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![<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><strong>Headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2013</strong></strong></span></strong></strong></span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-05/53720860-12093801.jpg "<span style="font-size: medium;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><strong>Headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2013</strong></strong></span></strong></strong></span>")
Headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2013
GODSMACK: Sully Gets Own Guitar
Godsmack frontman Sully Erna is the latest musician to get his own signature guitar.
Gibson's Sully Erna Les Paul Studio model is ebony black with a Godsmack sun emblem on the body...Tags: Hubert Sumlin, Mick Foley, Anaheim Ducks, Cell Phones, CSI (tv program)
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Advocates, experts call for more attention to bullying of special needs-students
Special-education advocates are calling for the state to do more to address the bullying of disabled students, saying that a recent lawsuit against the city school system highlights the long-lasting harm that harassment can do to such children. Experts...Tags: Teaching and Learning, U.S. Department of Education, Autism, Students, Crime, Law and Justice
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Someone will choose your child's education; why not you?
![This is National School Choice Week, an occasion that always makes me think back to 1976, when as a writer for my high school paper, I interviewed retiring Baltimore County schools Superintendent Joshua Wheeler. I asked Mr. Wheeler why our schools didn't require proficiency testing for graduation. "I know we're a great school system," I said diplomatically, "but even so, some of our kids graduate without being able to read and write."](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67624130-25095751.jpg "This is National School Choice Week, an occasion that always makes me think back to 1976, when as a writer for my high school paper, I interviewed retiring Baltimore County schools Superintendent Joshua Wheeler. I asked Mr. Wheeler why our schools didn't require proficiency testing for graduation. "I know we're a great school system,\" I said diplomatically, \"but even so, some of our kids graduate without being able to read and write.\"")
This is National School Choice Week, an occasion that always makes me think back to 1976, when as a writer for my high school paper, I interviewed retiring Baltimore County schools Superintendent Joshua Wheeler. I asked Mr. Wheeler why our schools didn'...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Students, Teachers
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Majoring in chic at L.A.'s fashion schools
![In a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, where, down the hall from a flat-screen TV broadcasting a runway show, past a plexiglass case of high-fashion Barbies, two of their peers are consulting with Mary Stephens, the school's self-described "big boss."¶"This is a very new-looking shape here," says Stephens, FIDM's director of fashion design. She is talking to Alejandro Ortega, one of 11 students the school has accepted into its advanced fashion design program this year and one of the 8,000 students enrolled on FIDM's four California campuses.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67206528-06135653.jpg "In a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, where, down the hall from a flat-screen TV broadcasting a runway show, past a plexiglass case of high-fashion Barbies, two of their peers are consulting with Mary Stephens, the school's self-described "big boss.\"¶\"This is a very new-looking shape here,\" says Stephens, FIDM's director of fashion design. She is talking to Alejandro Ortega, one of 11 students the school has accepted into its advanced fashion design program this year and one of the 8,000 students enrolled on FIDM's four California campuses.")
Los Angeles TimesIn a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design &...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Chanel S.A., Television, Christian Lacroix, Arts
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Howard school system closes on new school site in Elkridge
Elkridge will get a new elementary school for the 2013-2014 academic year now that the sellers of a 10.1-acre site on Ducketts Lane have settled a dispute in court. The Howard County school system was supposed to close the deal with Ducketts Ridge LLC in...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Education, Schools, Oxford (Talbot, Maryland), Elementary Schools
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State progressing on Race to Top reforms
Except for a delay in a new teacher-evaluation program, Maryland has made a strong start toward achieving the ambitious school reform goals that won the state a coveted $250 million grant, according to federal officials. Maryland, one of 11 states and...Tags: Teaching and Learning, U.S. Department of Education, Teachers, Arne Duncan
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Wish list for new director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
To: Richard Cordray, Director
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Dear Mr. Cordray:
First, congratulations on your appointment to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Unless the banking interests have their way, your appointment is expected...Tags: Credit and Debt, Credit Ratings, Education, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Baltimore City Community College unified by struggle to get off probation
Carolane Williams does not flinch when confronted with the particulars of her difficult year, which included an employee uprising and unwanted scrutiny from the leader of the state.
"I knew I was going to have to tough it out," says the woman who has led...Tags: Lombard Street, Education, Martin O'Malley, Science, Colleges and Universities
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McDaniel College's new $8 million stadium to bear the name of 1961 alumnus Kenneth Gill
On a sunny and mild Friday afternoon, Feb. 3, the shovels dug into a pile of dirt at McDaniel College.
The groundbreaking for McDaniel's new stadium signified a renewed commitment to the school's athletic program, and the official beginning of a new era...Tags: Education, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Colleges and Universities, College Sports, Ivy League
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Social Media Charts Life, Bullying and Death of Girl Who Committed Suicide
PIX11.com / @jamesfordtvAmanda Cummings, 15, a Staten Island high school sophomore who committed suicide, clearly indicated on Facebook weeks beforehand that she was contemplating taking her life, possibly because of bullying at her school . Intimidating postings on Cummings'...Tags: Facebook, Teaching and Learning, Suicide, Social Media, Suicide
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UPDATED: Name of teen victim released in Franklin County crash
News 7 ReporterPolice have identified a boy killed in a Franklin County crash on Monday. UPDATED 5 p.m. Tuesday: Zachary Ian Parsons was 17 and a student at Franklin County High School. The car Zachary Parsons was in came to rest off of Route 122 or Booker T....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Facebook, Hospitals and Clinics, Transportation Accidents, Traffic
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University Sells 'Plan B' Pill in Vending Machines
![SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. -- Students at a college in Pennsylvania can now buy Plan B -- the so-called "morning-after pill" -- as easily as they buy sodas or a bag of chips.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/67907319-07055402.jpg "SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. -- Students at a college in Pennsylvania can now buy Plan B -- the so-called "morning-after pill\" -- as easily as they buy sodas or a bag of chips.")
KTLA NewsSHIPPENSBURG, Pa. -- Students at a college in Pennsylvania can now buy Plan B -- the so-called "morning-after pill" -- as easily as they buy sodas or a bag of chips. The emergency contraceptive is now available in vending machines at Shippensburg...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Education, Students, Drugs and Medicines
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