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Google's Social Move Attracts Critics - NYTimes.com

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 10 (News Report) - After Google announced that it was integrating material from Google+ into its search results, the Web shot back, attacking the company and accusing it of pushing aside competing social networks, including Twitter and Facebook.

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Police kill armed 8th-grader in Texas school

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By CBS News - Jan. 04 (News Report) - Police shot and killed an armed eighth-grader who "engaged" officers in the main hallway of his middle school on Wednesday, the South Texas school district said.

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Tucson's ethnic-studies program violates Arizona law, judge rules

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Stephen Ceasar - Dec. 28 (News Report) - The ruling affirms a decision by the state schools superintendent and could end classes on Mexican American heritage.

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Surge in Free School Lunches Reflects Economic Crisis

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Sam Dillon - Nov. 29 (Special Report) - Millions of students are receiving free or low-cost meals for the first time as their parents have lost jobs or homes in the economic crisis.

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Surge in Free School Lunches Reflects Economic Crisis

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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Obama to reduce student loan debt payments

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Alexa Vaughn - Oct. 26 (News Report) - The president will cut to 10% the maximum percentage of income that students will have to pay on their loans. Similar measures passed by Congress were not due to go into effect until 2014.

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Discharged for Being Gay, Veterans Seek to Re-enlist

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By James Dao - Sep. 04 (Investigative Report) - .By some estimates, hundreds of gay men and lesbians among the more than 13,000 who were discharged under the policy have contacted recruiters or advocacy groups saying they want to re-enlist after the policy is repealed on Sept. 20.

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Party Ends at For-Profit Schools

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Melissa Korn - Aug. 23 (News Report) - New-student enrollments at for-profit colleges are plunging—in some cases by more than 45%—as schools pull back on aggressive recruiting practices and more would-be students question the student debt involved.

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Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Tim Dickinson - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Even Rupert Murdoch is afraid of Roger Ailes, the paranoid boss of Fox News. But 'the Chairman' is using his power to make Americans more rightwing, more ignorant and ever more terrified At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered around a television mounted high on the wall, an image flashed to life, glowing bright in the darkened tavern: the MSNBC logo. A chorus of boos erupted among the Fox faithful. The CNN logo followed, and the catcalls multiplied. Then a third slide appeared, with a telling twist. In place of the logo for Fox News was a beneficent visage: the face of the network's founder. The man known to his fiercest loyalists simply as "the Chairman" – Roger Ailes. "It was as though we were looking at Mao," recalls Charlie Reina, a former Fox News producer. The Foxistas went wild. They let the dogs out. Woof! Woof! Woof! Even those ...

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In Pennsylvania, Suspicious Erasing on State Exams at 89 Schools

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Winerip - Aug. 02 (News Analysis) - In April, Dale Mezzacappa attended a panel discussion on cheating sponsored by the Education Writers Association. At the time, she was one of three staff reporters for The Notebook, a community newspaper and Web site that covers the Philadelphia public schools.

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Brown signs California Dream Act

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Maeve Reston - Jul. 26 (News Report) - Following through on a campaign promise, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Monday easing access to privately funded financial aid for undocumented college students. He also signaled that he was likely to back a more controversial measure allowing those students to seek state-funded tuition aid in the future.

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TED's Chris Anderson: the man who made YouTube clever

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Carole Cadwalladr - Jul. 16 (Special Report) - With his TED Talks series, the former magazine mogul Chris Anderson has racked up 500 million web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts. But that, he says, is only the start of an educational revolution

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Assembly passes bill to require contributions of gays in textbooks

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Patrick McGreevy - Jul. 06 (News Report) - Textbooks and history classes in California schools would be required to include the contributions of gays, lesbians and transgender Americans under a proposal given final legislative approval in the Assembly on Tuesday and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown.

