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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Obama ‘putting colleges on notice’ on high tuition (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama fired a warning at the nation’s colleges and universities on Friday, threatening to strip their federal aid if they “jack up tuition” every year and to give the money instead to schools showing restraint and value.
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Broken schools breed South Africa’s "lost generation" (Reuters)
Reuters – The first blow to Martha Netshiozwe’s future came when her parents died of AIDS. The second came when she ran out of money and had to drop out of a South African high school.
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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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Prepaid college plans: shrinking options, rising risks (Reuters)
Reuters – Jim and Celeste Durkin thought when they began investing six years ago in Illinois state’s prepaid college savings plan that they were locking in a bargain price if their daughter Caroline, who is now 10, eventually attended the University of Illinois.
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2 boys, 10, accused of sex assault on Houston bus (AP)
AP – Houston police say two 10-year-old boys have been charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy on a school bus.
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Shooting at Houston high school injures student (AP)
AP – A school official says an 18-year-old brought a gun inside a Houston high school and shot another student in the leg despite metal detectors on the campus.
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Banished Words from Michigan’s Lake Superior State; Wayne State University’s Words to Revive (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – Lake Superior State University (LSSU) in Michigan’s upper peninsula recently announced its 37th annual voter-generated list of banned words for 2012. Meanwhile, says Michigan Radio, Detroit’s Wayne State University has proffered a list of suggestions for defunct words to revive. Here’s a fact box about both word lists: the repellent and resurrection-worthy.
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Spec-Ops troops learn to be gumshoes (AP)
AP – A scene of stomach-clenching gore confronted the special operations troops: the shredded remains of a suicide bomber, scattered around the checkpoint.
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Report: Atlanta students improving despite scandal (AP)
AP – Atlanta students are performing better than ever before on national math and reading tests — and they’re not cheating to get there, federal officials said Wednesday.
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