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All posts tagged "schools"

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  Sign of times: 135 schools in S. Korea have no new graduates

  SEJONG (Yonhap) — A total of 135 schools in South Korea lack students to hold graduation ceremonies, caused by the nation’s low birthrate and the gravitation of the population to big cities, government data showed Tuesday. As...

  • Posted January 6, 2016
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  Los Angeles schools reopen after threat

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The latest on schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District reopening after a threat (all times local): 10:05 a.m. A former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism says threatening emails sent...

  • Posted December 16, 2015
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  All Los Angeles Unified schools closed due to ‘credible threat’

  LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Responding to an “electronic threat” that may have been emailed to the district from overseas, all Los Angeles Unified School District campuses were closed today and a massive effort began to search the roughly 900 schools...

  • Posted December 15, 2015
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  Princeton, UCs, Williams top US News & World Report 2016 college rankings

  This year’s US News & World Report’s college rankings are in: Princeton University topped the list at No. 1 for a third year, and the University of California system continued to see victories in public school rankings....

  • Posted September 10, 2015
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  S. Korea lifts blanket closure of schools over MERS

  SUWON, South Korea, June 11 (Yonhap) — The education office in the province where the MERS outbreak in South Korea began said Thursday classes will resume next week at schools it had ordered to shut down temporarily....

  • Posted June 11, 2015
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  [BI] Perfect ACT score couldn’t get this student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford, says it’s because he’s Asian

  With a perfect ACT score and 13 Advanced Placement courses under his belt, Michael Wang applied to seven Ivy League universities and Stanford in 2013. An Asian-American, Wang suspected his race might work against him....

  • Posted June 2, 2015
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  Up to 209 schools closed to prevent spread of MERS

    UPDATED (Yonhap) — Up to 209 schools in South Korea are either closed or plan to shut down temporarily to prevent the spread of a deadly virus that has killed two South Koreans, officials said Tuesday....

  • Posted June 2, 2015
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