Education

• Business-school test maker seeks Web cheaters (AP) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:57:33
  AP - Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the last five years could have their scores thrown out.
• New federal student loan terms take effect (AP) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:22:55
  AP - Changes in the federal student aid program that took effect Tuesday will lessen interest rates for some students while increasing the amount they can borrow.
• 6 states to design own plans for fixing schools (AP) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:58:23
  AP - Six states are getting the OK to write their own prescriptions for ailing schools under the Bush administration’s signature education law.
• Poll: Schools not properly preparing kids (AP) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:52:17
  

  AP - It’s not much of a report card.

  
  
• Border fence would cut through Texas university (AP) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:46:29
  

  AP - The steel fence that the U.S. government wants to build along the Mexican border would do more than slice through the University of Texas’ Brownsville campus and cut off the golf course from the rest of the school.

  
  
• Japanese students schooled with Nintendo (Reuters) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:47:19
  

  Reuters - Nintendo is banned everywhere but the classroom at Tokyo Joshi Gakuen school in Japan as the ubiquitous DS consoles become the latest tool in English instruction.

  
  
• Free tuition program ends in Mass. with diplomas (AP) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:07:33
  AP - A program that gained national attention in 1991 for offering to pay college tuition for 69 second-graders is closing its doors in Cambridge on Friday.
• How they voted: Senate roll call on war bill (AP) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:54:18
  AP - The 92-6 roll call by which the Senate on Thursday passed a bill to pay for war operations, boost college aid for troops, extend unemployment benefits and provide emergency flood relief.
• Nintendo DS teaches English in school (AP) Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:24:10
  

  AP - The Nintendo DS isn’t just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo’s Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods.

  
  
• U.S. students improve in math and reading, report finds (The Christian Science Monitor) Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:00:00
  The Christian Science Monitor - America’s schoolchildren are improving in reading and math – and minorities and those at the bottom of the economic ladder are closing the so-called achievement gap, which is a major goal of US education reform.
• Universities seek to limit alcohol off-campus (AP) Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:30:22
  AP - Many college towns have tried to limit the availability of alcohol off-campus. Here are a few examples:
• States turn down US abstinence education grants (AP) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:18:25
  AP - Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the states are still in, and two more say they are leaving.
• Houston school workers hope to get $250 gas money (AP) Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:25:50
  AP - These days, everyone’s feeling the pain at the pump, but for Houston’s lowest-paid school district employees — who make as little as $15,000 a year — some relief may be on the way.
• Everything seemingly is spinning out of control (AP) Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:13:07
  

  AP - Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism.

  
  
• Oscar De La Hoya gives $3.5M to LA charter schools (AP) Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:25:51
  

  AP - Oscar De La Hoya has donated $3.5 million toward helping underprivileged students.

  
  
• Northwestern U. to offer 2-year law program (AP) Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:09:54
  AP - Northwestern University School of Law will offer an accelerated, two-year program for law degrees starting in 2009, becoming the only law school among top-tier institutions to offer both two- and three-year programs, university officials said.
• House votes to provide $162 billion in war funding (AP) Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:55:55
  

  AP - A much-delayed Iraq war funding bill sailed through the House on Thursday, along with a doubling of college aid for returning troops and help for the unemployed and Midwestern flood victims.

  
  
• Police: Gunman arrested after entering NYC school (AP) Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:57:34
  AP - Officials say a Brooklyn elementary school was evacuated after a man with a gun was reported in the building. No students or teachers were injured, and police have arrested the man.
• States eye uniform graduation rate reporting (AP) Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:45:19
  AP - Comparing graduation rates from state to state, or even school to school, can be difficult because all kinds of methods are used to determine them.
• Obama promises tuition tax credit (AP) Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:51:32
  

  AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama recalled paying off his own mountain of student loan debt and promised struggling college students Tuesday he would help them pay for school.

  
  

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