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• Raise College Student Loan Interest Rates
• Suu Kyi holds no grudges against jailers
• University of Virginia Reinstates President, But Colleges Face More Drama Ahead
• Report creates winners, losers in education stocks
• Feds: For-profits could lose federal student aid
• Most for-profit college programs may sail through new rule
• New Group Wants to Bring White-Space Broadband To Rural Colleges
• Grow up: Life Has Trade-offs
• For-profit colleges could lose federal student aid
• National education reform group's spending shown

Raise College Student Loan Interest Rates Posted: 26 Jun 2012 04:20 PM PDT COMMENTARY | If the federal college student loan interest rate rises to 6.8 percent, which isn't likely, that's fine with me because if students and their families are worried about higher education costs, they should give more consideration to lower-cost community colleges.

Suu Kyi holds no grudges against jailers Posted: 26 Jun 2012 02:33 PM PDT Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Tuesday that she holds no grudges against the military regime that kept her under house arrest for some 15 years and, instead, views it as a group she can work with as the country moves toward democracy.

University of Virginia Reinstates President, But Colleges Face More Drama Ahead Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:10 PM PDT Trustees at the University of Virginia voted unanimously on Tuesday to reinstate the president they ousted just two weeks ago. But while the decision to restore Teresa Sullivan to the position she had held since August 2010 brings to an end days of swirling uncertainty, speculation and campus protests, the issues the drama brought to the forefront are likely to echo across college campuses nationwide for months to come.

Report creates winners, losers in education stocks Posted: 26 Jun 2012 10:58 AM PDT The market showed a mixed reaction to a federal report released Tuesday on career training, which found that 5 percent of programs at for-profit colleges do not meet the U.S Department of Education's new rules designed to make sure students can get jobs and pay off student debt.

Feds: For-profits could lose federal student aid Posted: 26 Jun 2012 09:20 AM PDT Former students in career-training programs at dozens of for-profit institutions have had so much trouble paying off their loans that the schools could lose access to federal student aid if they don't improve, new data from the U.S. Department of Education finds.

Most for-profit college programs may sail through new rule Posted: 26 Jun 2012 08:38 AM PDT (Reuters) - Most programs at for-profit colleges, including those at Apollo Group and Strayer Education Inc, could clear new rule requirements, according to latest data on loan repayment by students released by the Department of Education. Shares of Apollo jumped 9 percent, while Strayer's were up 6 percent on Tuesday morning. The S&P Education sub-index rose 6 percent, also helped by strong results posted by Apollo on Monday. "Overall this data was better than expected," said analyst Jerry Herman of Stifel Nicolaus. ...

New Group Wants to Bring White-Space Broadband To Rural Colleges Posted: 26 Jun 2012 05:49 AM PDT A new partnership plans to bring wireless broadband to rural college communities over the unused spectrum between licensed television stations that are known as "white spaces". It's called AIR.U, short for Advanced Internet Regions.

Grow up: Life Has Trade-offs Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT Anne-Marie Slaughter's eye-catching Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," is being greeted with a certain reverse snobbery. We've been reminded that the choices and challenges of women with advanced degrees are hardly typical and not the sort of thing that should divert us from the problems of the middle class.

For-profit colleges could lose federal student aid Posted: 25 Jun 2012 11:40 PM PDT Former students in career-training programs at dozens of for-profit institutions have had so much trouble paying off their loans that the schools could lose access to federal student aid if they don't improve, new data from the U.S. Department of Education finds.

National education reform group's spending shown Posted: 25 Jun 2012 05:04 PM PDT (Reuters) - The national education reform group StudentsFirst, which has set out to transform U.S. schools by introducing more free-market principles to public education, raised $7.6 million in its first nine months - and spent nearly a quarter of it on advertising - according to partial tax records released on Monday. Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools, launched StudentsFirst in the fall of 2010 with the stated goal of raising $1 billion over five years. ...

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