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Ohio police have identified suspects in fake ALS bucket attack
Reform candidate closes gap in race to be California schools chief: poll
Colleges, Employers Team Up to Train, Hire High-Tech Workers
10 Most, Least Pricey Private Colleges and Universities
Princeton, Williams Take Top Spots in U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings
Asian parents underwrite weak education spending: OECD
2015 Best Colleges: Top 20 National Liberal Arts Colleges
2015 Best Colleges: Top 20 National Universities

Ohio police have identified suspects in fake ALS bucket attack

Posted: 09 Sep 2014 03:45 PM PDT

By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - High school students responsible for dumping a bucket containing water, urine and spit on a teenage boy with autism in a fake ALS "Ice Bucket Challenge" have been identified, police said on Tuesday. Police did not release the names of the teenagers suspected in the attack that generated offers of rewards for information leading to their identification from comedian Drew Carey, a Cleveland native, and others. The group doused a 14-year-old boy with autism with the fouled water in Bay Village, a suburb west of Cleveland, and posted a video of the incident to Instagram, Bay Village police said in a statement. His mother reported the attack on Sept. 3 "We are appalled by the actions of the youth involved in the assault on this young man," police said.

Reform candidate closes gap in race to be California schools chief: poll

Posted: 09 Sep 2014 12:34 PM PDT

By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - A former charter school executive aiming to unseat California's education chief is in a statistical tie in a race shaping up to be a proxy war between school reform advocates and the state's powerful teachers unions, a poll showed on Tuesday. The poll conducted last month by San Francisco-based Field Research Corp had challenger Marshall Tuck three percentage points ahead of incumbent Tom Torlakson - but was within the survey's margin of error and thus represented a dead heat in the contest.

Colleges, Employers Team Up to Train, Hire High-Tech Workers

Posted: 09 Sep 2014 06:30 AM PDT

Tom Hubschman adjusts his safety glasses as sparks fly from the computer-controlled plasma torch slicing through a piece of metal. The Boston University mechanical engineering major is working on his senior design project in the school's 9-month-old Engineering Product Innovation Center. These riches are the result of a collaboration with four big partners -- General Electric Aviation, Schlumberger, Procter & Gamble and technology company PTC -- plus a substantial investment by the university.

10 Most, Least Pricey Private Colleges and Universities

Posted: 09 Sep 2014 06:00 AM PDT

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 matter to you in your college or grad school search.

Princeton, Williams Take Top Spots in U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings

Posted: 09 Sep 2014 05:00 AM PDT

The benefits of graduating from college are huge: better job prospects, higher wages and lower unemployment. The drawbacks to dropping out are just as massive: time spent outside the labor market and accrued student debt without better job opportunities to help with repayment.

Asian parents underwrite weak education spending: OECD

Posted: 09 Sep 2014 03:54 AM PDT

Weak public spending on education in East Asia is leaving families to pick up the tab, heaping huge burdens on parents who want to get children through college, a new global report has found. Improving academic results, particularly in maths, are being underwritten by pricey private tutoring despite the society-wide benefits of a better-educated population, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said. A common challenge for the region's governments is "to build better systems of public support to enable talented people from all sorts of backgrounds to take part in higher education", said Andreas Schleicher, director of education at the OECD. "East Asian countries spend relatively limited public budgets for education," he said during a video conferencing for Tokyo-based journalists.