Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2722 us Education News en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:25:09 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2722 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_muslim_school_holidays ap/20090703/us_muslim_school_holidays AP us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:25:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_muslim_school_holidays"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.93cf32b39ae74bd399eda0d304e2be14.muslim_school_holidays_nysw103.jpg?x=77&y=130&q=85&sig=aGeuj3lL0TbfpOlISrtzDw--" align="left" height="130" width="77" alt="This July 1, 2009 photo shows Moneeb Hassan, 17, posing for a picture in front of his high school, Benjamin N. Cardozo, in New York. Hassan, 17, is one of thousands of Muslim students in the city who must perform a balancing act between his academic and religious obligations during his holidays. But the nation's largest school district hasn't sanctioned official Muslim holidays. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)" border="0" /></a>AP - Moneeb Hassan remembers having to choose between a final exam in American history or celebrating the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha. In the end, he chose both.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090703/ap_on_re_us/us_muslim_school_holidays"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090703/capt.93cf32b39ae74bd399eda0d304e2be14.muslim_school_holidays_nysw103.jpg?x=77&y=130&q=85&sig=aGeuj3lL0TbfpOlISrtzDw--" align="left" height="130" width="77" alt="photo" title="This July 1, 2009 photo shows Moneeb Hassan, 17, posing for a picture in front of his high school, Benjamin N. Cardozo, in New York. Hassan, 17, is one of thousands of Muslim students in the city who must perform a balancing act between his academic and religious obligations during his holidays. But the nation's largest school district hasn't sanctioned official Muslim holidays. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_obama_teacher_pay ap/20090702/us_obama_teacher_pay AP politics Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:48:30 GMT AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan challenged members of the National Education Association Thursday to stop resisting the idea of linking teacher pay to student achievement. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20090702/ts_usnews/gatesfoundationgives165millionforcommunitycollegeprograms usnews/20090702/gatesfoundationgives165millionforcommunitycollegeprograms U.S. News & World Report topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:17:41 GMT U.S. News & World Report - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation renewed its commitment to improving college graduation rates for low-income and minority students by giving $16.5 million in grant money to expand remedial education programs at the community-college level. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090702/ts_advocate/school_district_billed_in_diversity_lawsuit advocate/20090702/school_district_billed_in_diversity_lawsuit The Advocate topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:39:17 GMT The Advocate - As California grapples with a massive $24 billion budget deficit, a public school district finds itself served with a bill totaling almost $15,000 related to a lawsuit over a diversity presentation it allowed to take place in March, reports the Hayward Daily Review. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090702/wr_nm/us_korea_education_tech_life nm/20090702/us_korea_education_tech_life Reuters technology Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:36:06 GMT Reuters - For a teacher who never sees his students and instructs only online, South Korean Woo Hyeong-cheol makes a lot of money, $4 million a year to be exact. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_en_ot/us_people_bruno_school ap/20090702/us_people_bruno_school AP entertainment Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:08:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_en_ot/us_people_bruno_school"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.38d0f4b94c564eed9a130d26c9de60ae.people_bruno_school_nyet874.jpg?x=103&y=130&q=85&sig=MIkISZH4vG2igVlyWq.BnA--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="In this undated image released by GQ magazine, Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as the Austrian flamboyant fashionista, Bruno, center, poses with members of the Birmingham High School football team from Van Nuys, Calif. The photo was published in the July 2009 issue of 'GQ', currently on newsstands. (AP Photo/GQ, Mark Seliger)" border="0" /></a>AP - A high school that was the location for a racy photo shoot by Sacha Baron Cohen's character "Bruno" has broken away from the nation's second-largest school district.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_en_ot/us_people_bruno_school"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090630/capt.38d0f4b94c564eed9a130d26c9de60ae.people_bruno_school_nyet874.jpg?x=103&y=130&q=85&sig=MIkISZH4vG2igVlyWq.BnA--" align="left" height="130" width="103" alt="photo" title="In this undated image released by GQ magazine, Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as the Austrian flamboyant fashionista, Bruno, center, poses with members of the Birmingham High School football team from Van Nuys, Calif. The photo was published in the July 2009 issue of 'GQ', currently on newsstands. (AP Photo/GQ, Mark Seliger)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090701/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_stimulus_schools ap/20090701/us_stimulus_schools AP politics Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:34:14 GMT AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan is releasing $2.7 billion in stimulus dollars earlier than planned to help states confront increasingly tighter budgets. