Gov't study: School killings up slightly
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At least 21 people were killed at school during the 2004-05 academic year, a slight increase from the year before, the government reported Sunday.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - More than 150 Brazilians were   murdered each day last year on average, putting Brazil on a par   with some war zones in terms of its homicide rate, the Justice   Ministry said on Monday.
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The Bush administration on Monday sought a cut of $4.9 billion, or 8 percent, in education, training, employment and social services grants but estimated that overall outlays to state and local governments would rise slightly.
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BAGHDAD, May 23 -- More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising again.
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The Nation's Report Card shows U.S. students are improving slightly in math, but less so in reading
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Media & professional: Two-thirds of teachers in the UK have been physically or verbally assaulted in the past year, with 17% threatened in incidents involving weapons, according to new research.
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The number of terrorism cases   brought by the U.S. government has dropped steadily in recent   years and an increasing proportion are dropped due to lack of   evidence, according to a new study.
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The number of violent crimes in the   United States jumped 2.3 percent in 2005 and a senior Justice   Department official said on Monday it may keep rising this   year.
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Â· Schools in disadvantaged areas progressing most Â· Too few pupils get good grades, say critics
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The nation's accidental death rate has been gradually creeping higher and is up 12 percent compared to the lowest rate on record, in 1992, according to a report released Thursday by the National Safety Council.
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Report on US college massacre says officials might have saved lives if they had acted sooner.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - Two girls died overnight after a school shooting in Pennsylvania, bringing to five the number of students killed when a gunman burst into their one-room schoolhouse, state police said on Tuesday.
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The murder rate jumped by more than 10 percent among dozens of large U.S. cities since 2004, a study shows in the latest sign of the end of a national lull in violent crime. Robberies also spiked during the two-year period, as did felony assaults and attacks with guns, according to the report to be released Friday by the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based law enforcement think tank.
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Civilian deaths rose in August to their second-highest monthly level this year, according to figures compiled Saturday by The Associated Press. That raises questions about whether U.S. strategy is working days before Congress receives landmark reports that will decide the course of the war.
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Officials might have saved lives if they had acted sooner after first shootings at college, report says.
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The report says students are catching up to their worldwide counterparts but fourth-graders are not. By Michael Dobbs / Washington Post.
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Fewer prison inmates were moved to death row in 2005, according to a federal study that shows one more person was executed than in the year before.