockdown before students were released to their parents. ... |
| 'Kissing disease' outbreak closes Oklahoma school district Posted: 20 Nov 2014 02:39 PM PST OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A small Oklahoma school district has ordered all of its students to stay away from classes until December due to an outbreak of mononucleosis, officials said on Thursday. Woodland Public Schools in Fairfax, about 100 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, said it made the decision so as not to put the nearly 200 students in the district at risk of the contagious disease. "The closure is due to a high infection frequency of mononucleosis in our community," the school board said. ... |
| Joel Klein: Education key to ending income inequality Posted: 19 Nov 2014 07:51 AM PST Joel Klein, a leading voice in the national conversation on education reform says it's impossible to close the income gap without addressing shortcomings in our public education system. Klein sat down with Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Aaron Task to discuss his thoughts on how to confront the challenges faced in public schools across the United States, which he also outlines in his newly-published memoir "Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools." |
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