NJ’s Christie seeks shake-up in higher education (AP)
AP – Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday proposed turning a former teacher’s college into New Jersey’s second major public research university in a shake-up of the state’s higher education system that’s intended to raise the standing of Rutgers University and other institutions from “good to great.”
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Lady Gaga in duet with … Harvard? (Reuters)
Reuters – Pop culture and higher education are once again merging — and hopefully this time it will go better than Snooki’s ill-conceived visit to Rutgers.
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Ed Dept. seeks public input on cheating (AP)
AP – The Education Department wants the public’s input to develop guidelines to prevent and detect cheating. The effort comes after several cheating scandals involving teachers.
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States face delays in implementing Race to the Top (AP)
AP – Several states that won a slice of the U.S. Department of Education’s $4.3 billion Race to the Top competition have had to delay plans to implement ambitious reforms and two could possibly lose money if they don’t get back on track.
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Students rally at Philly schools slated to close (AP)
AP – Students at several Philadelphia-area Catholic schools slated for closure staged rallies Monday to voice their opposition to an archdiocese plan that would shutter 48 schools.
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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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UC Berkeley’s gift to middle-class families: a cap on college costs (The Christian Science Monitor)
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Virginia Tech seeks to block $55,000 fine (AP)
AP – More than four years after a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, an Education Department official told an administrative hearing Wednesday that the university should have acted more quickly to notify students and faculty of a security threat on campus.
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An Inside View of the Brinkley-Young Exchange (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | In perhaps the latest display of popular disapproval of government, historian and Rice University Professor of History Douglas Brinkley got into a heated exchange with Alaska Representative Don Young over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The exchange, which was prompted when Rep. Young mistakenly referred to Dr. Brinkley as Dr. Rice while referring to Brinkley’s testimony as “garbage,” quickly escalated when Young said, “I’ll call you anything you want”, and Brinkley retorted, “You don’t own me.”
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