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Yahoo! News: Education News

U.S., California reach deal on education for English learners

Posted: 09 Sep 2016 12:39 PM PDT

The U.S. government said it reached a deal on Friday with California education authorities to ensure language instruction opportunities for the roughly 1.4 million students learning English in the state's public schools. The U.S. Justice Department said in a statement the agreement with the California Department of Education and the California State Board of Education would also improve compliance monitoring systems for language instruction services to the affected students.

Man agrees to 35-year term for kidnap of college students

Posted: 09 Sep 2016 10:44 AM PDT

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man has agreed to a 35-year prison sentence under the latest plea deal to come out of the kidnapping and torture of two New York college students.

Dozens held as teachers protest suspensions in Turkey's southeast, union says

Posted: 09 Sep 2016 08:35 AM PDT

Demonstrators scuffle with riot police during a protest against suspension of teachers from classrooms over alleged links with Kurdish militants, in the southeastern city of DiyarbakirBy Umit Ozdal DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) - Turkish police detained dozens of people and used water cannon on Friday to disperse several hundred teachers demonstrating against their suspension from classrooms in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, union sources said and TV footage showed. Brawls erupted and police pushed back crowds chanting "shoulder to shoulder against fascism" after Turkish authorities suspended more than 11,000 teachers on Thursday over alleged links with the Kurdish militants. A further 1,151 teachers were also suspended from duty in the predominantly Kurdish eastern provinces of Tunceli and Van on Friday, Dogan news agency reported.

How to Teach 9/11 to Students With No Memory of It

Posted: 09 Sep 2016 06:00 AM PDT

Sept. 11, 2001, was supposed to be Sari Rosenberg's first day teaching in New York City public schools. Instead, she spent the day watching in horror as the World Trade Center in Manhattan collapsed in a terrorist attack. "It was pretty remarkable," says Rosenberg, now a 15-year education veteran and 11th-grade history and AP history teacher at the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan.

2017 Best Colleges Preview: Top 10 National Liberal Arts Colleges

Posted: 09 Sep 2016 04:30 AM PDT

Applying to college is a journey that involves finding the right school, submitting applications and then -- if you're lucky -- choosing among the acceptance letters and financial aid awards to find that place you'll call home for the next few years.

Who Will Teach America’s Learning Disabled—and How?

Posted: 09 Sep 2016 03:17 AM PDT

How the Craft-Beer Boom Is Changing Your Local BrewAt 8:30 a.m. on the first Friday in June, the entrance to Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles is quiet. The students are already inside the campus' main building, a two-story brick-and-stone structure built in the Italian Renaissance style, featuring arched windows and a copper bell tower that has oxidized green since it was erected in 1931. The program is a collaboration between the Los Angeles Unified School District and California State University, Northridge, where Young earned her master's degree in special education and which is known nationally for its high-quality credentialing program for special education teachers.

ACLU suing Kansas City Public Schools for handcuffing boy

Posted: 08 Sep 2016 05:46 PM PDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A second-grader who refused a teacher's request to move to a different chair suffered emotional and physical pain when a school resource officer placed the 7-year-old in handcuffs, a lawsuit filed Thursday against Kansas City Public Schools alleges.

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