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- Summary Box: Yahoo CEO faces possible firing
- US announces changes to troubled exchange program for foreign college students
- Hawaii teachers union to revisit rejected contract
- Striking new tone, Chris Christie says education reform is led by GOP
- Obama: For-profit colleges should stop targeting troops, veterans
| Summary Box: Yahoo CEO faces possible firing Posted: JOB IN JEOPARDY: Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson could be fired after just four months at the struggling Internet company because he allowed an inaccuracy about his college education to appear in his official bio, including a version filed with securities regulators. |
| US announces changes to troubled exchange program for foreign college students Posted: JACKSON, Miss. - The U.S. State Department says it is making major changes to its premier student-exchange program following an investigation by The Associated Press that found widespread abuses. |
| Hawaii teachers union to revisit rejected contract Posted: Hawaii's teachers union has embarked on the unprecedented move of asking its members to revisit a contract they rejected earlier this year, as part of an effort to prevent the state from losing a $75 million federal grant it received to carry out education reforms. |
| Striking new tone, Chris Christie says education reform is led by GOP Posted: Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, said Thursday that Republican politicians are leading the way for better educational opportunities for poor and minority children through voucher programs for private schools, while Democrats passively stand by or obstruct their efforts. The partisan framing of his education agenda is a bit of a departure from [...] |
| Obama: For-profit colleges should stop targeting troops, veterans Posted: President Barack Obama moved Friday to shield American troops from unscrupulous for-profit colleges that he said bilk soldiers out of their educational benefits and dupe them into taking out expensive loans. Speaking to cheering soldiers at Fort Stewart, Georgia, Obama promised "an America that will forever fight for you, just as you fought for us" [...] |
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