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• Texas governor offers school grants to spur sharing (Reuters)
• Wen says rote learning must go in Chinese schools (Reuters)
• Private colleges 'act local' with financial aid (AP)
• Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform (The Christian Science Monitor)

Texas governor offers school grants to spur sharing (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:34 PM PDT Reuters - Texas schools that cut bureaucratic costs by sharing services -- from accounting to transportation -- would get grants worth 10 percent of their savings under a plan Governor Rick Perry proposed on Tuesday.

Wen says rote learning must go in Chinese schools (Reuters) Posted: 31 Aug 2010 02:04 AM PDT Reuters - Chinese schools have to get their students to be creative and think for themselves, Premier Wen Jiabao told officials, in reference to the rote-learning deeply ingrained in the national education system.

Private colleges 'act local' with financial aid (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2010 09:00 PM PDT AP - Hoping to portray themselves as more affordable and all-around better neighbors, private colleges from Appalachia to Boston are sweetening financial aid packages for students from their own backyards.

Education secretary Arne Duncan: headmaster of US school reform (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Aug 2010 11:06 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Growing up in Chicago, Arne Duncan learned early that education was a stark dividing line â€Â" sometimes literally between life and death.

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