2011年2月25日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Education News


California headed for cuts for for-profit students (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 03:08 PM PST

Reuters - California's student aid commission said on Friday that aid funds going to students at for-profit schools should be slashed first when the state cuts its education budget.

Calif. driver arrested in fatal crash near school (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 02:07 PM PST

AP - Police on Friday arrested the driver accused of running a stop sign and plowing into a group of middle school students in Central California.

Harvard, Princeton Go Back to Early Admissions (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 01:50 PM PST

U.S. News & World Report - Officials at Harvard University and Princeton University announced Thursday they would return to offering early admissions for prospective students whose first choice is one of the Ivy League schools. Both schools had eliminated their early admissions programs in 2006 for students applying in 2007, saying they provided unnecessary hurdles for economically disadvantaged students.

DA: Grand jury had enough to charge boy with rape (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 01:42 PM PST

AP - Prosecutors in the case of a teen charged with statutory rape in connection with the suicide of a 15-year-old Massachusetts girl who was bullied acknowledged Friday that the girl's birthdate wasn't given to a grand jury that indicted the boy.

Schools boost efforts to ID fake student addresses (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 06:53 AM PST

Kelley Williams-Bolar, right, works with lawyer Angelina Jackson, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011, in their law offices in Cincinnati. Williams-Bolar was accused of felony records tampering after prosecutors said she used her father’s address to enroll her daughters in the suburban Copley-Fairlawn district in Akron, Ohio. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)AP - Kelley Williams-Bolar, alarmed after her home was broken into, yanked her two daughters out of their urban Akron, Ohio, schools and enrolled them in her father's suburban school district nearby, using his address.


Mint.com Adds More to 'Get Out of Debt' (PC Magazine)

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 01:01 AM PST

PC Magazine - Personal finance site finds users worry most about student loans, credit cards.
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