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• Bachmann delivers evangelical message at Liberty U (AP)
• U. of Ill. finds more law school data problems (AP)
• 2 adults dead in murder-suicide at Calif. school (AP)
• Amid controversy, some Chicago schools choose a longer day (Reuters)
• Obama urges students to keep learning to help U.S. (Reuters)
• Yale tops Harvard with 21.9 percent investment return (Reuters)
• Education Department seeks to ease new program approval process (Reuters)

Bachmann delivers evangelical message at Liberty U (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2011 05:19 PM PDT AP - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Wednesday told Christian students at Liberty University in Virginia "don't settle" for easy personal and political choices in life.

U. of Ill. finds more law school data problems (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2011 04:29 PM PDT AP - An ongoing investigation into the use of inflated grades and entrance-exam scores in University of Illinois law school marketing material found inaccurate data was posted online for the four most recent classes, university officials said Wednesday.

2 adults dead in murder-suicide at Calif. school (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2011 02:18 PM PDT AP - An apparent murder-suicide that left a man and a woman dead forced the lockdown of a Southern California high school on Wednesday, authorities said. No students were injured.

Amid controversy, some Chicago schools choose a longer day (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2011 02:04 PM PDT Reuters - Starting this week at Nash Elementary on Chicago's west side, students are getting up to 23 minutes more of math and 27 minutes more of language arts.

Obama urges students to keep learning to help U.S. (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2011 12:52 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama urged students on Wednesday to pursue learning after high school to brighten the United States' future and restore its preeminence in education.

Yale tops Harvard with 21.9 percent investment return (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2011 11:00 AM PDT Reuters - Yale University's endowment earned a 21.9 percent investment return last year with foreign stocks and private equity investments fueling gains, the Ivy League school said on Wednesday.

Education Department seeks to ease new program approval process (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2011 07:43 AM PDT Reuters - The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday proposed to make approval procedure for new programs easier under the 'gainful employment' education rules, which was finalized last October, to make for-profit education companies more accountable for federal aid.

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