Rules To Limit Marketing Unhealthy Food In Schools

The proposed rules come on the heels of USDA regulations that are now requiring foods in the school lunch line to be healthier.

Associated Press
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Michelle Obama, Rachel Ray

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even the scoreboards in high school gyms eventually will have to promote good health. Moving beyond the lunch line, new rules that will be proposed Tuesday by the White House and the Agriculture Department would limit marketing of unhealthy foods in schools. They would phase out the advertising of sugary drinks and junk foods

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Cuomo Resumes Funding For Inmates’ College Courses

Governor Andrew Cuomo announces that New York state will again foot the bill for inmates taking college courses, citing studies that show higher education can lower recidivism rates.

Frederick Reese
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Damon Rodriguez raises his arms as he walks down the aisle during his graduation ceremony

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced that the state will resume funding college courses for state prison inmates. While state inmates were eligible for high-school level courses prior to Cuomo’s announcement, eligibility for federal and state college tuition assistance was stripped under Gov. George Pataki’s (R) administration in 1995. Cuomo

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Trend-Starting Texas Drops Algebra II Mandate

After 20 states followed Texas’ lead in requiring algebra II for high school students, the bellwether state is dumping its requirement.

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Policy pop quiz: Does Texas - algebra II = success? The state that started a trend by making high school students tackle algebra II is now abandoning the policy in a move praise by school districts for affording more flexibility. But some policy experts are nervous because nearly 20 states have followed Texas' lead in

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Lawsuit Claims Some Schools Hostile To Native American Students

The public educational system has been discriminating against Native American students by “ignoring or actively affronting” their culture.

Matthew Heller
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** ADVANCE FOR Mildred Quaempts, left, sings in the Sahaptin dialect of the Umatilla tribe before lunch to a headstart class at the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, March 6, 2002. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

LOS ANGELES -- The history of white settlers' contact with the aboriginal natives of Humboldt County, Calif., in the mid-19th century is as bloody as any of the wars over white colonization of the Great Plains, culminating in the Indian Island Massacre of about 100 members of the Wiyot tribe in February 1860. More than 150 years later, that

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Diligent Asian Students Dominate Global Exam

In China, students’ test results rank higher than the United States, where students failed to rank in the top 20 in any academic category.

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BEIJING (AP) — As a ninth-grader, Shanghai's Li Sixin spent more than three hours on homework a night and took tutorials in math, physics and chemistry on the weekends. When she was tapped to take an exam last year given to half a million students around the world, Li breezed through it. "I felt the test was just easy," said Li, who was a

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College-Success Programs Help Low-Income Students Thrive

It’s a “fundamental injustice,” that low-income children struggle to get to college and is “not fair to those students and is not the right thing for our country.”

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

A new study from researchers at Harvard University found that the surest way out of poverty is for a person to obtain a four-year degree. Despite efforts of several college-success organizations to help low-income children enrolled in a four-year accredited college, only 8.3 percent of students from low-income families earn a college degree by the

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