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UC Irvine professor vowed in emails to kill 200 students

UC Irvine Professor

A UC Irvine professor accused of setting a
series of fires following his son's suicide
wrote in emails that he planned to get a
dozen machine guns and shoot at least 200
students at his son's high school and then
kill himself.

 

Big Hong Kong protest assails Communist Party ‘brainwashing’

Hong Kong / China

Tens of thousands of protesters paraded through Hong Kong on Sunday, waving placards denouncing “brainwashing” by China’s Communist Party and calling for the scrapping of plans for “national education” courses in local schools. The protest, organized by teachers, parents and student groups as well as local political organizations hostile to Beijing’s one-party system, demonstrated deep opposition to the introduction of classes that aim to boost knowledge of and attachment to China in this freewheeling former British colony of 7.2 million.

 

'No God' comment adds up to no job for fired math teacher

'No God' comment adds up to no job for fired math teacher

A math teacher was fired from an Iowa Catholic school because she joined an atheist website and noted online that she didn't believe in God. ...

 

Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Standards for Education

Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Standards for Education

Culminating a year’s work, a panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents released a set of proposed common academic standards on Wednesday. The standards, posted on the panel’s web site, lay out the panel’s vision of what American public school students should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation.

 

All educators fired at underperforming RI school

All educators fired at underperforming RI school

A Rhode Island school district has voted to fire all the teachers at an underperforming school. The Central Falls School Committee voted Tuesday evening to fire every educator at Central Falls High School, including teachers ...

 

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