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• How New York prison inmates defeated Harvard’s award-winning debate team
• MIT to offer first free online for-credit classes
• School board settles over principal hypnotizing students
• Settlement over Florida principal who hypnotized students
• Falling Student Loan Default Rates Still Challenge Borrowers
• Philadelphia college on lockdown after reports of gunman on campus

How New York prison inmates defeated Harvard’s award-winning debate team Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:00 PM PDT You'd think that Harvard's national debate champions would be able to win any verbal confrontation they'd be involved with, especially when it comes to debating. But you'd be wrong to assume that. Even the best lose sometimes, and Harvard's loss is all the more surprising when you learn that a team of inmates from the Eastern New York Correctional Facility managed to outperform the Harvard's best and brightest. DON'T MISS: Microsoft made the ultimate laptop: the Surface Book As The Telegraph reports, three men convicted of violent crimes including manslaughter faced three opponents from Harvard, arguing a motion that they apparently disagree with. The three inmates were given a difficult task – argue that public schools should be allowed to turn

MIT to offer first free online for-credit classes Posted: 07 Oct 2015 01:04 PM PDT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday unveiled a new program that will allow students for the first time to earn credit at the elite school for classes taken through its online MITx program. The program will allow candidates to take a semester of courses at its master's degree program in supply chain management for free online and then have an opportunity to apply to its full program in supply chain management. MIT and Harvard University were early participants in the edX learning initiative begun in 2011 that allows students to take free online classes, but officials at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based universities long held that the program was not comparable to enrolling in the highly selective school.

School board settles over principal hypnotizing students Posted: 07 Oct 2015 11:42 AM PDT NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — The families of three high school students who died after being hypnotized by a former principal will receive $200,000 each from the Sarasota County School District under a settlement agreement unanimously approved by the School Board on Tuesday.

Settlement over Florida principal who hypnotized students Posted: 07 Oct 2015 11:01 AM PDT The families of three North Port High School students who died after being hypnotized by former Principal George Kenney will receive $200,000 each from the Sarasota County School District under a settlement agreement unanimously approved by the School Board.

Falling Student Loan Default Rates Still Challenge Borrowers Posted: 07 Oct 2015 07:00 AM PDT Earlier this week, the Department of Education announced that the cohort default rate for federal student loans, which is one of the more visible metrics used to determine a school's eligibility to participate in the federal student aid programs, decreased for the second year in a row. The new rate of 11.8 percent is certainly an improvement over last year's 13.7 percent, and the Student Loan Ranger is happy to see the continuing downward trend. This blog spent some time last year explaining in detail why these cohort default rates may not be the most transparent way to determine the success rate of student loan borrowers and the schools they attended.

Philadelphia college on lockdown after reports of gunman on campus Posted: 06 Oct 2015 08:25 AM PDT The Community College of Philadelphia was on lockdown on Tuesday following reports of a person with a weapon on campus, police said. No shots were fired and there were no reports of any injuries, said Tanya Little, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia Police Department. The Community College of Philadelphia, the largest public institution of higher education in Philadelphia, has about 15,000 full-time students.

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