Education department awards grants to 7 states (Reuters)
Reuters – Seven states will share $200 million in grant money they can use to improve student achievement, the Department of Education announced on Friday.
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Seven states win federal education competition (AP)
AP – Seven states won a share of $200 million in federal “Race to the Top” money to improve K-12 education programs, the Education Department announced Thursday.
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Seven states win federal education competition
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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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There’s No Good Answer When It Comes to Student Loans (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire – Today in academia: a student debt conundrum, a homecoming for detained U.S. students in Cairo, the latest adderall on-campus fretting, and Harvard’s early application vortex.
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There’s No Good Answer When It Comes to Student Loans
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NYC OK’s Verizon contract at city schools (AP)
AP – A policy panel for New York City’s Department of Education has backed a controversial $120 million contract with a Verizon subsidiary to provide phone and Internet services at city schools for two years.
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Closure of migrant children schools in China sparks anguish (Reuters)
Reuters – China has shut down 24 schools for the children of migrant workers in Beijing forcing more than 14,000 students to drop out, state media said, sparking anger among parents who say they face discrimination.
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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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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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New Tool to Size Up the Most Expensive and Least Expensive Colleges
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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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Prediction Tools Gauge College Admissions Chances
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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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