Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Why Sarah Lawrence Is the Most Expensive College in America (The Atlantic Wire)
• CA Senate bill mandates gay history in schools (AP)
• YouTube Is Sending Copyright Offenders Back to School [VIDEO] (Mashable)
• The Year of Waitlist Hell (The Daily Beast)
• Thousands protest budget cuts at Calif. colleges (AP)
• Peter Thiel Believes the Future Belongs to College Dropouts (The Atlantic Wire)

Why Sarah Lawrence Is the Most Expensive College in America (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:16 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Placing first in a college ranking rarely inspires college presidents to pen defenses of their institutions. But when that list documents America's most expensive colleges, the instinct makes a little more sense.

CA Senate bill mandates gay history in schools (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2011 12:05 PM PDT AP - Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people would be added to the lengthy list of social and ethnic groups that public schools must include in social studies lessons under a landmark bill passed Thursday by the California Senate.

YouTube Is Sending Copyright Offenders Back to School [VIDEO] (Mashable) Posted: 14 Apr 2011 02:00 AM PDT Mashable - YouTube has launched a campaign to educate users on copyright infringement. And it includes a feature that will require users who receive copyright notifications to watch a mandatory PSA-style video.

The Year of Waitlist Hell (The Daily Beast) Posted: 14 Apr 2011 01:47 AM PDT The Daily Beast - As college acceptance gets tougher, more applicants are put on waitlists or offered deferred admissions, which only prolongs the waiting game. And only a lucky few ever get in, writes Kristina Dell.

Thousands protest budget cuts at Calif. colleges (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2011 05:56 PM PDT AP - More than 10,000 people marched, waved signs and occupied buildings at college campuses across California on Wednesday in a show of opposition to state budget cuts to education that could lead to higher tuition, larger class sizes and lower enrollment.

Peter Thiel Believes the Future Belongs to College Dropouts (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 11 Apr 2011 02:29 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Peter Thiel wants to burn down Harvard. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but maybe not one Thiel would mind. Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and angel-investor in Facebook--Wallace Langham played him in The Social Network--would like Americans to seriously rethink the value of higher education. He thinks we have an education bubble right now, the way we had a tech bubble and a housing bubble. We believe fervently in the value of education, but our faith may be misplaced. Look at all these college graduates moving back in with their parents, kneecapped by student loans.

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