2016年10月7日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Chicago teachers, school officials look to avert strike

Posted: 07 Oct 2016 04:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2012 file photo, Chicago public school teachers take a group picture as they walk a picket line outside a school in Chicago. Contract negotiations between teachers and officials in the nation's third-largest school district will happen throughout the weekend in hopes of reaching a deal to avert a strike. The Chicago Teachers Union has said its members are prepared to stop instruction for about 400,000 students as early as Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 for its second major strike since 2012, when teachers were out for seven school days. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)CHICAGO (AP) — Contract negotiations between Chicago teachers and officials in the nation's third-largest school district will happen throughout the weekend in hopes of reaching a deal to avert a strike.


Water testing expanded to all Philadelphia Public Schools; some results released

Posted: 07 Oct 2016 03:04 PM PDT

Water testing expanded to all Philadelphia Public Schools; some results releasedAll Philadelphia Public Schools will now have their drinking water tested for lead.


US school students of color: We want teachers who look like us

Posted: 07 Oct 2016 02:05 PM PDT

American school kids prefer teachers of color, a new study shows. As the demographic make-up of US students has tipped toward a minority-majority, much has been made of the contrast seen in the nation's predominantly white body of teachers. The survey data included students' rankings of their teachers based on "7Cs" – Challenge, Classroom Management, Care, Confer, Captivate, Clarify, and Consolidate. Importantly, the researchers note, students were asked to give feedback on specific teachers, not the overall teacher workforce at their school.

In Lebanon, getting Syrian children in school a huge task

Posted: 07 Oct 2016 06:24 AM PDT

Syrian refugee children attend a class at a school in Mount LebanonIt is a crisis that ensures the effects of Syria's war, now in its sixth year, will be long felt throughout the region, where hundreds of thousands more out-of-school children live. Western nations and Lebanon's education ministry recognize the scale and significance of the issue. Families interviewed by Reuters in different parts of Lebanon spoke of a range of barriers to putting their children in school, including poverty and reliance on child labor, government-imposed movement restrictions and public schools turning Syrian pupils away as the new academic year begins.


Where ACC Schools Rank Among the 2017 U.S. News Best Colleges

Posted: 07 Oct 2016 05:00 AM PDT

Duke University Stands at the Top

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