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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Students barricaded themselves inside buildings on University of California campuses to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees and budget cuts that have led to slashed programs and lost jobs....
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Schools with low-income and minority students in Los Angeles are putting new emphasis on finding gifted kids, and the search is proving fruitful....
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Starting Wednesday, the federal Education Department will begin offering a repayment plan that lets college graduates reduce their loan payments, based on their income.
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The Archdiocese of Philadelphia's announcement Friday that it was closing 45 elementary schools and four high schools set off shock waves of anger and grief that are reverberating across the region.
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A study claims pupils educated within an all-female environment are much more likely to take chances than their coed peersIf you want your daughter to be a high-flying businesswoman or banker, send her to a single-sex school. This is the startling conclusion drawn from new research...(more)
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Cornell University has won the unprecedented competition to build the city’s “genius” school, sources told the Daily News Sunday night.
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We're storing up trouble as young women are gaining new skills, while their male counterparts settle for lower-paid jobsMany Americans have come to think that poor academic performance, lack of focus and abject hooliganism are male rites of passage: dudes, we are told, wind up in...(more)
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(10-31) 13:52 PDT , (AP) -- When Carey Sommer entered foster care in California, he left his mom, his high school and his friends. Bounced from home to home, he changed high schools nine times until the disheartened...
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A ruling that an activist's language skills are insufficient for a City Council seat unsettles border towns where Spanish is used in day-to-day life. An appeal is before the state Supreme Court.For almost a decade, Alejandrina Cabrera has had no trouble speaking her mind in this...(more)
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One teacher explains why students need homework, but only the right kind of homework.
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Quinn wants law to require kids to stay in school until they're 18 Gov. Pat Quinn is pushing state lawmakers to raise the age students can legally drop out of school from 17 to 18, a move aimed at improving graduation rates but one that local...(more)
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Neddy Alvarez nervously eyes two parked police cruisers as she drives down Lorna Place in the central Las Vegas Valley. The red and blue flashing lights — visible even in the early Saturday morning light — has placed the Western High School principal and her two...(more)
