Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/us/education us Education News en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:09:46 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/us/education http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_alabama_school_shooting ap/20100209/us_alabama_school_shooting AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:09:46 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_alabama_school_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100206/capt.971f07d26a5b4737a223da17ba623bc7.alabama_school_shooting_aldec103.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=.MMAqWRe5tDgmn0dMmp1zQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A shocked student leaves with her father after Todd Brown, a 14-year-old boy, was shot by a fellow student, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 at the Discovery Middle School in Madison, Ala. A ninth-grader is in extremely critical condition after being shot by another student at an Alabama middle school. Officials said 14-year-old Todd Brown was taken by ambulance to Huntsville Hospital from Discovery Middle School, where the shooting occurred Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, Jeronimo Nisa) MAGS OUT; NO SALES" border="0" /></a>AP - A lawyer for a ninth-grader charged with shooting a fellow student to death at their Alabama school says the violence was likely related to gang activity.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_alabama_school_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100206/capt.971f07d26a5b4737a223da17ba623bc7.alabama_school_shooting_aldec103.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=.MMAqWRe5tDgmn0dMmp1zQ--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="A shocked student leaves with her father after Todd Brown, a 14-year-old boy, was shot by a fellow student, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 at the Discovery Middle School in Madison, Ala. A ninth-grader is in extremely critical condition after being shot by another student at an Alabama middle school. Officials said 14-year-old Todd Brown was taken by ambulance to Huntsville Hospital from Discovery Middle School, where the shooting occurred Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, Jeronimo Nisa) MAGS OUT; NO SALES" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_bi_ge/ks_xgr_kansas_schools_finance ap/20100208/ks_xgr_kansas_schools_finance AP business Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:23:11 GMT AP - Consolidating public school districts in Kansas could save millions of taxpayer dollars, although not enough to solve the state's budget crisis this year, according to a new report released Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_us/us_school_stabbing ap/20100208/us_school_stabbing AP us Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:10:28 GMT AP - In a recorded jailhouse conversation, a teenager charged with fatally stabbing another student at a suburban high school told a friend he was being "persecuted" because he stayed behind to help the victim. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_school_nutrition ap/20100208/us_school_nutrition AP politics Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:53:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_school_nutrition"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.394e16ac10254ac48793dc138a6818f1.farm_scene_farm_to_school_mr207.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=03z8udJ9jE2g8AOIekiMxw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="This Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 photo shows students eating lunch at Sharon Elementary School in Sharon, Vt. The school is part of the national Farm to School program, aimed at getting healthier meals in school cafeterias and improving student nutrition. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_school_nutrition"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.394e16ac10254ac48793dc138a6818f1.farm_scene_farm_to_school_mr207.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=03z8udJ9jE2g8AOIekiMxw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="This Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 photo shows students eating lunch at Sharon Elementary School in Sharon, Vt. The school is part of the national Farm to School program, aimed at getting healthier meals in school cafeterias and improving student nutrition. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_farm_scene_farm_to_school ap/20100208/us_farm_scene_farm_to_school AP business Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:13:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_farm_scene_farm_to_school"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.6b015cd53dbc459eb82dfb97af4110e2.farm_scene_farm_to_school_mr202.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=9PLBj56KZahx4hVH9yoahg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="This Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 photo shows students preparing a vegetable soup at Sharon Elementary School in Sharon, Vt. The school is part of the national Farm to School program, aimed at getting healthier meals in school cafeterias and improving student nutrition. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)" border="0" /></a>AP - The third and fourth graders at Sharon Elementary know where the veggies in their soup come from because they've visited the farms. They know the nutritional value of the carrots, onions and cabbage because they've studied them in class, and they know how they're grown because they've nurtured them in raised beds out back.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_farm_scene_farm_to_school"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.6b015cd53dbc459eb82dfb97af4110e2.farm_scene_farm_to_school_mr202.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=9PLBj56KZahx4hVH9yoahg--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="This Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 photo shows students preparing a vegetable soup at Sharon Elementary School in Sharon, Vt. The school is part of the national Farm to School program, aimed at getting healthier meals in school cafeterias and improving student nutrition. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_bi_ge/us_super_bowl_financial_education ap/20100205/us_super_bowl_financial_education AP business Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:57:10 GMT AP - There's no denying that the Super Bowl is all about money, and lots of it. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_hi_te/us_myspace_school_parody ap/20100205/us_myspace_school_parody AP technology Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:13:57 GMT AP - Federal appellate judges wrestling with whether schools can discipline students for Internet speech posted offsite reached different rulings Thursday in two Pennsylvania cases. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_re_us/us_school_dollars ap/20100204/us_school_dollars AP us Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:16:15 GMT AP - The state of Washington is not fulfilling its constitutional duty to fully pay for basic public education, a King County judge ruled Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_re_us/us_university_fundraising ap/20100203/us_university_fundraising AP us Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:00:50 GMT AP - Charitable contributions to colleges and universities plummeted an average 11.9 percent nationwide in 2009, the steepest drop in at least three decades, according to a new report. