2013年5月9日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Wis. budget gets $500M anticipated revenue boost

Posted: 09 May 2013 02:53 PM PDT

Wisconsin's budget surplus grew by $500 million Thursday, leading to a bipartisan call by state lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker to put some of the money toward public schools two years after funding was ...

'Sugar Man' Rodriguez gets honorary degree

Posted: 09 May 2013 12:48 PM PDT

Wayne State University Board of Governors Paul Massaron, left, and Sandra Hughes O'Brien confer a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree to Sixto Rodriguez, Thursday, May 9, 2013 in Detroit, during the university's commencement. Rodriguez's two albums in the early 1970s received little attention in the United States but he unknowingly developed a cult following in South Africa during the apartheid era. He was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, "Searching for Sugar Man.".(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)DETROIT (AP) — Wayne State University had no idea that a folk hero was in its midst when the Detroit school awarded Sixto Rodriguez a philosophy degree in 1981.


Column: Poor little rich kids

Posted: 09 May 2013 10:30 AM PDT

By Chrystia Freeland NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you doubt that we live in a winner-take-all economy and that education is the trump card, consider the vast amounts the affluent spend to teach their offspring. We see it anecdotally in the soaring fees for private schools, private lessons and private tutors, many of them targeted at the preschool set. And recent academic research has confirmed what many of us overhear at the school gates or read on mommy blogs. ...

Delgado, Nunez community colleges to lay off staff

Posted: 09 May 2013 05:48 AM PDT

The governing board for Delgado Community College in New Orleans and Nunez Community College in Chalmette approved plans Wednesday that will result in layoffs at both schools and the cutting of 15 academic ...

Why Historically Black Colleges Are in Serious Trouble

Posted: 08 May 2013 06:00 PM PDT

Historically black colleges and universities are about to have a mess on their hands. Because of a sharp change to a student loan policy, enrollment has dramatically dropped. This is not good for the schools—or hopeful high school graduates.
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