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Texas education board's social studies vote may have wide impact
Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.
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Pop Quiz: Would You Pass New Education Standards?
"World News" provides a pop quiz using the proposed national core standards for K-12 education. K–12 - Organizations - Standards - Education - Politics
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Final Glance: Education companies
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top education companies were mixed at the close of trading: Apollo Group rose $1.23 or 2.0 percent, to $63.36. Career Education fell $.17 or .6 percent, to $29.92. DeVry rose $.02 or percent, to $65.80. Strayer Education rose $3.84 or 1.6 percent, to $241.83.
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Guidelines for U.S. Classrooms: States Closer to National Education Standards
ABC's World News reports on new national education standards issued by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.
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Labour 'ahead on education'
A BBC Newsnight poll suggests that the Conservatives are failing to win over voters unsatisfied with Labour's record on education.
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Draft National Education Standards Unveiled
Schools took another big step toward an elusive goal: establishing basic education standards that could apply to nearly every student in the US. The draft proposal released Wednesday tries to unify what students need to know about English and math at each grade level. But supporters of the effort still face skepticism.
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Texas Education Agency lashes out at Fox for 'highly inaccurate' reports
The Texas Education Agency lashed out Wednesday at the Fox Network for "highly inaccurate" reports about the State Board of Education and its work on social studies curriculum standards.
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Midday Glance: Education companies
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top education companies are mixed at noon: Apollo Group rose $.97 or 1.6 percent, to $63.10. Career Education fell $.09 or .3 percent, to $30.00. DeVry fell $.32 or .5 percent, to $65.46. Strayer Education rose $4.91 or 2.1 percent, to $242.90.
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The World's Billionaires
Carlos Slim Helu takes the No. 1 spot on Forbes' annual list of the world's richest as a record 164 billionaires return to the ranking amid the global economic recovery.
Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man
Carlos Slim Helu takes No. 1 spot on Forbes World's Billionaires list as a record 164 10-figure titans return to the ranking amid the global economic recovery.
Mexican mogul Slim edges out Gates as world's richest person
Forbes magazine released its annual list of the world's richest people Wednesday, and for only the second time since 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates' name was not at the top.
Women's World Cup Downhill Results
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) -- Results Wednesday of the final women's World Cup downhill of the season: 1. Maria Riesch , Germany , 1 minute, 34.82 seconds. 2. Lindsey Vonn , United States , 1:35.30. 3. Anja Paerson , Sweden , 1:35.95. 4. Nadja Kamer , Switzerland , 1:36.04. 5. Julia Mancuso , United States, 1:36.13. 6. Johanna Schnarf , Italy , 1:36.17. 7. Nadia Styger , Switzerland, 1 ...
Men's World Cup Downhill Results
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) -- Results Wednesday from the final men's World Cup downhill of the season: 1. Carlo Janka , Switzerland , 1 minute, 58.45 seconds. 2. Mario Scheiber , Austria , 1:58.47. 3. Patrick Kueng , Switzerland, 1:58.52. (tie) Erik Guay , Canada , 1:58.52. 5. Hans Grugger , Austria, 1:58.56. 6. Werner Heel , Italy , 1:58.58. 7. Manuel Osborne-Paradis , Canada, 1:58.60 ...
Mexico's Slim named 'world's richest' person
Mexico's Carlos Slim, the son of an immigrant shopkeeper who amassed a $53.5 billion fortune and bought a major stake in the New York Times, became the first person from a developing nation to be named the world's richest person.
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