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Number of the day 300 That's how many coaches work for InsideTrack , a 12-year-old San Francisco company that's the biggest player in the growing field of providing counseling for college students. The coaches talk with...
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Repeated warnings that student loan rates will double in July unless Congress prevents it may be causing unwarranted fears for people with college debt. College debt is a big election year issue and many news stories...
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San Francisco City College's Department of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies is scrambling to cut $250,000 out of its school cafeteria budget, or college officials say they will shut down the dining hall. Though it...
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A northwest suburban high school dean has resigned after he was accused of sending inappropriate texts to a student.
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Parents pay about $8,500 more a year to send their children to the best-performing elementary schools in Las Vegas -- the cost of buying homes in the neighborhoods served by those schools, a Brookings Institution report released Thursday concludes.
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UCLA apologized today for wrongly sending congratulatory admission letters to 894 high school students who were actually on the wait-list. The letters for entry in fall 2012 went out along with the thousands of admitted students. The students also received a financial aid notice, the...
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Researchers found that high school math teachers rated the abilities of white female students lower than those of their white male peers, even when grades and test scores were comparable.
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The Clark County School District could shed hundreds of jobs as it faces a “worst-case” budget deficit of nearly $64 million next school year if it doesn’t win its arbitration battle with its teachers union, according to a tentative budget summary.
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New policy requires administration approval for most communication; violates free speech, experts sayThe publicly funded Chicago State University has instructed its faculty and staff that only authorized university representatives can share information with the media and that everything from opinion pieces to social media communications could...(more)
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Some professors worry about opening a college in such a restrictive nation. Administrators say there was plenty of time to object.
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Parents, educators are asking: Is 2.5 hours enough to adequately prepare students for first grade?Lisa Olson was relaxing poolside on a family vacation when her cellphone started vibrating incessantly, disrupting the calm.
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'De Panzazo,' slang for 'barely passing,' is a dissection and call to action. The film faults teachers, parents, officials and unions.MEXICO CITY — Mexico picks a president in July, and the winner would be smart to study the lessons of a new film depicting public schools...(more)
