Texas governor offers school grants to spur sharing (Reuters)
Reuters – Texas schools that cut bureaucratic costs by sharing services — from accounting to transportation — would get grants worth 10 percent of their savings under a plan Governor Rick Perry proposed on Tuesday.
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Wen says rote learning must go in Chinese schools (Reuters)
Reuters – Chinese schools have to get their students to be creative and think for themselves, Premier Wen Jiabao told officials, in reference to the rote-learning deeply ingrained in the national education system.
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Armed man fatally shot at Tennessee high school (AP)
AP – An armed man was fatally shot by deputies Monday at an east Tennessee high school after he went inside and pointed a gun at the principal’s head, a sheriff said.
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Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Growing up in Chicago, Arne Duncan learned early that education was a stark dividing line – sometimes literally between life and death.
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Private colleges ‘act local’ with financial aid (AP)
AP – Hoping to portray themselves as more affordable and all-around better neighbors, private colleges from Appalachia to Boston are sweetening financial aid packages for students from their own backyards.
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Rocket Boys’ alma mater in W.Va. to be demolished (AP)
AP – The wrecking ball is coming for a West Virginia high school that was home to the teenage amateur rocket enthusiasts profiled in the movie “October Sky.”
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After Katrina, how charter schools helped recast New Orleans education (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Before hurricane Katrina, the school system in New Orleans was like a dysfunctional marching band: It had structure and central direction, but academic failure and corruption dragged it down.
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Gaming Skills Become a College Course (PC World)
PC World – Problem-solving skills used in one of — if not the most — popular real-time strategy games of all time are not unlike those used in the 21st Century real world.
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Gaming Skills Become a College Course
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School’s race rule prompts mom to pull kids out (AP)
AP – A policy intended to achieve racial equality at a north Mississippi school has long meant that only white kids can run for some class offices one year, black kids the next. But Brandy Springer, a mother of four mixed race children, was stunned when she moved to the area from Florida and learned her 12-year-old daughter couldn’t run for class reporter because she wasn’t the right race.
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NJ Gov fires education chief over $400 mln typo (Reuters)
Reuters – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican whose deep budget cuts have won wide praise, on Friday fired his education commissioner after a clerical error cost the state $400 million in federal education dollars.
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