2016年3月14日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Failing grade? Trial over Florida's schools finally starts

Posted: 14 Mar 2016 02:53 PM PDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A showdown over Florida's public schools that began Monday in a Tallahassee courtroom is expected to delve into whether the changes pushed by Republican governors and a GOP-controlled Legislature over the last two decades helped or hurt the state's school children.

Glance: Trouble remains after colleges shed for-profit model

Posted: 14 Mar 2016 01:49 PM PDT

Glance: Trouble remains after colleges shed for-profit modelAn AP review on Monday found ongoing trouble at schools formerly part of Corinthian Colleges Inc., a for-profit career college chain that failed in 2014 amid allegations of fraud and mismanagement. Here's ...

US to fire monitor overseeing formerly for-profit colleges

Posted: 14 Mar 2016 01:08 PM PDT

In this March 11, 2016 photo, Shane Satterfield, a roofer who owes more than $30,000 in debt for an associate's degree in computer science from one of the country's largest for-profit college companies that failed in 2014, holds his diploma in Atlanta. "I graduated in April at the top of my class, with honors," says Satterfield. "And I can't get a job paying over $8.50 an hour." Despite pledging to distance itself from the poor business practices of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges Inc, the new owner of the Everest career college chain has retained key members of its staff and some of its hard-charging sales tactics. (AP Photo/David Goldman)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is removing a law firm hired to oversee the turnaround of schools owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc., a for-profit education company whose financial collapse had placed at risk more than $1 billion in federal student loans.

Study questions impact of NYC students' weight report cards

Posted: 14 Mar 2016 12:07 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2013, file photo, students enter MS88, a public middle school in the Brooklyn borough of New York. When New York City public schools began giving students report cards on their weight in 2005-2006, officials hoped the information would help fight an obesity epidemic in the nation's largest school system. But a new study finds being labeled fat does not spur weight loss, at least among students near the threshold for being flagged. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — When New York City public schools began giving students report cards on their weight a decade ago, officials hoped the information would help fight an obesity epidemic in the nation's largest school system. But a new study finds being labeled fat doesn't spur weight loss, at least among students near the threshold for being flagged.

End of Eden? Mining push in Philippines ends isolation of islanders

Posted: 14 Mar 2016 10:01 AM PDT

"The activities are quite strange for us," says Uybad, a Mangyan who has a master's degree from a college near Manila. Now tribal advocates here fret that after Mr. Aquino steps down in May his successor as president could be even more aggressive.

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