News on Education

Closing Schools

2010-03-10T19:32:10Z

Members of the Kansas City School Board listen to citizens during a meeting, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City school board voted to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

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Mass school closures approved in Kansas City, Mo.

2010-03-10T20:30:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Kansas City, Mo., board votes to close nearly half the district's schools to avoid bankruptcy</div><div><p>The Kansas City school board narrowly approved a plan Wednesday night to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to avoid a potential bankruptcy.</p><p>The board voted 5-4 after parents and community leaders made final pleas to spare the schools even as the beleag...

APTOPIX Closing Schools

2010-03-10T19:32:08Z

Superintendent John Covington listens to citizens during a meeting of the Kansas City School Board, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City school board voted to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

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US city schools locked down after online threat

2010-03-10T18:15:32Z

<div><p>A vague threat apparently posted by an Australian on two social networking sites led to the lockdown on Wednesday of all schools in the busy midwestern US city of Minneapolis, officials said.</p><p>City officials received a phone call early Wednesday alerting them that a young man planned to "shoot up" an unspecified school and then kill himself, police ...

Triple Shooting OSU

2010-03-10T13:18:38Z

This ID photo provided by Ohio State University shows Nathaniel Brown. Brown, a university custodial employee, reportedly shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio, according to officials....

Report: States team up on new academic standards

2010-03-10T00:18:20Z

<div id="subtitle">Report: Governors, state school leaders team up on new academic standards</div><div><p>Governors and state education leaders are proposing a new set of standards to define what should be taught in the nation's public schools, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.</p><p>The new benchmarks, to be announced Wednesday, are meant to replace standards that vary...

Teacher backs SUV into Mich. preschool classroom

2010-03-09T12:30:07Z

<div><p>A teacher trying to park her SUV Tuesday backed through a large window and into a classroom at the suburban Detroit school where she taught, slightly injuring several preschool students, authorities said.</p><p>The teacher was trying to park her Jeep outside Huda School & Montessori, a private Islamic school, and hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, Villa...

First lady to deliver 3 commencement addresses

2010-03-09T11:00:54Z

<div id="subtitle">First lady to deliver commencement addresses at 2 colleges, 1 high school this spring</div><div><p>First lady Michelle Obama will be the featured graduation speaker at three commencement ceremonies this spring.</p><p>Mrs. Obama will speak to graduates at the University of Arkansas at ...

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution

2010-03-08T14:45:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Home-schooling parents who prefer evolution say textbook publishers push Bible's origin story</div><div><p>Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons.</p><p>Mule's precocious daughter Elizabeth excels at science and has been studying tarantulas since she was 5. But she wat...

Feds: Calif. man ran student visa fraud ring

2010-03-08T14:31:46Z

<div id="subtitle">Feds: Calif. ring took English proficiency tests, helped Middle Eastern students get visas</div><div><p>A California man was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing various proficiency and college-placement exams for them, federal authorities s...

Man, 22, found dead at Carnegie Mellon frat house

2010-03-07T15:45:30Z

<div id="subtitle">Man, 22, found dead at Carnegie Mellon University fraternity house after birthday celebration</div><div><p>A man who had been celebrating a friend's birthday by drinking and socializing was found dead Sunday in a Carnegie Mellon University fraternity house, police said.</p><p>The 22-year-old man "likely drank too much" while celebrating Saturday night, police...

Va. AG: Colleges can't ban gay discrimination

2010-03-06T20:45:30Z

<div id="subtitle">Va. attorney general says state's public colleges lack authority to ban gay discrimination</div><div><p>Virginia's attorney general has advised the state's public colleges that they don't have the authority to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, saying only the General Assembly has that power.</p><p>The letter sent by Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli to state ...

HOME SCHOOLED

2010-03-06T11:33:04Z

Graphic shows the estimated number of home-schooled children in the U.S. between 1999 and

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Pentagon Metro Shooting

2010-03-06T02:16:21Z

In this undated photo provided by San Jose state University, John Patrick Bedell is seen in a student Identification picture. Authorities said Bedell pulled a handgun at a Pentagon entrance in Washington on Thursday, March 4, 2010, shot two police officers and was mortally wounded in an exchange of gunfire. The two officers were hos...

jennifer garner 4

2010-03-05T18:47:58Z

Jennifer Garner arrives to pick up her daughter Violet Affleck from pre-school Santa Monica, California - 04.03.10

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Britain's Cambridge University becomes 'hotel'

2010-03-05T15:20:34Z

<div><p>The University of Cambridge is opening the doors of its historic buildings for tourists who want to stay the night, the prestigious British institution said.</p><p>Visitors can stay in the colleges overnight while the students are away on holidays, with the buildings that housed famous figures such as Charles Darwin, University of Cambridge is opening the doors of its historic buildings for tourists who want to stay the night, the prestigious institution said.</p><p>Visitors can stay in the colleges overnight while the students are away on holidays, with the buildings that housed famous figures such as Charles Darwin, California.</p><p>Students, teachers, parents and school employees rallied and marche...

U.S. students protest fee hikes at universities

2010-03-04T22:33:22Z

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Students and faculty at California's public universities rallied across the state on Thursday to protest steep fee hikes they say have damaged a system of higher education long the envy of the nation.</p><p>More than 100 such events in more than 30 states were sched...

Rowdy protests target funding cuts at US campuses

2010-03-04T21:00:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Rowdy protests target funding cuts at US campuses; demonstrators shut down Calif. freeway</div><div><p>Students staged raucous rallies to protest education funding cuts on college campuses nationwide Thursday, but some demonstrations got out of hand as protesters threw punches and ice chunks in Wisco...