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• Police: Arson claims old 1-room Vt. schoolhouse (AP)
• Chart: College Tuition Will Not Stop Rising (The Atlantic Wire)
• Ala. schools: Hispanic students return despite law (AP)
• Villanova censured for inflating GPAs, LSAT scores (AP)
• No Wonder Everybody Wants to Study Computer Science (The Atlantic Wire)

Police: Arson claims old 1-room Vt. schoolhouse (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT AP - Police say a historic one-room schoolhouse in Vermont has been destroyed by arson.

Chart: College Tuition Will Not Stop Rising (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 03:36 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Related: America's Newspaper History Gets Mapped

Ala. schools: Hispanic students return despite law (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:38 PM PDT AP - Educators say Alabama's tough new crackdown on illegal immigrants isn't keeping Hispanic parents from sending their children to school, despite opponents' fears over a novel provision requiring educators to determine the immigration status of students.

Villanova censured for inflating GPAs, LSAT scores (AP) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 01:27 PM PDT AP - The law school at Villanova University has been censured for submitting falsified admissions data for several years to the American Bar Association, allegedly at the behest of former administrators.

No Wonder Everybody Wants to Study Computer Science (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 16 Aug 2011 11:14 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - You know a class is popular when enrollment numbers hit the five-digit mark. A new course on artificial intelligence at Stanford University taught be ex-Googlers did just that, attracting a jaw-dropping 58,000 students. The fact that the course is being offered free and online certainly helped boost the enrollment number, which is exactly what Stanford was going for. The popular new course is one of three that will be offered in conjunction with a Stanford experiment to broaden the university's reach and get more people interested in technology. But according to recent reports about the job market, people might not need that much motivation.

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