2014年12月30日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Education News

In 2015, Illinois to confront daunting issues, divisions

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 04:04 PM PST

In 2015, Illinois to confront daunting issues, divisionsKeeping schools and social services funded. Making higher education more affordable. Addressing crowded prisons. Possibly redoing pension reform. As it enters 2015, Illinois faces a list of daunting issues ...

Kansas court orders more state spending on schools

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:46 PM PST

In this photo from Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, kindergarten students run around the multipurpose room at Frank Rushton Elementary School in Kansas City, Kan., as part of a physical education class, and behind the folded-up tables to the left, workers are preparing lunch. Kansas isn't spending enough money on its public schools to provide a suitable education for every child, a state district court panel ruled Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014 in an order that could mean the state has to boost its aid by hundreds of millions of dollars a year. (AP Photo/John Hanna)TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas isn't spending enough money on its public schools to provide a suitable education for every child, a state district court panel ruled Tuesday in an order that could mean the state has to boost its aid by hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Harvard to change sexual assault policies after federal investigation

Posted: 30 Dec 2014 01:19 PM PST

A seal hangs over a building at Harvard University in CambridgeBy Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Harvard University has agreed to make changes to its sexual assault policies and review some cases after an investigation found its law school had handled victim complaints poorly, the U.S. Department of Education said on Tuesday. The agreement with the Ivy League school is part of the Obama administration's push to curb sexual violence in U.S. colleges and coax schools to get tougher in handling cases. ...

China leader: More party control over colleges

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 09:14 PM PST

BEIJING (AP) — China's president has called for the Communist Party's leadership over the country's universities to be enhanced in a continuing tightening of ideological controls across a wide range of society.

Colleges’ New Aid Target: the Middle Class

Posted: 29 Dec 2014 03:15 PM PST

In this photo taken Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014, late light falls on Wheeler Hall, South Hall and the Campanile on the University of California campus in Berkeley, Calif. This famously liberal college town is known as the cradle of the Free Speech Movement, but speech isn't the only thing that's free here. Whether you're strolling the redwood-shaded University of California, Berkeley, campus, or slipping across the Oakland border for a dose of Golden State history, you can exercise your limbs and your intellect without giving your wallet a workout. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)As soaring college costs saddle more students with debt, colleges are increasingly earmarking aid for students who can fall through the cracks of existing programs: those who aren't from poor families, ...

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