Posts Tagged ‘internet’

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.

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 at 16:10 0 comments

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.

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 at 06:20 0 comments

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

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 at 21:24 0 comments

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

Friday, October 1st, 2010 at 14:46 0 comments

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

Saturday, September 18th, 2010 at 10:16 0 comments

Pew Survey Finds Predictable Trends Among Mobile Phone Users: Pew Internet has just completed a survey of nearly 2… http://bit.ly/b55g4u

Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 11:36 0 comments

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 .

Friday, August 27th, 2010 at 21:48 0 comments

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.

Friday, August 27th, 2010 at 21:48 0 comments

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

Friday, August 13th, 2010 at 21:23 0 comments

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.

Saturday, August 7th, 2010 at 22:04 0 comments