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MSNBC
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One in eight U.S. high school biology teachers presents creationism or intelligent design in a positive light in the classroom, a new survey shows, despite a federal court's recent ban against it.
And a quarter of the nation's high school biology teach..
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SF Gate
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California's annual ritual of ranking all public schools by how well they do on standardized tests shows that more of them are continuing to reach the desirable mark of 800 points on the state's Academic Performance Index (API).
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MSNBC
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Pink slips for principals and teachers. School-funded tutoring for poor kids. Schools are increasingly looking at those kind of consequences for failing to raise math and reading scores.
The federal No Child Left Behind law says that by the 2013-14 sch..
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MSNBC
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According to Carol Coletta, president and CEO of Chicago-based research organization CEOs for Cities, roughly two-thirds of young adults consider where they want to live first, then consider how they’ll earn a living.
“Jobs aren’t always the firs..
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SF Gate
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About 1,500 college students rallied at state Capitol this morning to protest $1 billion in budget cuts that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing for California's three college systems in the coming fiscal year.
Students from many UC, state universi..
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CNN
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A gunman dressed in black stepped from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday and shot 21 people, six of them fatally, then shot and killed himself, said university President John Peters. "A lot o..
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BBC News
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A gunman has opened fire on students at a university near Chicago in the United States, killing five people before turning the gun on himself, police say.
The shooting took place at Northern Illinois University, in De Kalb, 65 miles (100km) west of Chi..
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CNN
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A gunman dressed in black stepped from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday and shot 21 people, five of them fatally, then turned shot and killed himself, said university president John Peters...
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BBC News
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The World Bank has said the quality of education in the Arab world is falling behind other regions and needs urgent reform if it is to tackle unemployment.
In a report, bank officials said Arab states had to make improving education their top priority,..
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SF Gate
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A colorful bunch of balloons inflated to honor a beloved teacher who died of leukemia broke free and traveled more than 900 miles to a South Dakota cornfield.
"The balloons were still full of air," said Michael Beadle, who recently discovered them whil..
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Chicago Tribune
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A Wisconsin teacher who posted an anonymous comment online sarcastically praising the Columbine High School gunmen won't face criminal charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens said the comme..
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SF Gate
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A former teacher serving house arrest for having sex with a 14-year-old student was arrested on charges of violating her probation, state records show.
According to a Department of Corrections report, Debra Lafave discussed her personal life and other..
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SF Gate
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A six-year-old girl was grazed by a stray bullet as she stood on the playground at Dover Elementary School in San Pablo Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
The victim, a first grader at the school, suffered only a superficial wound to her abdomen, p..
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MSNBC
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It may have brought the world aspirin, rocket science, quantum physics and the diesel engine, but Germany's days of scientific glory are long gone and it is now hunting for a new generation of Einsteins.
Decades of underfunding and a distaste for the e..
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USA Today
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At last June's graduation at Franklin High School just outside of Milwaukee, three of the four students who tied for valedictorian were girls. Among the National Honor Society members, 76% were girls. And girls comprised 85% of the students on Franklin's..
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Chicago Tribune
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Anti-war and free-speech advocates joined angry parents and students in their battle with Berwyn school district officials who may expel a group of students who took part in an Iraq war protest at a school last week.
The lunchtime protest Nov. 1 in the..
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BBC News
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At least one person has been killed and three others injured in a shooting incident at a school in southern Finland, local media reports.
Police gave no details of the victims' injuries in the incident in the town of Tuusula, some 50km (30 miles) north..
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SF Gate
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Voters in two Bay Area school districts approved measures on Tuesday's ballot, while another measure was leading in late returns. A fourth failed.
A measure in Burlingame, a general obligation bond, requires 55 percent voter approval. The other three m..
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CNN
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A matron at Oprah Winfrey's school for girls in South Africa was formally charged Monday with 13 counts of abusing and assaulting students at the school. Dressed in a black and white football shirt, the woman, Tiny Virginia Mokobo, 27, pleaded not guilty..
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MSNBC
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People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.
Sixty-seven percent support giving contraceptives to stu..
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