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• This Tech Flop Is Hurting Our Student Loan Programs
• Maryland students accused of using Twitter to cheat on test
• Jury to resume deliberations in Atlanta test cheating trial
• Singapore's Lee seen as an inspiration for modern China
• Teachers take 1,000 apples to New York governor in protest

This Tech Flop Is Hurting Our Student Loan Programs Posted: 23 Mar 2015 11:00 AM PDT The Department of Education's massive computer system that stores data for more than 40 million Americans with student loans is so outdated and slow it can't track how many people are actually enrolled in the government's loan forgiveness and repayment programs. In January, the Department of Education said the Obama administration's income-based repayment plans would cost about $22 billion more than originally anticipated. Originally, people could qualify if they took out loans after October 2007 and continued borrowing through 2011 – but President Obama recently expanded the program to borrowers who took out loans even before that. Yet the department's data system has not been able to keep pace.

Maryland students accused of using Twitter to cheat on test Posted: 23 Mar 2015 09:07 AM PDT (Reuters) - Two Maryland high school students have been accused of using Twitter to cheat on Common Core state standardized tests, officials said on Monday. A security firm hired by the test company to search social media including Twitter, Instagram and Facebook found two instances of cheating by 10th-grade students, said Maryland State Department of Education spokesman William Reinhard. He did not identify the school or the students. The posts included materials from a statewide English test.

Jury to resume deliberations in Atlanta test cheating trial Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:30 AM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — Jurors will resume their deliberations in the trial of a dozen former Atlanta Public Schools educators accused of participating in a conspiracy to cheat on standardized tests.

Singapore's Lee seen as an inspiration for modern China Posted: 23 Mar 2015 12:37 AM PDT BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leaders admired modern Singapore's founder Lee Kuan Yew for his toughness, economic pragmatism and insistence on respect for authority. In many ways, Lee's model of "Asian values," combining authoritarianism and economic planning, became China's own blueprint for modernity.

Teachers take 1,000 apples to New York governor in protest Posted: 20 Mar 2015 01:34 PM PDT ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Teachers from an apple-growing region in New York have delivered 1,000 of them to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (KWOH'-moh) to protest education funding levels.

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