High school graduation rates up, but some states lag behind (The Lookout)
The Lookout – More high school students are hitting the books and getting their degrees within four years, data from the National Center for Education Statistics show. But not every state is part of that positive trend. About 74.7 percent of high school students in the class of 2007-08 graduated on time, up from 72 percent of the class
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High school graduation rates up, but some states lag behind
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Student loans, gov’t pensions eyed by budgeteers (AP)
AP – The White House and key lawmakers are considering reductions in student loan subsidies, farm payments and support for federal workers’ pensions as they search for cuts that can clear the way for an increase in the national debt limit, according to officials in both parties.
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Lawmakers defend french fries as USDA limits spuds (AP)
AP – Often maligned, the french fry is fighting back.
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Lawmakers defend french fries as USDA limits spuds
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Hundreds protest Ga. charter school ruling (AP)
AP – Hundreds of Georgia charter school parents, students and school administrators are protesting a ruling by the state’s highest court that overturned a law allowing the creation of state-approved charters.
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Warrant issued for man in Houston school shooting (AP)
AP – A warrant has been issued for a man accused of allowing a 6-year-old boy access to a gun that the child accidentally fired inside an elementary school cafeteria in Houston.
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Warrant issued for man in Houston school shooting
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10 Most Popular Medical Schools (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report – The University of Kansas Medical Center is the nation’s most popular medical school, according to an analysis of yield data by U.S. News.
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10 Most Popular Medical Schools
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Hispanic students make strides on AP exams, College Board reports (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Hispanic high school students in the US now make up a greater share of those achieving a passing score on an Advanced Placement (AP) exam than at any other point in the past decade, according to a report released Wednesday by the national College Board.
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NACAC Issues First Report on Best Colleges Rankings (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report – The National Association for College Admission Counseling surveyed its members on attitudes toward U.S. News’s Best Colleges rankings; recently the NACAC/U.S. News & World Report Ad Hoc Committee issued its first report on the survey.
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NACAC Issues First Report on Best Colleges Rankings
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Despite fiery rhetoric, largest teachers union spending big for Dems (The Upshot)
The Upshot – Over the summer, the president of the nation’s largest teachers union told thousands of members that Obama’s education policies were “not the change I hoped for.” “Today our members face the most anti-educator, anti-union, anti-student environment I have ever experienced,” National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel said at group’s annual convention in New Orleans,
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Wen says rote learning must go in Chinese schools (Reuters)
Reuters – Chinese schools have to get their students to be creative and think for themselves, Premier Wen Jiabao told officials, in reference to the rote-learning deeply ingrained in the national education system.
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