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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2722 Education News en-us Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:08:09 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2722 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070829/us_nm/usa_schools_segregation_dc nm/20070829/usa_schools_segregation_dc Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:15:27 GMT Reuters - Public schools in the United States are becoming more racially segregated and the trend is likely to accelerate because of a Supreme Court decision in June, according to report published on Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829/ap_on_re_us/katrina_education_report ap/20070829/katrina_education_report Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:13:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829/ap_on_re_us/katrina_education_report"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070828/capt.d5d3f176706b42738cae549f785bd58a.katrina_anniversary_laah10.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=Imk2Pmb4IFDOU.E.mphMKA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Annise Watson, 7, of New Orleans protects her candle from the wind as she and her mother, Mary Watson, take part in a candlelight vigil on the levee of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans Monday, Aug. 27, 2007. The event marked the upcoming second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)" border="0" /></a>AP - Thousands of Gulf Coast students are still displaced two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, and millions of dollars worth of school reconstruction projects remain unfunded, according to a report released Wednesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829/ap_on_re_us/katrina_education_report"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070828/capt.d5d3f176706b42738cae549f785bd58a.katrina_anniversary_laah10.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=Imk2Pmb4IFDOU.E.mphMKA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="Annise Watson, 7, of New Orleans protects her candle from the wind as she and her mother, Mary Watson, take part in a candlelight vigil on the levee of Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans Monday, Aug. 27, 2007. The event marked the upcoming second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_go_co/education_law ap/20070828/education_law Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:31:09 GMT AP - Lawmakers rewriting the No Child Left Behind law want to loosen testing rules for students with limited English skills. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070828/ap_on_re_us/sat_scores ap/20070828/sat_scores Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:07:44 GMT AP - Combined math and reading SAT scores for the high school class of 2007 were the lowest in eight years &#151; a trend the College Board attributed largely to the good news that a more diverse pool of students is taking the exam. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070826/ap_on_re_us/university_donation ap/20070826/university_donation Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:43:04 GMT AP - The chancellor of Nevada's higher education system says he and his family will no longer consider donating $3 million to one of its schools after a regent's negative comments in his job evaluation. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070825/ap_on_re_us/after_katrina_kids_predict ap/20070825/after_katrina_kids_predict Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:54:11 GMT AP - Since they're going to be the Class of 2015, we asked fifth-graders at the newly opened Langston Hughes Academy Charter School to tell us what their city will look like on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070824/ap_on_re_us/hebrew_charter_school ap/20070824/hebrew_charter_school Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:06:50 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070824/ap_on_re_us/hebrew_charter_school"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070823/capt.d06167202904429eb862712aadea34f6.hebrew_charter_school_mh601.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=82h4vUC8m2pFjR3UwEwnrw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Rabbi Adam Siegel, the director of the new Ben Gamla Charter School in Hollywood, Fla., stands among the towering stacks of school books in this July 2007 photo. Ben Gamla, which is billed as the first publicly funded Hebrew-English school in the county, has been ordered in August 2007 to temporarily suspend Hebrew classes while officials try to determine whether teachers are advocating the Jewish faith. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A charter school has been ordered to temporarily suspend Hebrew classes while officials try to determine whether teachers are advocating the Jewish faith.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070824/ap_on_re_us/hebrew_charter_school"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070823/capt.d06167202904429eb862712aadea34f6.hebrew_charter_school_mh601.jpg?x=130&y=90&sig=82h4vUC8m2pFjR3UwEwnrw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="Rabbi Adam Siegel, the director of the new Ben Gamla Charter School in Hollywood, Fla., stands among the towering stacks of school books in this July 2007 photo. Ben Gamla, which is billed as the first publicly funded Hebrew-English school in the county, has been ordered in August 2007 to temporarily suspend Hebrew classes while officials try to determine whether teachers are advocating the Jewish faith. