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• US educators: Engage China, but defend freedom
• 'Hour of Code' More Than Minutes for High School Students
• Top 10 earning private college presidents in 2011
• Shrinking German towns hang hopes on new private schools
• Report: Many private college presidents make $1M

US educators: Engage China, but defend freedom Posted: 16 Dec 2013 10:45 AM PST This includes China's institutions of higher learning, many of which have partnerships with American universities. President Xi Jinping's response has been to clamp down more firmly – dictating what cannot be discussed in college classrooms, reschooling teachers in the state ideology of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong thought, and punishing teachers for expressing political views that do not conform. China's educated classes know well that ignoring the Chinese Communist Party is a calculated risk, even as they feel the urgency of debating such forbidden topics as constitutional rule and the virtues of an active civil society. The problem with their calculations is that foreign universities are underestimating the leverage they have in supporting academic freedom in China even as they discount their own reputations.

'Hour of Code' More Than Minutes for High School Students Posted: 16 Dec 2013 07:53 AM PST That's the message President Barack Obama had for students in a video kicking off Computer Science Education Week on Dec. 9. Computing in the Core and Code.org, both nonprofits, held the nationwide event to honor the birthday of Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, a computer programming pioneer. High school students at Foshay Tech Academy in Los Angeles taught parents how to code. At Augustus Hawkins Critical Design and Gaming School in Los Angeles, students participating in Exploring Computer Science, a yearlong college prep program, taught their own teachers how to code.

Top 10 earning private college presidents in 2011 Posted: 16 Dec 2013 03:59 AM PST Among private college presidents, the top 10 earners in 2011, according to a report released Sunday by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Compensation is based on total pay plus benefits. Robert J. Zimmer, ...

Shrinking German towns hang hopes on new private schools Posted: 15 Dec 2013 09:34 PM PST Briesen (Germany) (AFP) - Peeling paint and boarded-up windows mark the tiny main street in the eastern German village of Briesen where a new private high school improbably stands. Briesen High School is among a growing number of private schools replacing their shuttered state predecessors, closed when enrolment sinks too low, as local communities look for new ways to grapple with the impact of an ageing population. "The state has completely abandoned the region," said Peter Stumm, long-time head of the Briesen area's local council. Private schools are on the rise nationwide but the increase is especially strong -- nearly doubling from 2000 to 2011 -- in the ex-communist East, where the demographic crunch is felt the most.

Report: Many private college presidents make $1M Posted: 15 Dec 2013 05:56 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents at 42 private colleges scaled the $1 million annual mark in total pay and benefits in 2011 — a slight bump from the year before, according to a survey based on the latest federal tax information from the 500 private schools with the largest endowments.

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