2015年6月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: Education News

New York City to offers free eye tests, glasses to older students

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 03:40 PM PDT

New York City Mayor De Blasio holds a news conference on his progressive agenda against income inequality with labor leaders and elected officials outside the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonBy Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 65,000 students in New York City's poorest-performing public schools will have their vision screened and, if needed, get a free pair of eyeglasses, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday. The new city partnership with Warby Parker, a New York-based company known for its online sales of fashion-conscious eyewear, aims to remove poor eyesight as a barrier to education, the Democratic mayor said in a news release. It expands vision screenings beyond the usual elementary school years to include middle and high school students in all 130 Community Schools, which are among the city's lowest-achieving schools, the mayor said.

Top Asian News at 4:30 p.m. GMT

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 09:32 AM PDT

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — On a hillside overlooking an athletic field where high school students play volleyball, an inconspicuous entrance leads down a dusty, slippery slope — and seemingly back in time — to Japan's secret Imperial Navy headquarters in the final months of World War II. Here, leaders of Japan's combined fleet command made plans for the fiercest battles, including those of Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima and Okinawa from late 1944 to the war's end in August 1945. They knew when kamikaze pilots crashed to their deaths when signals from their planes stopped. They cried when they monitored cables from officers aboard the famed battleship Yamato as it came under heavy U.S. fire and sank off southern Japan.

Japan's secret navy bunker gives glimpse of war's final days

Posted: 24 Jun 2015 08:25 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, June 23, 2015 photo, a security guard closes a metal door of an entrance of underground tunnels that Japan's Imperial Navy once used as secret headquarters underneath of Hiyoshi Campus of Keio University in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. Today, the concrete tunnels sit quietly underneath the high school and university campus, largely untouched and unknown, occasionally visited by guided tours for the students. The school opened them to the media for the first time this week to raise public awareness of the site and the tragic history it represents, in the 70th anniversary year of the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — On a hillside overlooking an athletic field where high school students play volleyball, an inconspicuous entrance leads down a dusty, slippery slope — and seemingly back in time — to Japan's secret Imperial Navy headquarters in the final months of World War II.

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