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• Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences (AP)
• Agency places shotgun order: FBI? No, Education Department (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Colo. school shooting suspect says he heard voices (AP)
• Democrats look to resurrect college aid plan (AP)
• Obama's proposed student loan overhaul gets boost (Reuters)
• Student loans to be in healthcare package: Pelosi (Reuters)
• DoD to resume education grants to military spouses (AP)
• Brigham Young University Is Nation's Most Popular National University (U.S. News & World Report)

Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2010 04:20 PM PST AP - A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.

Agency places shotgun order: FBI? No, Education Department (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 12 Mar 2010 03:52 PM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Schools may be gun-free zones, but the U.S. Department of Education is locked and loaded.

Colo. school shooting suspect says he heard voices (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2010 03:22 PM PST AP - The voices Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood thought were coming from a television box haunted him for years, and he told sheriff's deputies he continued to hear them the day he took a rifle to his old middle school and wounded two students.

Democrats look to resurrect college aid plan (AP) Posted: 12 Mar 2010 02:05 PM PST AP - Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill, giving both Obama administration priorities a better chance of passage.

Obama's proposed student loan overhaul gets boost (Reuters) Posted: 12 Mar 2010 01:10 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama's stalled bid to overhaul the federal student loan program by cutting subsidies to private lenders and increasing aid to students received a boost on Friday.

Student loans to be in healthcare package: Pelosi (Reuters) Posted: 12 Mar 2010 08:49 AM PST Reuters - House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday the final version of a broad healthcare overhaul would include a revamp of the student loan program but not a government-run health insurance option.

DoD to resume education grants to military spouses (AP) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 10:36 AM PST AP - Facing a phalanx of angry military spouses, the Defense Department said Thursday it will resume payments for college courses and job training for spouses who had already applied for grants when the popular program was abruptly halted last month.

Brigham Young University Is Nation's Most Popular National University (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 11 Mar 2010 08:59 AM PST U.S. News & World Report - This year, Brigham Young University supplanted Harvard University as the most popular national university in America, according to an analysis of yield (the percentage of students accepted to a school who opt to attend) by U.S.News & World Report. For BYU, ranked 71st in U.S. News's ranking of the nation's best national universities, 78 percent of students who were accepted chose to attend. Harvard finished a close second, with 76 percent of accepted students opting to attend the nation's most selective university.

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