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_re_us/us_toy_gun_washington_school ap/20100203/us_toy_gun_washington_school AP us Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:00:14 GMT AP - The initial 911 report from the Vancouver, Wash., elementary school was alarming: shots fired at a school playground. That had police and SWAT officers scrambling Tuesday morning &mdash; only to find the weapon was a bright orange cap gun. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_school_assaults ap/20100202/us_haiti_school_assaults AP us Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:37:08 GMT AP - A Colorado man charged with sexually abusing boys at a school he founded for street children in Haiti pleaded not guilty Tuesday to new charges that raise the number of alleged victims to 18. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_us/us_school_scandal ap/20100202/us_school_scandal AP us Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:14:00 GMT AP - A former New York school superintendent who admitted taking part in the theft of $11.2 million from a Long Island school district has been released from prison. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100202/ts_csm/277450 csm/20100202/277450 The Christian Science Monitor topstories Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:07:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - The Obama administration envisions big changes for No Child Left Behind. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20100201/pl_bloomberg/avjmz91ce5nk bloomberg/20100201/avjmz91ce5nk Bloomberg politics Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:20:21 GMT Bloomberg - Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration will propose a new system for how states measure the success or failure of their public schools as part of an overhaul of the 2002 No Child Left Behind law. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_education ap/20100201/us_obama_education AP business Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:25:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_education"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.fd2240bbf3bd4c4ea23535abefd0ebab.obama_whcd119.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=2ndFXAneAwFL69.pVb_2qA--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="President Barack Obama speaks at a Black History Month event celebrating the music of the Civil Rights Movement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama is proposing to overhaul the No Child Left Behind education law, replacing the school accountability system that has slapped a failing label on more than a third of schools, including many that made big gains but just missed their annual targets.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_education"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.fd2240bbf3bd4c4ea23535abefd0ebab.obama_whcd119.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=2ndFXAneAwFL69.pVb_2qA--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama speaks at a Black History Month event celebrating the music of the Civil Rights Movement in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/us_nm/us_obama_budget_education nm/20100201/us_obama_budget_education Reuters us Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:23:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/us_nm/us_obama_budget_education"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100201/i/r3813358574.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_qK1a58oCjNFeEvsN5Goyw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama meets with third and fourth grade students at Viers Mill Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, October 19, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed" border="0" /></a>Reuters - President Barack Obama proposed an overhaul of how the government funds education in his budget proposal on Monday as part of a "new vision" for elementary and secondary schools.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/us_nm/us_obama_budget_education"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100201/i/r3813358574.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=_qK1a58oCjNFeEvsN5Goyw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama meets with third and fourth grade students at Viers Mill Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, October 19, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100201/ts_nm/us_usa_states_education nm/20100201/us_usa_states_education Reuters topstories Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:02:06 GMT Reuters - As the U.S. government discusses reauthorizing a sweeping education law and prepares to distribute billions of stimulus dollars for school reform, state legislatures are sending it a strong message: hands off. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_re_us/us_shortened_school_year ap/20100131/us_shortened_school_year AP us Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:53:45 GMT AP - The third-to-fifth graders ran up to their instructor clutching a list of words using the letters B, D, and E. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_re_us/us_school_board_member_slain ap/20100131/us_school_board_member_slain AP us Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:29:58 GMT AP - The lead investigator in the slaying in Mexico of a Southern California school board member has been killed in an ambush, authorities said Saturday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_en_ot/us_music_grammywatch_university_band ap/20100129/us_music_grammywatch_university_band AP entertainment Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:24:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_en_ot/us_music_grammywatch_university_band"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100129/capt.df446b3bf1b54b9e9c1766cff87aadef.music_grammywatch_university_band_nyet551.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6LOOf1Z5d4Eg8ko2wVswhQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this Jan. 25, 2010 photo, Chris Mike, a member of the University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band, plays the baritone saxophone during rehearsal in Denton, Texas. The band's latest album, 'Lab 2009,' is in contention for two Grammy awards. (AP Photo by Amy Gutierrez)" border="0" /></a>AP - The big sound emanating from a performance room on the University of North Texas' campus starting at 1 p.m. doesn't just come from any band.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_en_ot/us_music_grammywatch_university_band"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100129/capt.df446b3bf1b54b9e9c1766cff87aadef.music_grammywatch_university_band_nyet551.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=6LOOf1Z5d4Eg8ko2wVswhQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Jan. 25, 2010 photo, Chris Mike, a member of the University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band, plays the baritone saxophone during rehearsal in Denton, Texas. The band's latest album, 'Lab 2009,' is in contention for two Grammy awards. (AP Photo by Amy Gutierrez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)