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20090701/ts_usnews/payoffyourstudentloanwithhelpfromunclesam usnews/20090701/payoffyourstudentloanwithhelpfromunclesam U.S. News & World Report topstories Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:08:12 GMT U.S. News & World Report - Today could be a day of liberation for millions of college graduates who are struggling with college loan payments. Thanks to the federal government's new Income Based Repayment Plan, which takes effect today, many debtors can cut their payments on their federal student loans to less than 15 percent of their incomes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090630/ap_on_re_us/us_no_school_districts ap/20090630/us_no_school_districts AP us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:51:16 GMT AP - The school districts in such New Jersey hamlets as Hi-Nella (population 1,029), Teterboro (population 18) and Victory Gardens (population 1,546) will be history by the time schools open in fall 2010 under a bill signed by the governor Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090630/ts_advocate/___brno_shoot_doesnt_tickle_school_heads_ advocate/20090630/___brno_shoot_doesnt_tickle_school_heads_ The Advocate topstories Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:05:50 GMT The Advocate - Sacha Baron Cohen made headlines and millions of dollars following the release of Borat, but the Los Angeles Unified School District is taking issue with his latest character's handling of an L.A. high school football team. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/advocate/20090629/ts_advocate/conservatives_target_gay_appointee advocate/20090629/conservatives_target_gay_appointee The Advocate topstories Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:22:21 GMT The Advocate - The right-wing Family Research Council is so outraged by the appointment of former Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network president Kevin Jennings to the Department of Education, the group has launched a campaign to get him booted from his post as assistant deputy secretary heading the department's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_bi_ge/us_student_loan_relief ap/20090629/us_student_loan_relief AP business Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:28:30 GMT AP - Repaying a student loan could soon be a little less painful. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090627/ap_on_re_us/us_university_youtube_ban ap/20090627/us_university_youtube_ban AP us Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:44:35 GMT AP - Brigham Young University, the Mormon church school where students agree to live a chaste and virtuous life, has lifted its almost three-year policy of blocking access to YouTube. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090627/ap_on_re_us/us_big_picture_school ap/20090627/us_big_picture_school AP us Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:51:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090627/ap_on_re_us/us_big_picture_school"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090627/capt.13355b196fa740caa2b184f2a019c998.big_picture_school_njmd105.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=40buF6DMpJmnRUfrjYDdig--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="In this Wednesday, June 17, 2009 photo, Angelo Drummond, right, a 17-year-old junior at MetEast High School in Camden, N.J., presents his project of designing and funding a lounge for teenagers to classmates Wednesday, June 17, 2009. MetEast High School with only 100 students is one of about 60 schools nationwide established with the help of Big Picture Learning, an education non-profit, that uses small classes and advisers instead of teachers as well as other non-traditional teaching techniques to motivate students. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)" border="0" /></a>AP - Angelo Drummond wears a pressed white shirt and a red power tie for his two-hour presentation to his harshest critics — a panel of fellow students at Camden's MetEast High School.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090627/ap_on_re_us/us_big_picture_school"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090627/capt.13355b196fa740caa2b184f2a019c998.big_picture_school_njmd105.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=40buF6DMpJmnRUfrjYDdig--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Wednesday, June 17, 2009 photo, Angelo Drummond, right, a 17-year-old junior at MetEast High School in Camden, N.J., presents his project of designing and funding a lounge for teenagers to classmates Wednesday, June 17, 2009. MetEast High School with only 100 students is one of about 60 schools nationwide established with the help of Big Picture Learning, an education non-profit, that uses small classes and advisers instead of teachers as well as other non-traditional teaching techniques to motivate students. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20090626/tc_zd/241786 zd/20090626/241786 PC Magazine technology Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:26:18 GMT PC Magazine - Acer on Friday released a trio of new models and a new monitor aimed at the home and school user. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_us/us_california_school_s_not_out ap/20090625/us_california_school_s_not_out AP us Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:11:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_us/us_california_school_s_not_out"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090625/capt.275ff040639044898c7dfed9c38e3eb2.correction_california_school_not_out_cajh104.