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• Colleges, It’s Time to Admit You Have a Problem
• Harvard Says It Spied on Teachers to Save Them
• Israeli kids hurt by teachers' name-calling

Colleges, It’s Time to Admit You Have a Problem Posted: 11 Mar 2013 11:24 AM PDT Growing up, I did exactly what was expected of me. I worked hard through high school and was the first in my family to graduate from college, thanks to the federal Pell Grant, an academic scholarship and work-study program.

Harvard Says It Spied on Teachers to Save Them Posted: 11 Mar 2013 10:17 AM PDT Harvard isn't sorry for snooping through the emails of more than a dozen of its own deans. On Monday the university issued a length statement explaining why it secretly sifted through the Harvard.edu email accounts of as many as 16 deans who received a confidential email discussing the procedure by which students who were implicated in last year's massive cheating ring would be adjudicated. And, well, the explanation is pretty thin: They spied to save!

Israeli kids hurt by teachers' name-calling Posted: 11 Mar 2013 09:31 AM PDT JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Students at an Israeli high school were in an uproar on Monday after a teacher mistakenly sent them an internal email that spelled out what faculty members really thought about them. "Not too bright", "Liar", "Tactless", "Big Baby", "Anti-social", "Has a thing for boys" and "Sick-o" were some of the descriptions on an Excel spreadsheet that landed in students' email boxes. Protesting outside the Yitzhak Rabin High School in Kfar Saba, a town north of Tel Aviv, students pinned some of those descriptions on their shirts and demanded an apology, which its principal made. ...

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