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_on_re_us/back_to_school_authenticity ap/20070822/back_to_school_authenticity Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:33:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_on_re_us/back_to_school_authenticity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070822/capt.4636429070534363ac08f5432e67024f.back_to_school_authenticity_dcjm102.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=kR6S.qKAHgUzenc5aT.NTw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="Steven Roy Goodman, a college admissions strategist, left, speaks with his client Kayani Bhatt, 17, of Bethesda, Md., and his mother, Anand Bhatt, as they discuss which colleges Kayani would like to apply to in Washington on Monday, July 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)" border="0" /></a>AP - If there's a sign of the times in college admissions, it may be this: Steven Roy Goodman, an independent college counselor, tells clients to make a small mistake somewhere in their application &#151; on purpose.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070822/ap_on_re_us/back_to_school_authenticity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070822/capt.4636429070534363ac08f5432e67024f.back_to_school_authenticity_dcjm102.jpg?x=130&y=84&sig=kR6S.qKAHgUzenc5aT.NTw--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="Steven Roy Goodman, a college admissions strategist, left, speaks with his client Kayani Bhatt, 17, of Bethesda, Md., and his mother, Anand Bhatt, as they discuss which colleges Kayani would like to apply to in Washington on Monday, July 23, 2007. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070821/lf_afp/useducationuniversity afp/20070821/useducationuniversity Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:17:00 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070821/lf_afp/useducationuniversity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070821/capt.sge.msa17.210807165639.photo00.photo.default-512x328.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=CASCkoZ7sXx__gf4W9WOgQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="Two pints of beer. West Virginia University in the United States has been voted the best institute of higher education ... for party animals, an annual survey conducted by the Princeton Review showed Tuesday.(AFP/File/Carl De Souza)" border="0" /></a>AFP - West Virginia University in the United States has been voted the best institute of higher education ... for party animals, an annual survey conducted by the Princeton Review showed Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070821/lf_afp/useducationuniversity"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070821/capt.sge.msa17.210807165639.photo00.photo.default-512x328.jpg?x=130&y=83&sig=CASCkoZ7sXx__gf4W9WOgQ--" align="left" height="83" width="130" alt="photo" title="Two pints of beer. West Virginia University in the United States has been voted the best institute of higher education ... for party animals, an annual survey conducted by the Princeton Review showed Tuesday.(AFP/File/Carl De Souza)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_re_us/rankings_rabblerouser ap/20070820/rankings_rabblerouser Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:47:43 GMT AP - From his haphazard hideyhole of an office in this laid-back West Coast outpost, higher education activist Lloyd Thacker is raising a ruckus about college admissions that's got some of the country's most elite universities paying close attention. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070818/ts_afp/jordaniraqrefugees afp/20070818/jordaniraqrefugees Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:49:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070818/ts_afp/jordaniraqrefugees"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070818/capt.sge.lyt38.180807194724.photo00.photo.default-512x397.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=ZkvAxc4Qb1ifKoL_n9o7gQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="Refugee children from Iraq play in the Red Crescent transit camp in Ruweished near the Jordanian-Iraqi border in 2003. Tens of thousands of children of Iraqi refugees in Jordan will head on Sunday to the kingdom&#39;s already overcrowded state schools amid concerns it will add to the burden on the education system.(AFP/File/Awad Awad)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Tens of thousands of children of Iraqi refugees in Jordan will head on Sunday to the kingdom&#39;s already overcrowded state schools amid concerns it will add to the burden on the education system.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070818/ts_afp/jordaniraqrefugees"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070818/capt.sge.lyt38.180807194724.photo00.photo.default-512x397.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=ZkvAxc4Qb1ifKoL_n9o7gQ--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="photo" title="Refugee children from Iraq play in the Red Crescent transit camp in Ruweished near the Jordanian-Iraqi border in 2003. Tens of thousands of children of Iraqi refugees in Jordan will head on Sunday to the kingdom&#39;s already overcrowded state schools amid concerns it will add to the burden on the education system.(AFP/File/Awad Awad)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP)