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11 Top Italian Cooking Schools 

Aug 25, 07 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Savor that Italian vacation by taking a short course at one these cooking schools, highly recommended by Food & Wine magazine:
  1. Cucina con Vista, Florence
  2. Castello Banfi–Il Borgo, Montalcino
  3. Italian Food Artisans, Montepulciano
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food • travel • culinary school • cooking • Italy • list • school • cooking class

Princeton Wins
College Rankings
for 8th Year

Annual survey comes under increasing fire for favoring the rich

Aug 17, 07 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facing a barrage of criticism, the latest college rankings from U.S. News and World Report were released today, and Princeton is still No.1, followed by Harvard and Yale. The editors have tried to address complaints about the survey's bias toward schools that educate the well-to-do and the well-prepared.... More »

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education • Princeton University • Yale University • college admissions • college rankings • school • college • university • Harvard

Principal Fired for Staff Santeria Rites

Candles, incense and chicken blood didn't
earn A's from bosses

Aug 8, 07 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A New York City public school principal's head is on the chopping block for forcing teachers to participate in spiritual cleansing rituals using chicken blood and incense, the AP reports. The principal paid another woman to perform several ceremonies practiced by followers of  Santeria, a Caribbean blend of  Christianity and... More »

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education • New York City • Manhattan • religion • school • Santeria • ritual • teacher

Oliver Hill,
Civil Rights Crusader, Dies

Virginia lawyer played key role in Brown v. Board of Education

Aug 6, 07 3:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Oliver Hill, a Virginia civil rights crusader whose work contributed to the Brown v. Board of Education decision against school segregation, died yesterday at 100. Described as "last lion of the civil-rights movement," Hill was a survivor of D-Day's Omaha Beach landing, and close friends with Justice Thurgood... More »

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race • obituary • school • death • lawyer • civil rights • Thurgood Marshall • Oliver Hill • segregation • integration • US Supreme Court

Schools Cater to Tech-Enamored Students

New teaching, learning styles may spell
an end to lectures

Jul 31, 07 6:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - An increasing number of colleges and universities are using new Web applications to engage a generation of students eager to collaborate—and strut their stuff—on the Internet. Blogs, wikis, and other collaborative tools are being used as more than just empty Web 2.0 buzzwords, CNET reports; they allow... More »

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education • technology • Internet • Web 2.0 • school • college • university • web • Dartmouth • student • professor • mathematics • Texas A&M

High Court Limits Use of Race in School Assignments

Choice plans found unconstitutional

Jun 28, 07 12:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Taking race into consideration in school assignments is unconstitutional because it violates students' rights under the equal protection clause, the Supreme Court ruled today in a landmark decision that could cause upheaval in K-12 education. The decision, by an increasingly familiar 5-4 vote, invalidates diversity plans in Louisville and Seattle... More »

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John Roberts • race • equality • discrimination • Louisville • school • Seattle • student • US Supreme Court

Top 10 US HS Athletic Programs

Jun 19, 07 9:59 PM CDT
(Newser) -
  1. Jesuit (Portland, Ore.)
  2. DeMatha (Hyattsville, Md.)
  3. Warren Central (Indianapolis)
  4. Miami (Fla.) Northwestern
  5. Archbishop Mitty (San Jose, Calif.)
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sports • high school • list • athlete • school • athletics • teenager

Phony Student Nabbed at Stanford

Impostor caught after entire year of
living in dorms

May 25, 07 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Stanford University officials evicted an 18-year old student  this week after discovering she was not enrolled at the school—despite living in several dorms, buying textbooks, and appearing to study for exams, the Stanford Daily reports. Azia Kim masqueraded as a sophomore majoring in human biology for eight months before... More »

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Stanford • college admissions • Stanford University • school • Azia Kim • imposter

EU Universities Could Lose Ground to Asia

Old-world schools hear footsteps from China, India in college rankings

May 21, 07 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Top-tier European universities like Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne will fall behind competitors in China and India within 10 years, the EU's education commissioner warns. The Times of London reports underfunding and outmoded curricula could cost the mossier Western schools their international reputations, and international enrollments with them. More »

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China • education • India • European Union • Europe • Asia • higher education • school • university

African Colleges Fail
a Generation

Underfunded and overcrowded, promising universities begin to buckle

May 19, 07 9:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Once a beacon of hope for the world's poorest continent, Africa's colleges are collapsing under the weight of too many students and too little cash, the Sunday Times reports. At Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, students are packed into overcrowded dorms and classrooms, labs are dilapidated, and qualified teachers... More »

