Conn. governor hopefuls say urban areas a priority (AP)
AP – More opportunities for jobs and education reform will help jumpstart Connecticuts urban areas, the state’s gubernatorial candidates told an audience Friday night.
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Regulator taking on cyberbullying in schools (Reuters)
Reuters – Schools receiving subsidies for Internet service will have to teach students about cyberbullying and the responsible use of social networking sites, the U.S. telecommunications regulator said on Friday.
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RV’s backfiring engine leads to NJ school lockdown (AP)
AP – Teachers thought they heard gunfire near a New Jersey elementary school, but it turns out it was just a backfiring recreational vehicle.
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RV’s backfiring engine leads to NJ school lockdown
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FACT CHECK: Obama’s education claims missing facts (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama says almost every chance he gets that Republicans would cut education spending by 20 percent if their party wins control of Congress in the Nov. 2 elections. He also says they would repeal a new college tuition tax credit.
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Flunking His Midterms? (The Daily Beast)
The Daily Beast – Obama’s ambitious education agenda is in peril, as his allies face firing at the polls in November. Dana Goldstein on the shaky state of school reform.
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Flunking His Midterms?
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"School Pride" papers over the truth about education (Reuters)
Reuters – Feel-good reality could hardly be warmer and fuzzier than it is on hug-inducing, tearful “School Pride,” the education-focused equivalent of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” If only producers Cheryl Hines and Denise Cramsey could have stopped right there. Just stopped and fixed the school and then, maybe, closed with an assembly and a round of “Kumbaya.”
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For-profit schools reel as rules affect enrollment (AP)
AP – The nation’s largest for-profit college is changing admission practices to satisfy new government regulations aimed at preventing students from leaving school with staggering debt they can’t repay, but the result may be that fewer lower-income students will gain entry to class.
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For-profit schools reel as rules affect enrollment
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Education conference to focus on teacher contracts (AP)
AP – Federal education officials are teaming up with teachers unions to hold a national conference on labor-management collaboration.
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Education conference to focus on teacher contracts
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Charter Schools: The Good Ones Aren’t Flukes (or Cherrypickers) (Time.com)
Time.com – Although students at high-performing charters are admitted via lottery, the success of these top-tier schools isn’t random and is very much replicable
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CA playground shooting suspect pleads not guilty (AP)
AP – An electronics technician accused of wounding two girls after opening fire at a Southern California elementary school playground has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of attempted murder.
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