Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Does Obama's Education Plan Make the Grade? (Time.com)
• NCAA Men's Basketball Graduation Rate Disparity Between Races Grows (U.S. News & World Report)
• Obama health bill would reshape student loans (AFP)
• Could school bus ads save school budgets? (AP)
• Student aid linked to health care gets a trim (AP)
• No Child Left Behind: Obama overhaul takes flak from both parties (The Christian Science Monitor)

Does Obama's Education Plan Make the Grade? (Time.com) Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:00 PM PDT Time.com - The President's plan for education reform is a good start. Here's how to make it even better

NCAA Men's Basketball Graduation Rate Disparity Between Races Grows (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:58 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - While college basketball players graduate at a higher rate than nonathletes, the NAACP and the Department of Education argue that universities are leaving some of their student-athletes behind. Their concern arises from the expanding fissure between graduation rates of white and African-American college basketball players. ...

Obama health bill would reshape student loans (AFP) Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:57 AM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama's historic health care legislation, set to face a make-or-break vote on Sunday, would also reshape the way Americans pay for famously pricey college educations.

Could school bus ads save school budgets? (AP) Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:19 AM PDT AP - School districts have imposed all sorts of drastic cuts to save money during the down economy, canceling field trips and making parents pay for everything from tissues to sports transportation.

Student aid linked to health care gets a trim (AP) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 08:04 PM PDT AP - Congressional Democrats on Thursday trimmed their original student loan plans, reduced spending for community colleges, and eliminated early childhood money from a broad rewrite of a college aid bill piggybacked on to fast-track health care legislation.

No Child Left Behind: Obama overhaul takes flak from both parties (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Mar 2010 05:29 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - National lawmakers quizzed Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Wednesday about the Obama administration’s blueprint for overhauling the No Child Left Behind federal education law.

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