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education • Africa • school • college • Dakar • student

(Newser) - An 18-year-old Australian is over $800,000 richer today after a court ruled that his life was "all but destroyed" by school bullying. Australia's Supreme Court said the public school system "grossly failed" Ben Cox when it didn't stop an older student from repeatedly physically and verbally abusing... More »

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Australia • children • school • bullying • Ben Cox • elementary school • teenager

Cho's Macabre Plays Warned Of Violence

Playwriting class submissions cast their writer as "school shooter" type

Apr 18, 07 9:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ian MacFarlane, a former classmate of Seung Cho, blogs on AOL about two plays written by the Virginia Tech killer for a writing class. The short pieces, along with other compositions, writes MacFarlane, were "like something out of a nightmare," imagining bizarre murders and exuding an obsession with... More »

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Virginia Tech • Seung-Hui Cho • school • violence • school shooting • Virginia Tech shootings • shooting

Virginia Tech Criticized for Inaction

Two-hour lapse before warning draws outrage from students, parents

Apr 17, 07 8:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Virginia Tech prepares for today's memorial service for the 30 students  and two teachers killed in two shootings yesterday, the school faces mounting criticism for not doing more to alert the campus between the attacks. " "The university has blood on their hands because of their lack of... More »

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Virginia Tech • murder • school • school shooting • Virginia Tech shootings

Police Know V.T. Gunman’s ID

Apr 17, 07 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police have a preliminary ID on the man who gunned down 30 people at Virginia Tech, but they aren't ready to release it, CNN reports. They won’t even confirm that the same gunman pulled the trigger at two the sites across campus, two hours apart, in the largest mass... More »

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Virginia Tech • murder • school • school shooting • Virginia Tech shootings • shooting

32 STUDENTS DEAD AT VA TECH

Apr 16, 07 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - At least 32 students are dead after a gunman opened fire on a Virginia Tech dormitory and classroom building this morning. The shooter is dead; two dozen other students were wounded in the attack. “This place is in a state of panic,” one student told CNN; others report... More »

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Virginia Tech • murder • school • death • school shooting • Columbine school massacre • Virginia Tech shootings

Students Sue for Homework

Apr 10, 07 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Four teenage students are suing an antiplagiarism website for the rights to their schoolwork, arguing that they were forced to turn over original work without compensation, the Christian Science Monitor reports. When their school adopted an antiplagiarism service called Turnitin, students were required to submit essays to be stored and... More »

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education • property rights • Turnitin • plagiarism • intellectual property • school • lawsuit

Kids Get Graded on Obesity

Though Controversial, BMI Screenings for Children Increasingly Common

Apr 9, 07 12:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - School nurses in six states are now sending out "obesity report cards,"  giving parents the results of mandatory Body Mass Index screenings of their children. With the number of overweight kids quadrupling over the last 40 years, advocates aim to detect health issues early. But not all... More »

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obesity • health • childhood obesity • Body Mass Index • health screenings • fat • children • school • elementary school

Islamic Scholars Need U.S.

Freedom fosters faith and scholarship

Apr 6, 07 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraq war may be unforgiveable, but America has given Islam a priceless gift: a haven for Muslim scholarship, says a professor at the University of Deleware. "Muslim scholars have always maintained that true happiness comes from the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge," writes M. A. Muqtedar Khan.... More »

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Iraq • education • Islam • America • school • scholarship • University of Delaware • Muslim • Iraq war

NYC Pays Kids To Go to School

Cash bonuses to poor families for attendance, grades, holding jobs

Mar 30, 07 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forget gold stars: poor New York City kids who attend class regularly or improve grades will get cash rewards. Mayor Michael Bloomberg tells the New York Times the program, which could net a low-income family up to $5,000 a year, is akin to sales bonuses in the private sector. More »

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education • families • New York City • children • Michael Bloomberg • school

Day Care Kids Learn to Act Up

Study finds preschoolers in day care

Mar 26, 07 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Day care centers enlarge kids' vocabularies--and teach them how to act up, too, says a study that’s followed 1,300 children from birth through 6th grade. Although parental guidance and genes were the strongest predictor of behavior, who attended day care as preschoolers were slightly more likely to be... More »

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education • child care • children • behavior • school • learning • daycare

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