Unlike Amazon, Barnes & Noble doesn’t offer streaming services, but the Nook includes preloaded apps from Hulu and Netflix Inc. that allow users to subscribe to stream movies and TV shows.

Only 5 percent of high school English language learners ranked as proficient in either English or math; for black students, 32 percent ranked as proficient in English and 9 percent in math, according to the district’s 2009-10 report card.

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Kelley Williams-Bolar story has sparked rallies, petitions and a robust national dialogue about educational equity.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of students at three troubled middle schools in south and central Los Angeles, which have traditionally had high turnover of teachers and administrators.

To provide a more thorough and fair evaluation of undergraduate applicants to the University of California, the UC Board of Regents’ committee on educational policy today (Jan. 19) endorsed a resolution calling for the use of single-score, individualized holistic review of each applicant as the expected admissions method at all UC campuses. Holistic review – [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO _The next generation of University of California employees will have to work longer to earn pensions and other retirement benefits. The UC system’s governing Board of Regents on Monday approved a plan raising the minimum retirement age for most employees hired after July 1, 2013 from 50 to 55. The measure also ups [...]

According to Mark Rosenbaum, Chief Counsel of the ACLU of Southern California, this is a historic settlement that puts an end to the pay-to-learn system.

According to the lawsuit, black, Latino and Native American students make up about one-quarter of the freshmen enrolled at UC’s nine undergraduate campuses even though they comprise nearly half of all public high school graduates.

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Former Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson, the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Special Representative on Haiti’s Reconstruction will be the featured speaker.

The report listed 10 countries at the bottom of the education list, all but Haiti are in Africa. In addition to Somalia, the others are Eritrea, Comoros, Ethiopia, Chad, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Liberia.