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• The Internet Is Making Writing Worse
• Correction: Penn State-Education Investigation
• Report Reveals Student Loans, College Aid on the Rise
• Students, Teachers to Hitch Ride on NASA’s 'Vomit Comet' for Weightless Science

The Internet Is Making Writing Worse Posted: 17 Jul 2013 01:07 PM PDT Bad news for teens and tweens! A new Pew Research survey of teachers around the country found that today's digital technologies like the internet, texting and social networks make middle school and high school students likely to perform a number of academic atrocities, including using informal language in formal papers and plagiarizing. Students also have trouble reading long texts and forming complex arguments. So basically, everything everyone suspected is turning out to be true.

Correction: Penn State-Education Investigation Posted: 17 Jul 2013 10:07 AM PDT HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — In a story July 15 about Penn State's receipt of a preliminary federal report on whether it complied with campus crime-reporting requirements, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the university said it was not permitted by law to release information about the report at this time. Penn State said the Department of Education was prohibited from disclosing details of the report, and the university was choosing to keep them confidential.

Report Reveals Student Loans, College Aid on the Rise Posted: 17 Jul 2013 08:00 AM PDT The report "The Condition of Education 2013," recently released by the Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics, is a fascinating, if daunting, statistical deep dive into every aspect of secondary and postsecondary education in the United States.

Students, Teachers to Hitch Ride on NASA’s 'Vomit Comet' for Weightless Science Posted: 17 Jul 2013 04:56 AM PDT College students and K-12 teachers are set to take a ride on a "Vomit Comet" this week in the name of science.

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