<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wcbstv.com/education/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>New York News, Weather, Sports &amp; Traffic - WCBSTV.com</title><link>http://wcbstv.com/education</link><description><![CDATA[New York News, Weather, Sports & Traffic - WCBSTV.com]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:29:10 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Students Rally Around Removed English Teacher]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/greg.van.voorhis.2.1301753.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/greg.van.voorhis.2.1301753.html</link><description><![CDATA[A controversial lesson has landed a popular English teacher in hot water. As he defends himself to the Department of Education, hundreds of students are trying to save his job. There's a lot of love for Greg Van Voorhis, whose students call him "Mr. V." He's Jay Stuart's favorite teacher. During an English class at The Bronx School of Law and Finance Van Voorhis gave 11th graders studying for the Regents Exam a graphic and sexually explicit short story written by the author of "Fight Club" that appeared in Playboy Magazine. 
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:21:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bank Loses $189 Mil Of NYC Teacher Retirement Fund]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/bny.mellon.uft.2.1297521.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/bny.mellon.uft.2.1297521.html</link><description><![CDATA[Funds have disappeared from the bank accounts of retired New York City teachers. Direct deposits were made to thousands of accounts on Monday, but the money has vanished from the accounts of Bank of New York Mellon customers. On Friday afternoon, the bank said it was a processing error, and said it will put back all the money accidentally withdrawn. Officials also promised to reimburse any fees customers may have been charged because of this problem. But that's not satisfying the United Federation of Teachers.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:23:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Students, Parents Alike Play Hooky For Parade]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/worldseries/yankees.parade.hooky.2.1297303.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/worldseries/yankees.parade.hooky.2.1297303.html</link><description><![CDATA[Every day, parents hear their kids say, "Can't I just skip school this one time?" On Friday, even though toughest of parents probably gave in &#150; provided they're Yankee fans &#150; and a lot of kids got a very special day off. The fans lined the streets, the big ones and little ones, but aren't the young fans supposed to be in school? 
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:08:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NYU Student Dead In Apparent Suicide At Library]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/nyu.apparent.suicide.2.1289390.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/nyu.apparent.suicide.2.1289390.html</link><description><![CDATA[A 20-year-old student at New York University apparently committed suicide by jumping from the 10th floor of the main library. The body of Andrew Williamson-Noble, of Irvington, N.Y., was found at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday in NYU's Bobst Library. University spokesman John Beckman said that while the cause of death is still being determined, indications are that the student took his own life. 
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:51:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Student Found Dead Inside Suite At Yale]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/yale.student.dead.2.1284936.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/yale.student.dead.2.1284936.html</link><description><![CDATA[A 19-year-old sophomore at Yale University was found dead Sunday by his roommates inside their suite, the school said. Andre Narcisse of Roosevelt, N.Y., was discovered unresponsive at about 11 a.m. Sunday morning in his suite at Branford College, one of the school's residential colleges, said Tom Conroy, a Yale spokesman. Emergency personnel were not able to resuscitate him, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:30:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Workers Hurt When School Roof Collapses In NY]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/school.roof.collapse.2.1284716.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/school.roof.collapse.2.1284716.html</link><description><![CDATA[An elementary School in Westchester County will be closed Monday after the roof collapsed during work on an addition to the school. Two construction workers were injured in the collapse at the Colonial School in Pelham. Pelham Police Chief Joseph Benefico said the front wall of the school pitched out and the roof collapsed. The two injured workers were taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. Their names were not released, and their conditions were not known.
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:32:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[OUTRAGE: 2 NYC Kids Get Flu Shots Without Consent]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/swine.flu.nyc.2.1281183.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/swine.flu.nyc.2.1281183.html</link><description><![CDATA[A swine flu vaccine mix-up has sparked outrage and concern. Two children were given the vaccine without their parent's consent. One mother said her daughter ended up in the emergency room after getting sick. It's a major mistake that could've cost one little girl her life. 
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:12:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grade-Fixing Scandal Rocks Bronx High School]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/local/grade.fixing.scandal.2.1280416.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/local/grade.fixing.scandal.2.1280416.html</link><description><![CDATA[There's a growing scandal at a Bronx high school after a principal was accused of fixing grades. Investigators are looking into whether failing students at Lehman High School were given a pass, and if others got credit for classes they never took. The alleged motive might have been money. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:25:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 Special Investigation: The Prescription High]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/seenat11/heroin.prescription.drugs.2.1280346.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/seenat11/heroin.prescription.drugs.2.1280346.html</link><description><![CDATA[CBS 2 HD recently told you about the raging epidemic of heroin use among teens on Long Island. But now we need to tell you about another alarming trend among suburban teens. They are becoming addicted to prescription medications -- with devastating consequences. Many times the abuse begins right where you would least expect it. It's every parent's worst nightmare. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:08:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[H1N1 Vaccine Available At NYC Elementary Schools ]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/cbs2crew/swine.flu.vaccine.2.1275304.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/cbs2crew/swine.flu.vaccine.2.1275304.html</link><description><![CDATA[Students at 128 New York City elementary schools are getting vaccinated against swine flu. It's the first phase of the city's drive to make the vaccine available to all school-age children. The city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Farley, said there are 40,000 doses set aside for the first wave of schools. School nurses at those sites will administer the nasal spray vaccine starting Wednesday to students whose parents have signed consent forms. Nurses expect to vaccinate 15 to 25 kids per day, per school. 
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