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• Probe finds fraud in U.S. distance education (Reuters)
• 2 identified in Calif. parking lot murder-suicide (AP)
• Students in early classes get better grades: study (Reuters)
• S&P revises outlook for Chicago schools to stable (Reuters)
• Coming Together to Kill Education Reform (Time.com)
• Shrinking Texas school payrolls add to unemployed (AP)
• SAT cheating scandal: Are stakes getting too high for college admission? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Probe finds fraud in U.S. distance education (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 01:31 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General (OIG) identified a "serious vulnerability" in distance education programs due to frauds committed by students and recommended a stricter enrollment process for colleges.

2 identified in Calif. parking lot murder-suicide (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:45 AM PDT AP - A murder-suicide in the parking lot at Patriot High School, which forced a three-hour school lockdown and alarmed some witnesses, involved a school volunteer and her husband.

Students in early classes get better grades: study (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 08:49 AM PDT Reuters - Given the chance most university students would opt to schedule late classes so they can sleep longer but new research shows pupils who take early classes are more likely to get higher grades.

S&P revises outlook for Chicago schools to stable (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 07:47 AM PDT Reuters - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Thursday revised the outlook on the AA-minus general obligation bond rating of the Chicago Board of Education to stable from negative.

Coming Together to Kill Education Reform (Time.com) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 04:30 AM PDT Time.com - A new consensus is emerging in education politics. But can the center hold? And would reformers even want it to?

Shrinking Texas school payrolls add to unemployed (AP) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 12:06 AM PDT AP - The $4 billion in cuts to Texas public schools this summer might be starting to hit Gov. Rick Perry where it hurts most — his record on creating jobs.

SAT cheating scandal: Are stakes getting too high for college admission? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 28 Sep 2011 01:09 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The case of a Great Neck, N.Y., man accused of being paid to take the SAT for high school students is once again prompting questions nationwide about how much cheating goes on in the world of high-stakes testing.

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