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Starting next year, for-profit schools, including some of the nation’s biggest online colleges–like the University of Phoenix , Kaplan University , and Strayer University –will have to provide graduation rate and job placement figures to new students and applicants, the Department of Education has ordered. That’s a sample of more than a dozen reforms the government will impose on for-profit schools beginning July 1, 2011.
JERICHO, N.Y. — Fifteen eighth graders at Jericho Middle School were considering a fictional case of stereotyping by hair color the other day, or how a boy came to be prejudiced against people with green hair, or “greenies.” From there, they extrapolated to the stereotypes in their own lives: dumb football players, Asian math whizzes, boring bankers.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers University has planned a silent vigil to remember a student who committed suicide after his sexual encounter was secretly streamed online
A former administrator at St. John’s University accused of embezzling about $1 million from the college in Queens has now been charged with far more lurid crimes: forcing students to clean, cook and act as her personal servants to keep their scholarships
Best Buy CEO: The Reports Of Microsoft’s Death Are Grossly Exaggerated… By Me.: All day, the Internet has been eru… http://bit.ly/des5tU
Pew Survey Finds Predictable Trends Among Mobile Phone Users: Pew Internet has just completed a survey of nearly 2… http://bit.ly/b55g4u
Republican Gov. Chris Christie has fired New Jersey’s education chief after the U.S. Department of Education released video that caught the administration in a lie, T he New Jersey Star-Ledger reports .
JACKSON, Miss. – A policy designed to achieve racial equality at a north Mississippi school has long meant that only white kids can run for some class offices one year, black kids the next.
Five Rules For How To Make Things Go Viral (TCTV): Making things go viral on the Internet is an elusive art, one t… http://bit.ly/dv0W3E
On Friday afternoons between work and rugby practice, Brittany Wolfe would rush to the campus library hoping copies of her advanced algebra textbook had not all been checked out by like-minded classmates. It was part of the math major’s routine last quarter at the University of California , Los Angeles: Stand in line at the reserve desk in the library’s closing hours with the goal of borrowing a copy for the weekend. The alternative was to buy a $120 book and sell it back for far less.