Education
Maine divers search for missing Harvard student
Divers on Monday recovered some clothing belonging to a Massachusetts man who went missing after he was asked to leave a pub while celebrating his upcoming graduation from Harvard Business School, police said. Nathan Bihlmaier, 31, of Cambridge, Mass., was celebrating with two classmates when a worker at the waterfront ...
Branstad pushes for teacher leadership programs
Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday his administration will push for ways to place teachers in leadership roles that would also lead to higher pay for those to take on more responsibility, such as master teachers or mentors. He said principals alone can't provide all the leadership needed to improve learning ...
Former WVU football coach Bill Stewart dead at 59
Former West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart, who was hailed as Rich Rodriguez's successor but wound up leaving the school in a messy split, died Monday of what athletic department officials said was an apparent heart attack. He was 59. Stewart's family notified the university and said Stewart had been ...
Charter schools center renamed in Engler's honor
Gov. Rick Snyder has helped Central Michigan University mark the renaming of its charter school center for one of his predecessors, John Engler. Both Republican leaders attended Monday's ceremony in Mount Pleasant marking the renaming of the program as the Gov. John Engler Center for Charter Schools. The Central Michigan ...
Tucson school board president says he'll step down
The president of the Tucson Unified School District's governing board has decided to step down. The Arizona Daily Star (http://bit.ly/K8MqSy) says Mark Stegeman will relinquish his role of president as soon as his successor is appointed, but no later than June 30. Stegeman says reducing his administrative responsibilities will allow ...
SC State names 3 finalists for interim president
Two of South Carolina State University's three candidates to be interim president are from outside the school. The university said Monday the finalists to lead the school until a permanent president can be named are Cheyney University vice president Ivan W. Banks; South Carolina State associate professor Leonard McIntyre; and ...
Michigan House panel changes teacher benefits bill
New teachers in Michigan still would get hybrid pensions under changes made to a teacher benefits bill. The Republican-led state Senate passed a bill last week requiring all teachers hired after July 1 to be in a defined contribution system giving them money toward a 401(k)-style system but no defined ...
NMSU researcher wins grant to map chile genetics
A graduate student researcher at New Mexico State University will head to Asia to help unravel the genetic mysteries of a disease-resistant chile. Horticulture student Greg Reeves has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to spend the summer helping study a chile known as CM334, which grows wild in ...
Senate approves $3.4B school funding formula
The Louisiana Senate on Monday approved a $3.4 billion public school funding formula, which also will help finance Gov. Bobby Jindal's new statewide voucher program to send students to private schools with taxpayer money. The proposal by Sen. Conrad Appel, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, will keep spending per ...
Court won't reduce student's music download fine
A former Boston University student who was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs on the Internet says he will continue fighting the penalty, despite the Supreme Court's refusal Monday to hear his appeal. Joel Tenenbaum, 28, of Providence, Rhode Island, said he's hoping a federal ...
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