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• US House reinstates DC school voucher program (AP)
• Jury set to get NJ schoolyard triple-murder case (AP)
• First lady Michelle Obama speaks at DC school (AP)
• Avoid Loan Delinquency and Default (U.S. News & World Report)
• ROTC returns to Harvard: Does officer training program need Ivy League? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• 10 College Admissions Trends (The Daily Beast)
• Virginia Tech faces $55,000 fine for 2007 shootings response (Reuters)

US House reinstates DC school voucher program (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:43 PM PDT AP - The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to reinstate school vouchers for District of Columbia students, reviving the only program that uses federal tax dollars to subsidize private-school tuition.

Jury set to get NJ schoolyard triple-murder case (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:05 PM PDT AP - Attorneys painted sharply contrasting pictures Wednesday of a man on trial for the slayings of three college students in a crime that shocked the violence-plagued city of Newark in 2007 and galvanized support for a host of anti-crime measures.

First lady Michelle Obama speaks at DC school (AP) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:01 PM PDT AP - First lady Michelle Obama urged high school students to think about their career goals and the job market before deciding what kind of education to pursue.

Avoid Loan Delinquency and Default (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:54 AM PDT U.S. News & World Report - Caveat emptor! Your student loan documents probably do not explicitly state "let the buyer beware"--but maybe they should. A sobering report released this month by the Institute for Higher Education Policy, "Delinquency: The Untold Story of Student Loan Borrowing," suggests that a majority of students struggle to repay their loans.

ROTC returns to Harvard: Does officer training program need Ivy League? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 09:27 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - When Harvard put out the welcome mat earlier this month to reestablish a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, it signaled a thawing of chilly relations between the military and elite universities that date back to the Vietnam War.

10 College Admissions Trends (The Daily Beast) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 11:07 PM PDT The Daily Beast - At 5 p.m. today, Ivy League schools will notify their lucky applicants—the precious few admitted in the toughest admissions year ever. From soaring waitlists to a Southern boom, Kristina Dell on 10 trends.

Virginia Tech faces $55,000 fine for 2007 shootings response (Reuters) Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:15 PM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Department of Education said on Tuesday it will fine Virginia Tech $55,000 for waiting more than two hours to alert the campus of an April 2007 shooting.

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