UC Berkeley’s gift to middle-class families: a cap on college costs (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – The University of California at Berkeley
Turnaround plan targets rural W.Va. schools (AP)
AP – A coalition that includes a Fortune 500 company, labor unions and nonprofit foundations outlined plans Thursday to spend the next five years focused on rescuing a rural West Virginia school district, one of the country’s most downtrodden.
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Good news at last for college graduates: an improved job outlook (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Hiring for college grads is poised to improve during the current academic year – a welcome piece of positive news for young Americans who have been among those most affected by a weak job market.
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House protects pizza as a vegetable (Reuters)
Reuters – The House of Representatives dealt a blow to childhood obesity warriors on Thursday by passing a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.
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Harvard faker ordered to undergo psych evaluation (AP)
AP – A Delaware man convicted of fraud for faking his way into Harvard was ordered Thursday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after a Massachusetts judge found he violated his probation by putting the Ivy League school on his resume.
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Alabama immigration law leaves schools gripped by uncertainty (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Thursday Alabama became the first state in the nation to require public schools to check the immigration status of children when they enroll.
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SAT cheating scandal: Are stakes getting too high for college admission? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – The case of a Great Neck, N.Y., man accused of being paid to take the SAT for high school students is once again prompting questions nationwide about how much cheating goes on in the world of high-stakes testing.
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Rick Perry’s kinder, gentler view on illegal immigrants: Will it cost him? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s support of in-state college tuition rates for children of illegal immigrants is raising eyebrows among tea party Republicans and is giving his challengers for the GOP presidential nomination fresh ammunition to attack him.
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Rick Perry’s kinder, gentler view on illegal immigrants: Will it cost him? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s support of in-state college tuition rates for children of illegal immigrants is raising eyebrows among tea party Republicans and is giving his challengers for the GOP presidential nomination fresh ammunition to attack him.
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Rick Perry’s kinder, gentler view on illegal immigrants: Will it cost him?
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Rick Perry’s kinder, gentler view on illegal immigrants: Will it cost him? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s support of in-state college tuition rates for children of illegal immigrants is raising eyebrows among tea party Republicans and is giving his challengers for the GOP presidential nomination fresh ammunition to attack him.
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Rick Perry’s kinder, gentler view on illegal immigrants: Will it cost him?
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