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Black Student Sues Minnesota High School for Celebrating 'Wigger Day'
Source: Fox News Posted By: Bailey COS...4664 days ago
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A black student is suing her former Minnesota high school for celebrating "Wednesday Wigger Day," where white students pretended to be black during homecoming week, The Minneapolis Star Tribune....
Parents need to be smart while shopping for back to school
Source: wdbj7.com Posted By: Renee HIC...4664 days ago
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Virginia's sixth annual state sales tax holiday is happening August 5 through 7, and parents will be out in force looking for those back to school bargains. During the three-day tax holiday,....
Source: nypost.com Posted By: Jacky SIL...4665 days ago
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So much for respecting your elders. An 80-year-old veteran Queens public-school teacher with a bum knee says her supervisors purposely saddled her with physically demanding assignments to....
5 ways to be smart about back-to-school shopping
Source: fosters.com Posted By: Lillie SIM...4665 days ago
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Prices on back-to-school items from socks to notebooks are rising 10 percent on average, but there are lots of great deals — and new ways to find them. Stores and manufacturers are redesigning....
US kids get cool back-to-school tech
Source: dawn.com Posted By: Lillie SIM...4672 days ago
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Kids as young as elementary age are looking for smartphone upgrades, while the college set is sussing out the explosion in tablets, said Craig Johnson, president of the retail consulting and....
Middle school boys admit to sex attack
Source: sfgate.com Posted By: Bailey COS...4672 days ago
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Three boys have admitted to sex-related crimes in connection with the assault of two 12-year-old girls during a Redwood City school field trip, a San Mateo County prosecutor said Tuesday. Two....
Homeless high school grad returns to Brooklyn to help kids like himself get to college
Source: nydailynews.com Posted By: Bailey COS...4674 days ago
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Homeless high school grad Orayne Williams has returned to the city after his first year away at college - and he's on a mission to help other street kids get an education. Williams, 19, was....
Thousands of donated books head to Joplin
Source: abcactionnews.c Posted By: Renee HIC...4678 days ago
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Soon after a mile wide tornado devastated Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011, a principal 1200 miles away at Curtis Fundamental Elementary in Dunedin started asking herself questions. "I looked....
German university: Ai Weiwei accepts job offer
Source: sacbee.com Posted By: Hilmer JOS...4686 days ago
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A German university says recently released Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has accepted an offer to join the Berlin institution as a visiting lecturer. Berlin's University of Arts said Wednesday....
Ind. teen found guilty in school shooting
Source: Boston Globe Posted By: Bill 4687 days ago
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A central Indiana teenager who insisted for weeks that he hadn’t intended to kill a former classmate admitted in court yesterday that he had hoped the shots he fired would be fatal, bringing....
Jose Baez: From High School Dropout to Lawyer/Celebrity
Source: blogs.wsj.com Posted By: Barba RAM...4687 days ago
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Casey Anthony’s lawyer Jose Baez has entered the sort of rarefied air occupied by relatively few attorneys. Like the late Johnnie Cochran, after his defense of O.J., Baez now has the opportunity....
Five things you need to know about Office 365 for Education
Source: zdnet.com Posted By: Barba RAM...4691 days ago
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Office 365 may well be a game changer for cloud users of small to medium sized businesses. But little has been said about its younger sister, still in college and ready to fight out to the....
Trial to begin in slaying of gay middle school student
Source: latimesblogs.la Posted By: Bill 4694 days ago
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Opening arguments are set to begin Tuesday in a Chatsworth courtroom in the case of an Oxnard teenager who shot an eighth-grade classmate to death more than three years ago. When he was just....
U.S. Department of Education Awards Kratos $1.7M Contract to Improve Reading Instructional Practices
Source: Market Watch Posted By: Chris BAL...4699 days ago
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. /quotes/zigman/114317/quotes/nls/ktos KTOS -0.51% , a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that it has received a follow-on....
MBA versus specialist programs
Source: coolavenues.com Posted By: Nishel ROZ...4701 days ago
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Despite over 100 years of existence in some form or another, the MBA continues to be one of the most high profile graduate degrees of all time. Ever since its beginning, prospective candidates....
PBS Launches New Digital Media Education Platform
Source: multichannel.co Posted By: Bill 4702 days ago
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PBS has teamed with producing stations WGBH Boston, WNET New York, and KET (Kentucky Educational TV) and 31 other noncommercial stations on a new service, PBSLearningMedia. The digital media....
Online Learning Company Ties With UCLA Extension, CAA
Source: socaltech.com Posted By: Bill 4706 days ago
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A new, venture backed online education company, Encore Career Institute, headed by Steve Poizner, said today that it has linked with the UCLA Extension to offer up professional certificates and....
Source: Washington Post Posted By: Bill 4707 days ago
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Colby Holmes, John Taylor and Matt Price combined on a five-hitter and defending national champion South Carolina tied the record for consecutive NCAA tournament wins with a 7-1 victory over....
Heart of the City: Northwestern
Source: ESPN Posted By: Bill 4709 days ago
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This week, we're taking a closer look at FBS programs located in major markets that typically also have NFL franchises. Two big Ten programs fit this description. First up, Northwestern. School:....
School's refusal to let boy wear cornrow braids is ruled racial discrimination
Source: Guadian.co.uk Posted By: Christy HOL...4712 days ago
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A school's anti-gang ban on unconventional hairstyles has resulted in "unlawful, indirect racial discrimination which is not justified", the high court has ruled. The test case decision is....
