Minority U.S. schools have inexperienced teachers: report (Reuters)
Reuters – U.S. schools with African-American students are twice as likely to have teachers with little experience as majority white schools in the same district, according to new data released on Thursday.
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Civil rights data shows unequal educational access (AP)
AP – Federal education officials say schools serving mostly black students are more likely to have inexperienced teachers than those largely serving whites, and few school districts have pre-kindergarten programs targeting low-income students.
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Report: Majority black schools have inexperienced teachers (Reuters)
Reuters – Schools with African-American students are twice as likely to have teachers with little experience as majority white schools in the same district, according to data released by the Department of Education on Thursday.
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Ed Dept calls out colleges that hiked tuition by 50 percent (The Lookout)
The Lookout – The Department of Education has listed the 5 percent of colleges that hiked their tuition by the largest percentages over the past three years. The new listing is part of an effort to make college pricing more transparent to young people. Northern New Mexico College, Georgia State University, San Diego State University, and Florida State
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New Tool to Size Up the Most Expensive and Least Expensive Colleges (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire – As mandated in 2008, the Department of Education has debuted a nifty, intuitive website today to size up the most expensive and least expensive higher-education institutions by type. It’s called the “College Affordability and Transparency Center” and it uses information requested from colleges nationwide to create a three-step interactive process for users to generate a list of tuition fees for public, private, for-profit and not-for-profit universities. Another potentially handy feature is the interactive list on the homepage detailing the colleges with the highest tuition rate increases over two years.
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Prediction Tools Gauge College Admissions Chances (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report – As a high school senior in New York City, Taylor Florio was set on his future college destination. “I always knew that I wanted to go to a California school,” he says. “That was the main factor in what schools I looked at.”
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Singer headlines P&G anti-dropout promotion (AP)
AP – Singer-songwriter John Legend will headline a Procter & Gamble Co. promotion to benefit dropout prevention as part of his broad support of education reform.
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ProPublica Launches Online Tool To Compare Public Schools (Mashable)
Mashable – [More from Mashable: Publishers Launch First Digital-Only Textbook for K-12]
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Atlanta schools chief leaves amid cheating probe (AP)
AP – Longtime Atlanta schools chief Beverly Hall has been lauded nationally as a top leader for turning around struggling urban districts, but she retires this week amid allegations of widespread cheating and accusations that she ordered a cover-up of test tampering.
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The Student Loan Ranger’s Mailbag Express: Consolidation and Repayment (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report – Another month, another payment closer to loan forgiveness for the Student Loan Ranger. That’s right: We don’t just talk the talk; we walk the walk and we pay the debt.
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