Topic: United States
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Student Republicans at the University of California at Berkeley have stirred up the famously left-wing campus with plans for a sale of baked goods priced according to the race and gender of buyers.A Facebook promotion of the event, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New student enrollment at U.S. graduate schools fell in 2010 for the first time since the autumn of 2003, according to a new report.The decrease came despite a more than eight percent increase in applications, said the report from ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New student enrollment at U.S. graduate schools fell in 2010 for the first time since the fall of 2003, according to a report released on Thursday.The decrease came despite a more than eight percent increase in applications, said the ...
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - A federal appeals court began reviewing a lower court order on Monday that would end state payments to Arkansas public schools that began over two decades ago to aid in desegregation efforts.Arkansas has one of the nation's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public and private universities across the United States have been struggling with endowment losses, thin liquidity, declining gifts, reduced state help and resistance to tuition hikes since 2008, Moody's Investors Services said on Monday.These problems have spurred an increase ...
States should do more to protect integrity of standardized testsMore than 170 teachers and administrators in Atlanta public schools are accused of participating in cheating on standardized tests to inflate student achievement.Teachers and administrators allegedly erased answers on students' standardized tests and ...
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Some 3,778 Indiana students have signed up to receive private school tuition money under a new and controversial state-wide voucher program, with a week to go before a September 16 deadline.Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett said he ...
A new report that crunches the numbers on the missed earning potential of college dropouts says failing to graduate results in millions of dollars in lost income and tax revenue that could have helped spur economic development in Nevada and across the ...
KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - As the school year resumes next week, Missouri teachers will have to think twice about making private contact with students on Internet sites such as Facebook.The state's school districts are under orders to draft policies to comply with ...
One of the biggest complaints Nevada educators have about the federal initiative to improve classroom education, No Child Left Behind, is that its higher and higher standards have left more and more schools falling behind, panting to catch up.On Monday, Nevada schools ...
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