APNewsBreak: Woman accused of flight school fraud (AP)
AP – Immigration officials on Wednesday arrested a woman accused of bringing foreign students to train at her Southern California flight school on fraudulent visas and without government authorization.
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Poor schools don’t get "fair share": Education Department (Reuters)
Reuters – Many poor public schools do not pay teachers and educators as much as wealthier schools just a few miles away, according to a survey of 13,000 school districts the U.S. Department of Education released on Wednesday.
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More Minnesota school districts to borrow: survey (Reuters)
Reuters – More Minnesota school districts will borrow for cash-flow purposes in the current school year after the state delayed a chunk of education aid payments, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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A Warning Label for College; The Urgency of Rising Tuition (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire – Today in academia: a warning label for higher education, being urgent about rising tuition costs, a single-sex dorm complaint gets dismissed and finally getting used to video game-based classes.
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A Warning Label for College; The Urgency of Rising Tuition
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Android Smartphones Have Big Security Hole [VIDEO] (Mashable)
Mashable – [brightcove video="1303264940001 " /] If Google was just starting to forget about the Android malware threats from earlier this year, now it has another security headache: Researchers at North Carolina State University just discovered a new vulnerability in some of the most popular Android phones being sold today.
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Afghan children ready to walk down Sesame Street (Reuters)
Reuters – Children in Afghanistan soon will be able to start their education the same way as millions of preschoolers elsewhere in the world: by watching the TV series “Sesame Street.”
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Correction: SAT Cheating story (AP)
AP – In a Nov. 28 story about an SAT cheating scandal in New York, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that the College Board was based in Princeton, N.J. The College Board is based in New York. The Educational Testing Service, which administers the SATs on behalf of the College Board, is based in Princeton.
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Correction: SAT Cheating story
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Poverty dominates many school districts: Census (Reuters)
Reuters – Nearly half of all children in America live in school districts with high levels of poverty, according to U.S. Census data released on Tuesday that pointed to financial traps many public schools are caught in.
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Occupy Wall Street’s Making It Harder for Banks to Recruit (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire – Today in academia: an Ivy league recruiting conundrum, professors are worried like the rest of us, another counterpoint to those liberal student papers, and a few necessary things to do to graduate.
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Occupy Wall Street’s Making It Harder for Banks to Recruit
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Government begins Penn State abuse scandal probe (Reuters)
Reuters – Investigators from the Department of Education arrived at Penn State University on Monday to review how it handled sex abuse charges against a former football coach, the school said.
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Government begins Penn State abuse scandal probe
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