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Charter schools will have a new place to turn for advice next year when members of the D.C. Public Charter School Board start a nonprofit organization that will research how the schools can best be run.
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is changing its privacy settings to give users control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages.
HOLDING BACK: Facebook is altering its privacy settings to make it easier for its 350 million users to decide who can see the posts, photos and other information they share on the site.
Following through on plans announced a few months ago, Facebook is rolling out changes on Wednesday to its privacy settings intended to make them simpler to adjust and understand by its 350 million end users.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) - Prince William County Police say a community college student was aiming for his professor when he fired a rifle in a classroom full of students.
The New Westminster school board decided to postpone Tuesday's capital project information session and workshop because of lack of interest. Just 30 people had pre-registered by noon Tuesday, said school board chair James Janzen. "So it wasn't worth it," he said. "I'm disappointed but we're not going to put it on if we can't reach a large group of people." According to school district consultant ...
FACEBOOK has begun calling on users to get a better grip on their online privacy by dictating who sees what in profiles at the world's leading social networking service.
In addition, KISS member Paul Stanley will go from classroom to classroom gathering students to become face-painted members of a KISS mini army.
Facebook, the world's No.1 Internet social network, took a step toward opening up parts of its site to outsiders Wednesday by introducing more options for user's privacy settings.
One Clermont County woman is opening her home to help raise money for the Yellow Ribbon Support Center's Let Us Never Forget Scholarship Fund.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — In a scene reminiscent of other school shootings, a Northern Virginia Community College teacher spotted a weapon and ducked to avoid gunfire. Students ran from the classroom building while others barricaded themselves inside, piling desks in front of doors.
ANDERSON, Ind. — A proposal to consolidate Anderson's two high schools is drawing widespread opposition in the central Indiana city. Hundreds of opponents jammed a School Board meeting Tuesday night, a week before the board is expected to vote on the plan.
Both the NCAA and the University of Minnesota last month boasted of improved student-athletes’ graduation rates. However, a closer look shows that this “significant achievement” does not apply to the school’s Black student-athletes.
BAGUIO CITY - The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC) is encouraging schools to include in their curriculum financial literacy programs aimed to entice the youth to learn saving. read more
The University of St. Francis will add men's tennis for the 2010-11 school year. Men's tennis previously was the only sport in the Mid-Central College Conference that USF didn't field a team. USF already has a women's tennis team.
The #1 social network has begun rolling out long-promised changes. Beware of the "everyone" option.
Facebook began giving its users more control over their personal information Wednesday today following a damning report from the Canadian privacy watchdog that slammed the social networking giant for sharing too much.
ROXBURY TWP. – An ethics complaint lodged by one school board member against another has resulted in an acquittal of the accused, and a hefty fine for the accuser.
NEW YORK — Facebook is changing its privacy settings to give users control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages. Beginning Wednesday, the networking Web site is taking the rare step of requiring its more than 350 million users to review and update their privacy settings.
Nine Walkerville preschool students may be forced to stay home the rest of the school year due to state budget cuts. Recent state cut backs are forcing the district to reduce its 25-student preschool program to 16, said Walkerville Public Schools Board of Education Trustee Jay Conklin.
The Portage Public Schools Board of Education would accept proposed concessions by its teachers union to avoid the layoffs of 53 teachers and staff, a board member said Wednesday.
Wow, just in case you actually thought there was a big consensus ...
Over at the National Journal education blog they’re debating ...
The lede of this piece might catch your eye but the entire thing ...
Seems like this Troops to Teachers story appears in a big paper ...
