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• College presidents say online courses are just as good as in-person instruction (The Lookout)
• NY comptroller nixes school deal with Murdoch co. (AP)
• A different kind of college rankings: The top 10 that give back (The Lookout)

College presidents say online courses are just as good as in-person instruction (The Lookout) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 10:35 AM PDT The Lookout - Is taking a college course over the Internet just as good as attending an in-person seminar? The nation's college presidents think so. Slightly more than half of 1,055 presidents of public and private colleges said that an online-only course has the same educational value as an in-person class, according to the Pew Research Center and [...]

NY comptroller nixes school deal with Murdoch co. (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:05 AM PDT AP - New York's comptroller has spiked a $27 million contract with one of media giant Rupert Murdoch's companies because of the phone hacking scandal in Great Britain.

A different kind of college rankings: The top 10 that give back (The Lookout) Posted: 29 Aug 2011 05:41 AM PDT The Lookout - We give colleges billions in public subsidies--but what are they doing for us? That's what editors at Washington Monthly aimed to find out with their unusual college rankings, released today. The Monthly's roster of schools rates them not on the basis of how exclusive they are, but on how much they help their communities and [...]

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