2009年7月21日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Calif. university system OKs 20 percent fee hike (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 05:34 PM PDT

AP - The California State University system raised student fees Tuesday by 20 percent as part of a budget plan that would also shrink enrollment and furlough nearly all employees for two days a month.

Sallie Mae 2Q loss attributed to investment losses (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:29 PM PDT

AP - SLM Corp., better known as Sallie Mae, said Tuesday investment losses pushed it to a loss for the second quarter.

House panel approves increase in Pell Grants (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 02:51 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's plan to boost Pell Grants for low-income college students cleared the House education committee Tuesday, the first step down a long and potentially rocky path through Congress.

Obama sees "battle" as financial plan forges ahead (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 01:43 PM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration advanced its financial regulation reform agenda on Tuesday, moving ahead on reshaping the $92-billion student loan market and unveiling a proposed shake-up for credit rating agencies.

Bill Gates: Better data mean better schools (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 01:06 PM PDT

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates makes remarks at the National Conference of State Legislatures held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Gates said in his speech that the U.S. needs better ways to measure student and teacher performance to improve its schools. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - The U.S. must improve its educational standing in the world by rewarding effective teaching and by developing better, universal measures of performance for students and teachers, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Tuesday.

House committee backs Obama student loan reform (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 12:17 PM PDT

Reuters - The $92-billion U.S. college student loan market would be fundamentally reshaped under a bill approved on Tuesday by a congressional committee, which sent the measure on to the full House of Representatives.

U-M, Amazon offer 400K titles with print-on-demand (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 11:11 AM PDT

AP - The University of Michigan says it's teaming up with Amazon.com to offer reprints of 400,000 rare and out-of-print books from its library that no longer are under copyright.

Obama's Plan for Community Colleges (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 09:29 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at Macomb Community College Tuesday, July 14, 2009, in Warren, Mich. President Obama is proposing a multibillion-dollar investment in the nation's community colleges, a $12 billion effort to help the two-year institutions reach, teach and train more people for 'the jobs of the future.' (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)U.S. News & World Report - In the days since President Obama announced plans to invest an unprecedented $12 billion in the nation's community colleges, he has received praise for training the national spotlight on institutions he says are too frequently "treated like the ugly stepchild of the higher-education system." But the shimmer of that spotlight already has started to fade, and critics are raising questions about whether the president's goal to rebuild the economy by helping 5 million more Americans graduate from two-year schools is feasible, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

U.S. back-to-school spending seen dropping: survey (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:01 AM PDT

Reuters - U.S. consumers will spend 8.5 percent to 12 percent less this year on back-to-school items than they did last year, as cash-strapped parents try to get children to wear last year's fashions, a retail industry monitor said on Tuesday.

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