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UK EDUCATION: Top news stories from the BBC OTHER TOP NEWS STORIES IN THIS SECTION UNITED STATES EDUCATION: top news stories You Can Make $1,000/Week From Home... Ad - Consumer-Weekly.com/Jobs The just-released "'School Beverage Guidelines' Final Progress Report"--commissioned by the American Beverage Association (ABA)--finds that America's leading beverage companies have reduced beverage calories in schools by 88 percent.... Radiospace Many Nations Passing U.S. In Education, Expert Says... New York Times Governors, state school superintendents to propose common academic standards... Washington Post Excerpts from National Governors and states proposal on education standards... Washington Post See effective teachers at work... New York Times Firing teachers: First step to reform or useless effort?... USA Today Superman ... in My Classroom?... Chronicle of Higher Education Investing in Innovation... ED.gov Duncan Visits Selma... ED.gov USA Cares Launches Military Lender Education Program... RIS Media The Gamm Presents Educational Series, 3/16 & 5/9... Broadway World Kan. House nixes school consolidation in measure... Education Week Negotiating the American Dream: The Paradox of Aspirations and Achievement among Latino Students and Engagement between their Families and Schools... Journal of Social Issues prem Mexican American High School Students' Ethnic Self-Concepts and Identity... Journal of Social Issues prem STANDARDIZED TESTS: Teachers don't think it's a good way to rate them... USA Today Oren offers to return to Irvine university... JTA U.S. servicemembers deliver smiles to Iraqi school children... Black Anthem Scholar Diane Ravitch: 'We've lost sight' of schools' goal... USA Today School pop campaign in U.S. cuts calories... Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Senators Highlight Rural-State Issues... Education Week Lacking Accountability, Doing Just Fine... Education Week Soft drinks industry slashes calories in US schools... The Independent Clinton Savings Charitable Foundation Donates $6K To Local Schools... Banker & Tradesman Lawrence school chieffaces embezzlement charges... Boston Globe Lawrence school superintendent indicted on embezzlement charges... Boston Globe N.Y.C. School Built Around Unorthodox Use of Time... Education Week PAR: traditional schools can use charters' ideas... Education Week Colleges don't like senior slump in high school... Education Week Va. Senate approves school bills... Education Week Blue Engine: Readying New York High School Students for College... Idealist UK EDUCATION: other news stories You Can Make $1,000/Week From Home... Ad - Consumer-Weekly.com/Jobs UK Muslim schools surpass national GCSE averages... Pakistan Times Scrap GCSEs at 16, says Baroness Morris... Keep Media Scottish universities spend 4m on hospitality... Keep Media Team US picks University of East London as Olympic base... BirminghamWired Scottish News: Tories to unveil school reforms... Rutherglen Reformer Scottish News: Tories unveil trust schools plan... Rutherglen Reformer Ed Balls gives evidence on Government?s education policy... United Kingdom Parliament 10m to get students into sport... BBC Nannies with false documents on Ofsted childcare register... Children & Young People Now More schools likely to be failed... BBC More schools likely to be failed... BBC School gets a big tick from Ofsted... Hutton Cranswick Today UK: Going bananas for bananas at school... Fresh Plaza Pupils' 1,000 boost for centre... Shields Gazette £10m to get students into sport... BBC Frustrated pupils 'bored by their factory schools'... The Independent School gets a big tick from Ofsted... Driffield Times Brown's former spin chief accused of 'stitching up' leadership bid for Ed Balls... Mail Online UK Film aims to tackle homophobic bullying in Scottish schools... Association of Teachers and Lecturers Pupil pens GCSE self-help book... Association of Teachers and Lecturers Baroness: Scrap GCSEs for 16-year-olds... Association of Teachers and Lecturers Chester pre-school Sunshine Under Fives Centre earns satisfactory report from Ofsted... Chester Chronicle UK students as 2010 volunteers... Indian Express HARLOW: Schoolgate Nursery Pupils Celebrate World Book Day... Harlow Herald Market Harborough pupils win road safety quiz... Leicester Mercury Local & Chester News: Chester pre-school Sunshine Under Fives Centre earns satisfactory report from Ofsted... Chester Chronicle England rugby call for Weston College students... Bristol Evening Post British students to volunteer for Commonwealth Gam ...... Webindia123 Scottish Tory school plan cuts state control... Times Online St Helens News Rainhill High 'improving' - Ofsted Rainhill High School has been hailed as "good and improving" by Ofsted inspectors.... St Helens Reporter