Suggestions to Fix Higher Education (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | According to Time.com, President Barack Obama has a tough road ahead in convincing colleges and universities to lower tuition rates and increasing infrastructure costs for schools.
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College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan (AP)
AP – Public university presidents facing ever-increasing state budget cuts are raising concerns about President Barack Obama’s plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition prices or face losing federal dollars.
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College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan
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Student charged in Utah school bomb plot (AP)
AP – The two teens had a detailed plot, blueprints of the school and security systems, but no explosives. They had hours of flight simulator training on a home computer and a plan to flee the country, but no plane.
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Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log (AP)
AP – The state’s largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a judge ruled Friday.
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Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log
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Can a home computer teach you to fly a real plane? (AP)
AP – Can flight simulator training on a home computer teach you enough to fly a real plane?
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Can a home computer teach you to fly a real plane?
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Obama education reforms advance as Congress falters (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama’s administration is moving ahead in reforming U.S. education without the help of the Congress, and will soon announce which states can opt out of the national education law known as “No Child Left Behind.”
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Obama education reforms advance as Congress falters
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U.S. economy losing competitive edge: survey (Reuters)
Reuters – The United States is becoming less economically competitive versus other nations, with political gridlock and a weak primary education system seen as the main drag, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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U.S. economy losing competitive edge: survey
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Obama gets advice to lift popularity: join up with Justin Bieber (Reuters)
Reuters – One Australian high school student offered visiting U.S. President Barack Obama a suggestion to raise his popularity — team up with a top celebrity like the teenage pop star Justin Bieber.
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Police: Man shot at UC Berkeley acted strangely (AP)
AP – A University of California, Berkeley undergraduate who apparently turned his life around to attend the university’s prestigious business school was described by investigators Wednesday as having acted strangely in the weeks before he pointed a loaded gun at campus police and an officer fatally shot him.
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Obama to push education plans in Philadelphia stop (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama will highlight his proposals on education in a visit to Philadelphia on Tuesday aimed at bolstering his support in a state that could be important to his re-election prospects in 2012.
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Obama to push education plans in Philadelphia stop
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