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• Oklahoma and West Virginia Left Out of Education Grants 'Lottery'
• USNH, community colleges focus on tech grads
• Higher education: Humboldt State University launches marijuana institute
• 10 Colleges With Largest Financial Endowments
• Writing bills, finding funds: Bush's foundation at work

Oklahoma and West Virginia Left Out of Education Grants 'Lottery' Posted: 27 Nov 2012 02:39 PM PST The U.S. Department of Education has $400 million in grant funds available to what will be 20 or so finalists from around the nation to improve education in innovative and ambitious ways. Neither Oklahoma nor West Virginia will be seeing any of those grant dollars.

USNH, community colleges focus on tech grads Posted: 27 Nov 2012 01:28 PM PST Working harder to hold onto already interested students is faster and less expensive than recruiting newcomers when it comes to increasing the number of science, technology, engineering and math degrees, a national education expert told New Hampshire education leaders Tuesday.

Higher education: Humboldt State University launches marijuana institute Posted: 27 Nov 2012 07:56 AM PST Humboldt County, California, "the heartland of high-grade marijuana farming" in the Golden State according to The New Yorker, now boasts the first and — for now — only academic institute dedicated solely to cannabis.

10 Colleges With Largest Financial Endowments Posted: 27 Nov 2012 07:05 AM PST The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short List: Grad School to find data that matters to you in your college or grad school search.

Writing bills, finding funds: Bush's foundation at work Posted: 26 Nov 2012 10:18 PM PST (Reuters) - Soon after leaving office in 2007, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush launched the Foundation for Excellence in Education to "ignite a movement of reform, state by state." A close examination of the foundation's work, including a review of thousands of pages of email, shows the staff of two dozen has worked aggressively - if not always with immediate success - to shape public policy. Last fall the foundation flew Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen and other state schools chiefs to San Francisco for a three-day policy summit on topics ranging from online learning to teacher tenure. ...

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