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• Minority U.S. schools have inexperienced teachers: report (Reuters)
• Civil rights data shows unequal educational access (AP)
• Report: Majority black schools have inexperienced teachers (Reuters)
• Ed Dept calls out colleges that hiked tuition by 50 percent (The Lookout)
• New Tool to Size Up the Most Expensive and Least Expensive Colleges (The Atlantic Wire)
• Prediction Tools Gauge College Admissions Chances (U.S. News & World Report)
• Singer headlines P&G anti-dropout promotion (AP)
• Traditional Higher Ed Opens Doors for Tuition-Free Online University (Mashable)

Minority U.S. schools have inexperienced teachers: report (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 02:29 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. schools with African-American students are twice as likely to have teachers with little experience as majority white schools in the same district, according to new data released on Thursday.

Civil rights data shows unequal educational access (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 01:42 PM PDT AP - Federal education officials say schools serving mostly black students are more likely to have inexperienced teachers than those largely serving whites, and few school districts have pre-kindergarten programs targeting low-income students.

Report: Majority black schools have inexperienced teachers (Reuters) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:39 PM PDT Reuters - Schools with African-American students are twice as likely to have teachers with little experience as majority white schools in the same district, according to data released by the Department of Education on Thursday.

Ed Dept calls out colleges that hiked tuition by 50 percent (The Lookout) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 11:32 AM PDT The Lookout - The Department of Education has listed the 5 percent of colleges that hiked their tuition by the largest percentages over the past three years. The new listing is part of an effort to make college pricing more transparent to young people. Northern New Mexico College, Georgia State University, San Diego State University, and Florida State [...]

New Tool to Size Up the Most Expensive and Least Expensive Colleges (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:34 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - As mandated in 2008, the Department of Education has debuted a nifty, intuitive website today to size up the most expensive and least expensive higher-education institutions by type. It's called the "College Affordability and Transparency Center" and it uses information requested from colleges nationwide to create a three-step interactive process for users to generate a list of tuition fees for public, private, for-profit and not-for-profit universities. Another potentially handy feature is the interactive list on the homepage detailing the colleges with the highest tuition rate increases over two years.

Prediction Tools Gauge College Admissions Chances (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:11 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - As a high school senior in New York City, Taylor Florio was set on his future college destination. "I always knew that I wanted to go to a California school," he says. "That was the main factor in what schools I looked at."

Singer headlines P&G anti-dropout promotion (AP) Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:01 AM PDT AP - Singer-songwriter John Legend will headline a Procter & Gamble Co. promotion to benefit dropout prevention as part of his broad support of education reform.

Traditional Higher Ed Opens Doors for Tuition-Free Online University (Mashable) Posted: 29 Jun 2011 06:09 AM PDT Mashable - Online universities have earned a reputation among traditional higher education institutions as businesses that offer low-quality degrees in exchange for hefty debt. But online University of the People challenges the stereotype. The University is completely free. Its mission is not to turn out a profit, but rather to create a truly global opportunity for education. A thousand students who live in 115 different countries are taught by the university's core of 2,000 volunteers. And traditional universities are starting to open its door to their very nontraditional free counterpart.

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