| 2010-01-19 22:10 |
Stuck with the nation's shortest school year, Hawaii lawmakers will consider proposals for longer and more school days when this year's legislative session opens Wednesday. |
| 2010-01-13 04:01 |
After more than four hours of emotional and sometimes contentious debate, the Beverly Hills Unified School District approved a controversial proposal Tuesday to boot out more than 400 out-of-district students. |
| 2010-01-13 01:01 |
Hundreds of parents whose children enjoyed the opportunities of Beverly Hills' coveted schools turned out for a meeting Tuesday to watch the school board vote on a controversial proposal to boot out almost 500 out-of-district students. |
| 2010-01-12 16:01 |
Decades ago, poor children became known as "disadvantaged." Then they were "at-risk." Now, a Washington lawmaker wants to replace those euphemisms with a new one: "at hope." |
| 2010-01-12 13:01 |
The Beverly Hills school board will soon decide whether almost 500 out-of-district students will have to attend classes elsewhere. |
| 2009-12-29 16:01 |
Threats on Facebook, name-calling, security guard escorts - tempers are running high around schools these days in this normally sedate enclave of ostentatious wealth. |
| 2009-12-29 07:01 |
Test scores cloud the legacy of Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s tenure as Chicago’s schools chief.
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| 2009-12-29 04:01 |
The union that represents Hawaii's public school teachers has approved an agreement to reduce the number of furlough days in the current school year.
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| 2009-12-22 07:01 |
Using federal stimulus money to avoid layoffs at schools is going to create a shortfall even more difficult for states and schools to contend with when that money runs out, according to a first-of-its-kind study released Monday. |
| 2009-12-21 07:01 |
Recent slaying cases highlight the complexities of a 1997 law meant to keep mentally ill juveniles from being held in detention centers where they can't get proper treatment. |
| 2009-12-19 01:01 |
Budget cuts are forcing many schools to cut back on behind-the-wheel instruction or eliminating it altogether, leaving it to parents to either teach their kids to get them trained. |
| 2009-12-17 16:01 |
An Arizona music teacher whose students performed at a presidential inauguration event is on administrative leave after taking 40 high school students to a Hooters restaurant. |
| 2009-12-16 22:01 |
School district officials say a youngster's long hair violates the dress code in his suburban Dallas school district. |
| 2009-12-16 19:01 |
Georgetown University students are slamming a humor magazine for an online satirical piece they say is racist and not funny.
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| 2009-12-15 04:02 |
A 14-year-old boy is facing charges, and two school officials are on administrative leave, after authorities say a 12-year-girl was raped in a stairwell at a California school. |
| 2009-12-14 13:01 |
Police were on hand Monday as students returned to a New Jersey high school that prosecutors say was the target of a "Columbine-like" plot.
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| 2009-12-12 22:01 |
Eight people were under arrest Saturday after protesters broke windows, lights and planters outside the home of the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. |
| 2009-12-12 10:01 |
Childhood hunger is more complex than previously understood, new research suggests, and is unlikely to be solved simply by spending more money for food programs. |
| 2009-12-11 19:01 |
Police arrest 65 protesters inside a classroom building that was partially taken over for several days at the University of California, Berkeley.
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| 2009-12-08 19:01 |
The pilot who guided a disabled jetliner to an emergency landing in the Hudson River is offering his pilot's hat to help two California schools. |
| 2009-12-05 19:01 |
Obese students at a historically black college near Philadelphia won't have to take a fitness class to graduate after all.
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| 2009-12-04 16:01 |
Some Virginia Tech officials warned their own families about 90 minutes before a campus-wide alert was issued in the 2007 slayings of 32 people, according to a revised state report. |
| 2009-12-04 13:01 |
Virginia Tech officials locked down administrative buildings and told their own families more than 90 minutes before alerting the rest of the campus to mass shooting, The New York Times reports. |
| 2009-12-04 13:01 |
An Ivy League professor who shares a name with a man accused of killing a Wesleyan University student sues the school, saying it circulated his photo instead of the suspect's. |
| 2009-12-04 07:01 |
Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past. |
| 2009-12-04 04:01 |
As the stigma of atheism has diminished, campus atheists and agnostics across the United States are coming out of the closet.
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| 2009-12-03 22:01 |
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to help community colleges use technology to improve and go beyond basic online classes.
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| 2009-12-03 22:01 |
The British university at the center of what climate skeptics are calling "Climategate" on Thursday named an outside reviewer and detailed what would be investigated. |
| 2009-12-03 16:01 |
Colorado sheriff's deputies shocked an "out of control" 10-year-old child with a Taser and arrested him.
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