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• Loss of accreditation worries parents of Kansas City students (Reuters)
• College admissions officials say goal is to recruit students who pay more (The Lookout)
• Is school more boring than ever? (The Lookout)
• Muslim students' speech trial goes to Calif jury (AP)

Loss of accreditation worries parents of Kansas City students (Reuters) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 01:38 PM PDT Reuters - Officials reassured parents on Wednesday that the Kansas City School District's loss of accreditation will not keep students from getting high school diplomas.

College admissions officials say goal is to recruit students who pay more (The Lookout) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:20 AM PDT The Lookout - Admissions officers say one of their main goals for the next few years is to recruit students who pay more in tuition, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education survey of 462 top admissions officials at nonprofit universities. Survey respondents said they placed a higher priority on recruiting out-of-state students--who would pay higher tuitions than [...]

Is school more boring than ever? (The Lookout) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 06:05 AM PDT The Lookout - Has our education system's laser-like focus on lifting standardized math and reading scores made school impossibly boring? That's the argument of Daniel Denvir at Salon, who points to recent studies that suggest the average kid in public school is receiving less instruction time in non-tested subjects such as art, music, and physical education since the [...]

Muslim students' speech trial goes to Calif jury (AP) Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:19 AM PDT AP - A jury is considering the limits of free speech as it deliberates in the trial of 10 Muslim students charged with disrupting a speech by an Israeli diplomat at the University of California, Irvine.

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