Teachers Are Educators, Not Entertainers
COMMENTARY | According to HealthDay, a questionnaire distributed to students at the University of Pittsburgh reveals students who texted less during college classes earned better grades and reported learning more than students who texted more often.
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Teachers Are Educators, Not Entertainers
Is Ralph Nader Right About Apple’s Texas Campus?
Activist Ralph Nader has written an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook urging the company to refuse the nearly $30 million in Texan taxpayer money already pledged to lure the company to build a $304 million campus in Austin.The money is nothing compared to Apple’s enormous profits, Nader says, but would mean a lot to Texas public schools. Nader writes:
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Is Ralph Nader Right About Apple’s Texas Campus?
Teens Make Flavor Strips for Tastier Astronaut Food
Astronauts who go heavy on the hot sauce may welcome a less-messy space food idea from four high school students. The students are developing “Stellar Strips” — melt-in-your-mouth strips containing condiment flavors strong enough to jolt any sense of taste that has been dulled by life aboard a space station or spacecraft.
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Judge dismisses Virginia Tech fine for slow alert
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – A judge has thrown out a fine imposed by federal education officials against Virginia Tech, finding the school did not wait too long under federal law to alert students of the first shootings in a 2007 rampage that left 32 innocent people dead. The U.S. Department of Education last year ordered the university to pay a $55,000 fine, the maximum allowed for violations of the federal Clery Act, which requires timely warnings of crimes on campuses. University officials waited more than two hours before notifying the campus that a shooting had occurred. …
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Judge dismisses Virginia Tech fine for slow alert
Mass. college backs off invite to Kennedy widow
A Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts said Friday that it’s withdrawn an invitation to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy’s widow to speak and receive an honorary degree at commencement after the local bishop objected.
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Mass. college backs off invite to Kennedy widow
American Public Education to Webcast First Quarter 2012 Results Conference Call
American Public Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: APEI) – parent company of online learning provider American Public University System, which operates through American Military University and American Public University – plans to release first quarter 2012 results after the close of U.S. financial markets on May 10, 2012.
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American Public Education to Webcast First Quarter 2012 Results Conference Call
Government Initiative Tests Education Graduate Schools
After 28 years working at a specialty chemical company, Michael Fowler of Whitestown, Ind., 50, felt the urge to inspire a love of science in teenagers, much as his own high school chemistry teacher had in him. In 2011, he was enticed by a three-year-old master’s degree fellowship program for would-be science and math teachers at the University of Indianapolis.
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Government Initiative Tests Education Graduate Schools
Affirmative action in college admissions goes back before Supreme Court (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – The US Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to take up a potential blockbuster case testing the constitutionality of race-based admissions policies at the University of Texas.
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Affirmative action in college admissions goes back before Supreme Court
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Muslim students across Northeast monitored by NYPD (AP)
AP – The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.
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Muslim students across Northeast monitored by NYPD
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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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