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Teach for America Answers Obama's Education Call
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsPresident Barack Obama's recent State of the Union address called for more young people to join the effort to close the vast achievement gap that exists in the United States. It turns out that Wendy Kopp, CEO and founder of Teach for America, had been ready for the president's call for 20 years. For two decades, Teach for America has been recruiting elite college graduates to work as teachers in low-income communities that face educational challenges. Stephen Lovekin, Getty Images Teach for America CEO Wendy Kopp, seen here in 2008, says, "We need transformational change" in ...
Mob Overturns Ambulance After Chinese Students Die in Crash
By not in system - AOL NewsAt least 14 children on their way to school in central China's Hunan province were killed this morning when the vehicle carrying them ran off a fog-covered road and plunged into a creek, according to news reports. An angry crowd then turned over an ambulance after it was slow in arriving to the scene, where nine children died immediately after the crash, according to an Agence France-Presse photographer. Four others died after they were taken to a hospital. Another child who had been reported missing was found dead, the Xinhua news agency reported, according to CNN. It's not clear whether ...
Among Young Voters, Obama's Campaign Magic Fades
By Peter W. Fulham - Politics DailyIn the days after Barack Obama was elected in 2008, Kevin Hollinshead hoped the president would become a leader reminiscent of Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- capable of steering the country out of a massive economic crisis while taking on his sharpest critics. But Hollinshead, a senior at Colorado State University, now feels that the president has ceded too much to his Republican opposition and failed to live up to the ideals of his campaign. "They've decided that he's public enemy No. 1, and they'll do whatever it takes to ruin him," Hollinshead said of Republicans in Congress. "And rather ...
Three Arrested in Deadly LA School Bus Crash
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Oct.26) - Three young men in a black BMW ran a red light, hit and killed a pedestrian and broadsided a school bus that flipped on its side Monday, leaving the bus driver and 18 high school students injured, authorities said. The three fled on foot from the busy intersection in Boyle Heights, east of downtown Los Angeles. Two of them - the 17-year-old driver and a 14-year-old passenger - were caught by a construction worker, who held them until police arrived and detained them, California Highway Patrol spokesman Miguel Luevano said. Jason Redman, AP Los Angeles ...
School Bus and Car Collide in LA; Pedestrian Killed
By Carl Franzen - AOL News
(Oct. 25) -- A car struck and killed a pedestrian this afternoon and then slammed into a school bus in the center of Los Angeles, causing the bus to overturn, witnesses said. A total of 18 students aboard the bus were taken to hospitals with noncritical injuries, police said. "The scene is still active," Los Angeles police Sgt. Andrew Rea told Surge Desk at 5:15 p.m. local time. The bus was carrying 54 students from Roosevelt High School, who were returning from the East Los Angeles Skills Center, KFSN ABC 30 reported. Sponsored Links Police were investigating the wreck, but passengers ...
Zero-Tolerance Laws Eased, But Schools Still Tough
By Karen Schwartz - AOL News
(Oct. 16) -- Concerned that students have been expelled for using Listerine or playing cops and robbers at recess, a handful of states have backed away from the zero-tolerance laws that required such harsh discipline. But the new laws -- which in most instances require school districts to consider disciplinary action on a case-by-case basis -- may not be having much of an effect, some observers say. Consider the case of Samuel Burgos, who brought a clear plastic toy gun to Pembroke Pines Charter Elementary School West in Miramar, Fla., last year when he was a 7-year-old second grader. When ...
Student Kills Himself After Sex Webcast; 2 Charged
By David Lohr - AOL News
(Sept. 29) -- Two Rutgers University students have been arrested on charges they illegally streamed video of a classmate's gay sexual encounter over the Internet. The alleged victim in the case committed suicide, his family confirmed. According to Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan, freshmen students Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, N.J., and Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton, N.J., have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for using a camera to view and transmit a live image of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi on Sept. 19. Clementi, a resident of Ridgewood, N.J., was a ...
Opinion: What Makes a Great Teacher?
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- John Dewey once said that what the best and wisest parents want for their children should be what we want for all children. This statement translates into "I want my child to have a great teacher!" All educational research and all parents know the quality of the teacher impacts the success of students at school. What do the best teachers do? One of the best sources to answer this question is students because they know what works for them. And what do they say? We looked into it and found that the top things students say the best teachers do are: Know us personally, our ...
Four Killed in Another Attack at a Chinese School
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Aug. 4) -- A man waving a huge knife barged into a kindergarten in eastern China and stabbed to death three children and a teacher, Chinese media reported today. It's the latest in a string of school killings that have frightened the nation and spurred communist officials to stifle news reports amid public outrage. The rampage took place in the town of Zibo in Shandong Province and is believed to be the first major school stabbing since Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged to end such attacks. In May, Wen ordered schools across China again to double security, and he promised to address social ...
Opinion: A Criminal Oversight in College Background Checks
By Mark Grabowski - AOL News(July 13) -- Posting a scandalous photo on Facebook could get you rejected from the college of your choice. But there's a good chance a rape conviction won't. Only 4 percent of colleges conduct criminal background checks on students, and 36 percent of schools don't even require self-disclosure of crimes, according to a new survey by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. In contrast, 26 percent of admissions offices use search engines to research applicants, and 21 percent use social networking sites, a 2007 study found. Admissions officers claim they ...
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