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• Audit: ND university awarded unearned degrees (AP)
• Nazi Flag in Marine Photo Shows Need for History Education (ContributorNetwork)
• No Child Left Behind waivers: five ways education will change (The Christian Science Monitor)
• No Child Left Behind Waiver States Need a Success Plan (ContributorNetwork)
• Florida offers look at problems with education law (AP)
• A guide to No Child Left Behind (AP)
• Leaving 'No Child' law: Obama lets 10 states flee (AP)

Audit: ND university awarded unearned degrees (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:54 PM PST AP - Facing pressure to bring in more students as North Dakota's booming oil industry made it tougher to coax new high school graduates into college, Dickinson State University began looking overseas to boost its enrollment.

Nazi Flag in Marine Photo Shows Need for History Education (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:20 AM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | A spokeswoman has insisted a controversial photo of Marine sniper scouts in Afghanistan with a flag bearing the Nazi Waffen SS emblem is the result of naivete and the Marines will not be punished, reports The Atlantic Wire. Ten Marines are arranged around an American flag and the flag with the Waffen SS' double "lightning bolt" runes.

No Child Left Behind waivers: five ways education will change (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:12 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor -

No Child Left Behind Waiver States Need a Success Plan (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:30 AM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Ten states were granted waivers from the requirements of No Child Left Behind, according to CNN. The states are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee. The waivers were granted in exchange for commitments to bring about improvements in education -- but how?

Florida offers look at problems with education law (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2012 03:15 AM PST AP - Yet when it comes to the federal No Child Left Behind law, the school hasn't lived up to expectations. Last year, 79 percent of students had to be at grade level in reading and 80 percent in math. Overall, the students exceeded those goals. But two groups — English language learners and the economically disadvantaged — did not.

A guide to No Child Left Behind (AP) Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:58 AM PST AP - Ten states now have President Barack Obama's OK to scrap one of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education — that all students measure up in reading and math by 2014. In exchange, the states had to promise they would raise standards and develop more creative ways to measure what students are learning.

Leaving 'No Child' law: Obama lets 10 states flee (AP) Posted: 09 Feb 2012 09:09 PM PST AP - It could be the beginning of the end for No Child Left Behind.

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