Feds probe Mass. special needs school over use of electric shock therapy

Feds probe Mass. special needs school

BOSTON — The U.S. Justice Department has begun a review of whether the use of electric shock therapy by a Massachusetts special needs school violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Co-winners named after step show result causes controversy, sponsor cites scoring discrepancy

Step show prize to be shared after Internet stir

Wal-Mart to push suppliers to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions

Wal-Mart to push suppliers to cut emissions

Teachers to appeal mass firings at chronically troubled Central Falls, RI, high school

Teachers to appeal mass firings at RI high school

Villanova-Syracuse game a big hit at the box office; NCAA record crowd of 34,616

Syracuse, Villanova attract record crowd

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — When seventh-ranked Villanova enters the Carrier Dome for Saturday night’s game against No. 4 Syracuse, the Wildcats will be caught in an orange wave bigger than any other in the building’s basketball history.

Military spouses angered that career education grants abruptly suspended by Defense Dept.

Military spouses angry that DoD halts job grants

Arkansas House and Senate recess first-ever fiscal session; will meet March 4 for adjournment

Arkansas House, Senate recess fiscal session

Himachal to check school dropouts

SHIMLA - In a bid to check school dropouts, the Himachal Pradesh government Thursday decided to set up school management committees to ensure involvement of parents and teachers to motivate more children to join schools.

Badal assures jobs to protesting trainee teachers

CHANDIGARH - Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday urged agitating unemployed trainee teachers to give up their protest and assured them the government will initiate measures to fill up vacant posts.

As EU seeks to appease bond market, painful cutbacks make some fear renewed recession

European Union pushes cuts for indebted countries

Pa. student who filed webcam spying suit says school administrator’s denial falls short

Student: School webcam spying denial falls short

Government gives apex court roadmap on deemed university issue

NEW DELHI - The central government has told the Supreme Court that while it proposes to divest sub-standard colleges of the deemed university tag after giving each of them a hearing, the students of such institutions would be accommodated elsewhere.

Prosecutors open investigations in German Catholic school abuse scandal

Legal investigations begin in German abuse scandal

‘Over 47 percent Class 5 students cannot read Class 2 books’

NEW DELHI - Portraying a poor picture of the quality of elementary education in the country, India’s annual the Economic Survey said Thursday that over 47 percent children studying in Class 5 cannot even read Class 2 textbooks and the trend has worsened in the last two years.

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