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=7z2.Ky6X6FScT7auePHJkw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Adrian Gonzalez, 10, walks past a banner at Rolling Ridge Elementary School in Chino Hills, Calif., Wednesday, June 24, 2009. At Rolling Ridge Elementary School and Dickson Elementary School in Chino, Calif., administrators face a $7 million penalty from the state after cutting a few school days too short. Scrambling to comply with state law, they began make-up days June 15 while their state assemblyman hurries to push a bill through the Legislature that could spare their sabotaged summer vacation from a rare technicality.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)" border="0" /></a>AP - It's a kid's worst nightmare — just as the last bell has rung for summer break, a school district's error sentences students to another six weeks in class.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_us/us_california_school_s_not_out"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090625/capt.275ff040639044898c7dfed9c38e3eb2.correction_california_school_not_out_cajh104.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=7z2.Ky6X6FScT7auePHJkw--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Adrian Gonzalez, 10, walks past a banner at Rolling Ridge Elementary School in Chino Hills, Calif., Wednesday, June 24, 2009. At Rolling Ridge Elementary School and Dickson Elementary School in Chino, Calif., administrators face a $7 million penalty from the state after cutting a few school days too short. Scrambling to comply with state law, they began make-up days June 15 while their state assemblyman hurries to push a bill through the Legislature that could spare their sabotaged summer vacation from a rare technicality.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090625/ts_nm/us_usa_school_stripsearch nm/20090625/us_usa_school_stripsearch Reuters topstories Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:03:31 GMT Reuters - A public school violated the privacy rights of a teenage girl who had to disrobe on suspicion she had ibuprofen pills, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in its first decision on student strip searches. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_us/us_state_schools_abuse ap/20090625/us_state_schools_abuse AP us Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:30:06 GMT AP - The head of a Texas agency in charge of the troubled state-run institutions for the mentally disabled has announced she is retiring. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090625/ts_alt_afp/useducationfamily afp/20090625/useducationfamily AFP us Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:51:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090625/ts_alt_afp/useducationfamily"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090626/capt.photo_1245937672391-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=106&q=85&sig=_N1EVSKJgTE1k_Zt7qye_A--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="Elizabeth "Bitsy" Dean and her brother Teddy study in the basement of their home in Columbia, Maryland on June 17, 2009. The number of home-schooled children soared by 29 percent between 1999 and 2003, from 850,000 to roughly 1.1 million, data from the National Center for Education Statistics show.(AFP/File/Karin Zeitvogel)" border="0" /></a>AFP - When Elizabeth Dean was four, her mother took her out of kindergarten to teach her at home because she could already read the children's classic "Charlotte's Web" while the other kids were just learning how to write the letter "C".</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090625/ts_alt_afp/useducationfamily"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090626/capt.photo_1245937672391-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=106&q=85&sig=_N1EVSKJgTE1k_Zt7qye_A--" align="left" height="106" width="130" alt="photo" title="Elizabeth "Bitsy" Dean and her brother Teddy study in the basement of their home in Columbia, Maryland on June 17, 2009. The number of home-schooled children soared by 29 percent between 1999 and 2003, from 850,000 to roughly 1.1 million, data from the National Center for Education Statistics show.(AFP/File/Karin Zeitvogel)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_us/us_iowa_school_shooting ap/20090625/us_iowa_school_shooting AP us Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:46:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_us/us_iowa_school_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090625/capt.4efd8996deaa4a048e9135ba56b265aa.iowa_school_shooting_iacn121.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ujunlglWIUAaC0ftcCXXxQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Local residents walk past a photo of Aplington-Parkersburg High School football coach Ed Thomas before a vigil Wednesday, June 24, 2009, in Parkersburg, Iowa. A gunman shot Thomas in the school's weight room early Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)" border="0" /></a>AP - Several hundred mourners gathered Wednesday at a rural Iowa stadium named for a popular high school football coach who authorities said was gunned down by a former player who was to have been taken to a psychiatric ward days before.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090625/ap_on_re_us/us_iowa_school_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090625/capt.4efd8996deaa4a048e9135ba56b265aa.iowa_school_shooting_iacn121.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=ujunlglWIUAaC0ftcCXXxQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Local residents walk past a photo of Aplington-Parkersburg High School football coach Ed Thomas before a vigil Wednesday, June 24, 2009, in Parkersburg, Iowa. A gunman shot Thomas in the school's weight room early Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)