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- Parents Defend School’s Use of Shock Therapy
Category: Education
Publish Date: 12-24-2007 06:51 PM -0800
New York State officials trying ban the use of shock treatments have found a large obstacle in their paths: the parents of students who are given the shocks.[more]
- Georgia School Melds a World of Differences
Category: Education
Publish Date: 12-24-2007 03:13 PM -0800
At an unusual school outside Atlanta, more than half the 380 students are refugees from some 40 countries.[more]
- Democrats Make Bush School Act an Election Issue
Category: Education
Publish Date: 12-22-2007 05:04 PM -0800
Criticism of the No Child Left Behind Act by Democratic presidential contenders is endangering its renewal.[more]
- Goldman Is Buying Stake in a Troubled Student-Loan Company
Category: Education
Publish Date: 12-21-2007 08:47 PM -0800
Goldman Sachs agreed to buy a $260.5 million stake in the First Marblehead Corporation, shoring up the troubled student-loan company and sending its stock soaring.[more]
- For a Top-Tier University, There’s Now Room to Get Even Better
Category: Education
Publish Date: 12-20-2007 11:45 PM -0800
The New York City Council’s approval of a rezoning plan that clears the way for the expansion in Harlem will still not put Columbia into the big leagues on space.[more]
- National Briefing | South: Virginia: Peace Studies Where Gunman Struck
Category: Education
Publish Date: 12-20-2007 09:21 PM -0800
The classroom wing at Virginia Tech where a student gunman killed 30 people and himself and wounded two dozen others in April will be turned into a place to study peace.[more]
- Virginia: Peace Studies Where Gunman Struck
Category: Education
Publish Date: 12-20-2007 09:21 PM -0800
The classroom wing at Virginia Tech where a student gunman killed 30 people and himself and wounded two dozen others in April will be turned into a place to study peace.[more]
- National Briefing | Southwest: Texas: The Return of the Great Debaters?
Category: Education
Publish Date: 12-20-2007 09:21 PM -0800
Denzel Washington is donating $1 million to Wiley College, featured in his new movie “The Great Debaters,” to re-establish its debate team.[more]
- Texas: The Return of the Great Debaters?
Category: Education
Publish Date: 12-20-2007 09:21 PM -0800
Denzel Washington is donating $1 million to Wiley College, featured in his new movie “The Great Debaters,” to re-establish its debate team.[more]
- Sallie Mae Delays Stock Repurchase
Category: Education
Publish Date: 12-20-2007 08:13 PM -0800
SLM, the parent of Sallie Mae, which for years profited from placing large bets on its own stock going up, now faces a possible loss of more than $1 billion.[more]
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