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International News Round-up
(October 26-31, 2009)
Bill Gates makes big push on education reform
(MSN.com 10/25/2009 AP)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education.
Majority of Britons say creationism should be taught in schools
(The Daily mail 10/26/2009)
More than half the British population believes children should be told about creationism - the belief that God created the world - in school science lessons, poll figures reveal.
Student-run group camps out for climate change legislation
(Boston Globe 10/26/2009 Christopher Girard)
The Leadership Campaign, a Massachusetts-based student-run group focused on the environment, camps out at Boston Common to talk about climate change.
Many teachers 'face false claims'
(BBC News 10/26/2009)
Nearly 30% of school staff has been the subject of a false allegation of misconduct by a pupil, a survey by a teaching union suggests.
College enrollment set record in 2008
(New York Times 10/29/2009)
Rise in U.S. college enrollment was driven almost entirely by a surge in students attending community colleges, reports say.
Foreign language teaching is in decline
(The Independent 10/30/2009 Richard Garner)
A new poll shows a drop in the number of trainee primary school teachers specializing in languages.
Nearly 14,000 schools closed due to influenza
(Breitbart.com 10/28/2009 AP)
The Japanese health ministry reports that 13,964 educational facilities, including schools and kindergartens, cancelled some or all of their classes due to influenza infections in the week from Oct. 18 to 24, up sharply from 8,534 reported a week earlier.
(Published 3 November 2009, Smart Communications Inc.)