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Providence Equity to Buy Blackboard for $1.64 Billion in Education Deal

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:36:10 -0700

Bloomberg - By Douglas MacMillan - Jul. 01 (News) - Providence Equity Partners Inc. agreed to buy Blackboard Inc. (BBBB), a maker of online educational software, for $1.64 billion. Providence will pay $45 a share in cash for Washington- based Blackboard, the companies said in a statement today. The price represents a 21 percent premium over Blackboard’s closing price on April 18, the day before the company said it would evaluate strategic alternatives, the companies said.

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Christie Loses Support for Second Term

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Elise Young - Jun. 29 (News) - More than half of New Jersey residents say they wouldn’t back Governor Chris Christie for a second term, disapproving of his choices on a range of policy and personal issues, from killing a commuter tunnel to using a state-police helicopter to attend his son’s baseball game.

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North Korea shuts down universities for 10 months

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Julian Ryall - Jun. 29 (News) - North Korea has shut down its universities for the next 10 months and sent students to work in factories, agriculture and the construction sector as it struggles to rebuild its economy.

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It's the Ads, Stupid: Why TV Leads to Obesity

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Alice Park - Jun. 28 (News) - How much TV do your kids watch? If you don't know, you might want to find out, say experts, since the time children spend in front of a TV or computer screen can have a profound effect on their physical and developmental health.

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Schools Eliminating Librarians as Budgets Shrink

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Fernanda Santos - Jun. 24 (Special Report) - Budget belt-tightening threatens to send school librarians the way of the card catalog. The schools superintendent in Lancaster, Pa., said he had to eliminate 15 of the district’s 20 librarians to save full-day kindergarten classes. In the Salem-Keizer school district in Oregon, all 48 elementary and middle school librarians would lose their jobs under a budget proposal that faces a vote next week.

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School funding: Public good, public cuts

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jun. 19 (News Analysis) - In 1783 Noah Webster, a schoolteacher, published the first edition of his American spelling book. It would become a standard text in classrooms around the country, selling 60m copies over the course of the next century. Webster’s view was that the new country deserved its own approach to English, more accessible than the version it had inherited. For Webster and his followers, literacy was a democratic goal as much as a pedagogical one. That vision of public education is a compelling one, although America has often fallen short in its pursuit of the ideal. This makes it troubling that many cities and states, struggling to make up budget shortfalls, have put schools on the chopping block. In Texas, for example, legislators expect $4 billion in cuts for schools over the next two years, a 6% decrease from the state’s projected funding formulas for 2012. The state convened a special legislative session to hash out the details, after a Democratic state senator filibustered the legislation in the regular session.

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Chris Christie Announces Plan To Privatize New Jersey Public Schools

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Jun. 12 (News Report) - NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced a pilot program on Thursday that would allow private companies to run public schools...

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China shuts battery factories due to lead poisoning

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 30 (News) - Battery factories across China have been closed amid fears about poisoning from metals used by the industry. About 74 people have been detained after reports that more than 100 people, including children, were effected [sic] by lead and cadmium poisoning.

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Teaching Beyond the Test, to Make Room Again for Current Events

Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Winerip - May. 22 (Special Report) - To Robert Barry, a senior at Farmington High School, it seems normal to have a war or two going on while you’re growing up. “Afghanistan started when we were in third grade,” he said. “We heard about it, but it’s in the background — we stopped noticing it.”

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Circumcision Ban to Appear on San Francisco Ballot

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Staff writers - May. 18 (News) - An initiative that would ban the circumcision of males younger than 18 in San Francisco has received enough signatures to appear on the ballot. The practice would become a misdemeanor.

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Iraq's abandoned children

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Jane Arraf - May. 10 (Special Report) - there are just four small orphanages in the capital, Baghdad - none of them filled to capacity. The Iraqi government says that relatives would rather abandon children they are unable to take care of than bear the shame of bringing them to an orphanage.

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FBI probes white powder in letters sent to DC schools

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - May. 06 (News) - The FBI on Friday is investigating more than three dozen suspicious letters containing a white powdery substance sent to schools in the capital area, leading authorities to race across the city to check for possible threats.

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