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Malaysia's ruling coalition maintains parliamentary majority
This post has been updated, as indicated below.PENANG, Malaysia — Malaysia’s ruling National Front coalition won at the polls Sunday, election commission officials announced, as voters opted for continuity and experience over opposition calls for reform. The 13-party National Front...Tags: Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Teaching and Learning, Religion and Belief, Parliament, Minority Groups
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UC faculty leader warns of more exits if research loses ground
The systemwide leader of the University of California’s faculty said Friday that he hoped that the announced move of prominent neuroscience researchers from UCLA to USC reminds government leaders in Sacramento of the importance of research at UC....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Labor Legislation, Science and Technology, University of California, Los Angeles, Career and Workplace
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'The Great Gatsby' is so right, and Leonardo DiCaprio is so wrong
What's to live for? The price of wine continues to skyrocket, and Warren Buffett is now tweeting. What's next for us culturally? Bingo night at the Louvre? Meanwhile, the criminal justice system insists on hammering on poor Lindsay Lohan. It's only a...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Leonardo DiCaprio, Authors, Education, Long Island
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USC steals 2 star brain researchers from UCLA
In a major case of academic poaching involving crosstown rivals, USC has lured away two prominent neuroscientists from UCLA with a promise to expand their internationally renowned lab that uses brain imaging techniques to study Alzheimer's disease,...
Tags: Schizophrenia, Research, Science, Students, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Edgar Allan Jones Jr. dies at 92; law professor played judge on TV courtroom shows
The TV career of Edgar Allan Jones Jr. began with a phone call in early 1958 from a producer who needed to cast someone knowledgeable about the law. Although Jones taught law full time at UCLA, he was nervous at the prospect of auditioning: His only...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Laws, Labor Disputes, Entertainment, Colleges and Universities
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Greek government orders teachers not to strike
ATHENS -- Greece’s ruling coalition threatened Monday to arrest public high school teachers if they walk off work later this week, a strike that would potentially disrupt university-entrance exams for thousands of students. But the government's...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Civil and Public Service, Layoffs and Downsizing, Politics, Job Layoffs
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Police find gun, cocaine, pot in teacher's car parked at school
A Northern California teacher was arrested at school Thursday after officers found drugs and a gun in his car. William Jepson Middle School officials got a tip that the teacher’s car contained marijuana and a gun while parked on school grounds....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Drug Trafficking
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Ka-ching: Rick Perry's plan for Texa$ universities
There are three things Rick Perry would like to do to the great public universities of Texas, but he can only remember two of them. That’s a joke. You may remember that during a 2012 presidential debate, he started to list three departments of...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Lobbying, Politics, Rick Perry, Education
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Officials address restroom problem at Locke High
Chris Tellez sat in class, his stomach grinding. The 15-year-old felt fine in his first class two weeks ago at Animo Locke Charter High School 2 in Watts, but by second period he could wait no longer. "I had to use the restroom," he said. "But the...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning, Vandalism, University of California, Los Angeles, Students
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Ronald Reagan and the fall of UC
Once upon a time, the University of California was a sacred trust, the top tier of a model educational system that helped lift the state to unprecedented prosperity. It was jealously protected from outside political interference. Now UC is more often...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Ronald Reagan, Regional Authority, FBI, Students
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Herbert Blau dies at 87; theater director helped shape CalArts
Herbert Blau, an influential theater director, theorist and scholar who helped shape CalArts during its early years, died at his home in Seattle on May 3, his 87th birthday. He had cancer, according to the Seattle Times. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-born...
Tags: University of Washington, Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, Brooklyn (New York City), Science and Technology
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iPads in school: a toy or a tool?
At Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, every student has an iPad. That's 1,200 iPads, and if L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy can figure out how to pay for 660,000 more of them, every student in the district will have a tablet in the next...
Tags: Apple iPad, Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, Science and Technology, Electronics
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