First-and second-generation immigrants make up 41 percent of Ivy League black students (The Lookout)
The Lookout – Cord Jefferson at Good Magazine points to research that shows that first-and second-generation black immigrants make up 41 percent of all black students at Ivy League universities, even though they constitute less than 1 percent of the U.S. population. Jefferson writes that Ivy League schools brag about their diversity while “admitting hugely disproportionate numbers of
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First-and second-generation immigrants make up 41 percent of Ivy League black students
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Irene delays opening of schools across East (AP)
AP – Parents may be ready to send their kids back to school, but some schools aren’t ready to take them back.
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Holes remain in flight school scrutiny after 9/11 (AP)
AP – Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, government screening has made it harder for foreign students to enroll in civilian flight schools as a handful of the hijackers did, banking on America being inviting and a place to learn quickly.
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Holes remain in flight school scrutiny after 9/11
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College presidents say online courses are just as good as in-person instruction (The Lookout)
The Lookout – Is taking a college course over the Internet just as good as attending an in-person seminar? The nation’s college presidents think so. Slightly more than half of 1,055 presidents of public and private colleges said that an online-only course has the same educational value as an in-person class, according to the Pew Research Center and
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College presidents say online courses are just as good as in-person instruction
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NY comptroller nixes school deal with Murdoch co. (AP)
AP – New York’s comptroller has spiked a $27 million contract with one of media giant Rupert Murdoch’s companies because of the phone hacking scandal in Great Britain.
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A different kind of college rankings: The top 10 that give back (The Lookout)
The Lookout – We give colleges billions in public subsidies–but what are they doing for us? That’s what editors at Washington Monthly aimed to find out with their unusual college rankings, released today. The Monthly’s roster of schools rates them not on the basis of how exclusive they are, but on how much they help their communities and
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A different kind of college rankings: The top 10 that give back
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Ind. vouchers prompt thousands to change schools (AP)
AP – Weeks after Indiana began the nation’s broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to private schools, causing a spike in enrollment at some Catholic institutions that were only recently on the brink of closing for lack of pupils.
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Prosecutors: LA school officer staged shooting (AP)
AP – Prosecutors say a Los Angeles school police officer made up a story about being shot by a car burglary suspect to look like a hero.
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Atlanta public school officials give documents to grand jury (Reuters)
Reuters – Atlanta public school officials appeared on Friday before a county grand jury investigating alleged cheating by teachers and principals on standardized tests and turned over 95 volumes of subpoenaed documents, officials said.
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Ohio Catholic school cancels Muslim goodwill event (AP)
AP – A Roman Catholic high school dropped plans for a Ramadan dinner after hearing complaints about its partnership with a Muslim advocacy group that federal officials have linked to a terror financing case.
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