In School for the First Time, Teenage Immigrants Struggle

Fanta Konneh is the first girl in her family to go to school. Not the first to go to college, or to graduate from high school. Fanta, 18, who grew up in Guinea after her family fled Liberia, became the first to walk into a classroom of any kind last year.

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Judge Voids Illinois Law on Silent Time in Schools

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the state law requiring a moment of silence in public schools across Illinois is unconstitutional, saying it crosses the line separating church and state.

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Inauguration Is Inspiring Classrooms Nationwide

At a middle school in Austin, Tex., a young history teacher plans to use the hip-hop song “Black President” as a spark for an Inauguration Day discussion of politics and patriotism.

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China: Government to Help College Graduates

China announced a series of measures aimed at helping millions of recent college graduates find work amid the deepening impact of the global financial crisis. Chinese officials have warned that the slowing economy will severely affect employment prospects, with job seekers in the cities already outnumbering available jobs by two to one. There were nearly 5.6 million university graduates in China in 2008.

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The Big Cram for Hunter High School

While their friends played video games in pajamas or vacationed in the tropics, a dozen sixth graders spent winter break at Elite Academy in Flushing, Queens, memorizing word roots. Time was ticking as they prepared to face the thing they had talked about, dreamed about and lost sleep over for much of the past year: the Hunter College High School admissions exam, a strenuous three-hour test that weeds out about 90 percent of those who take it.

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