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• Panel votes against accreditor of for-profit colleges
• Kansas GOP lawmakers advance plan to avert school closings
• Abigail Fisher Lost, but Challenges to Affirmative Action Aren’t Over
• Mexican government meets with radical teachers' union
• Swiss college students set a new world record for the fastest electric car
• Amid campaign worries, Trump to check on courses in Scotland
• Affirmative Action Survives at the Supreme Court
• 3 teachers resign over insulting chat messages about kids
• What Employers Think About Your Online IT Degree

Panel votes against accreditor of for-profit colleges Posted: 23 Jun 2016 05:20 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — An advisory panel to the Education Department voted Thursday to recommend the government sever ties with a group that accredits many of the nation's for-profit colleges, including schools once owned by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges Inc. — a critical vote that could lead schools to close their doors and threaten financial aid to hundreds of thousands of students.

Kansas GOP lawmakers advance plan to avert school closings Posted: 23 Jun 2016 05:00 PM PDT TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republicans advanced an education funding plan Thursday in the Kansas Legislature as the best way to satisfy a court mandate, pushing past doubts that it would avert a threatened shutdown of the state's public schools.

Abigail Fisher Lost, but Challenges to Affirmative Action Aren’t Over Posted: 23 Jun 2016 04:53 PM PDT It was a case intended to be a wrecking ball for affirmative action in college admissions. The opinion, authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, supports diversity as "a critically important mission" in higher education while "closing off many of the doors that [affirmative action foes] had hoped would remain open," Ifill said.

Mexican government meets with radical teachers' union Posted: 23 Jun 2016 09:39 AM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Leaders of a radical teachers union met with Mexican government representatives late Wednesday to try to defuse tensions after eight people died in clashes in the southern state of Oaxaca, but managed only to schedule another meeting for Monday.

Swiss college students set a new world record for the fastest electric car Posted: 23 Jun 2016 08:49 AM PDT Students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University have developed the world's fastest electric car, much faster than any production electric or gas engine car. The Grimsel ran a time of 1.5 seconds from 0-to-62 in just 100 feet.

Amid campaign worries, Trump to check on courses in Scotland Posted: 23 Jun 2016 08:42 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Facing questions about meager fundraising, slipping poll numbers and campaign instability, Donald Trump is tending to business — in Scotland.

Affirmative Action Survives at the Supreme Court Posted: 23 Jun 2016 07:35 AM PDT Updated at 2:16 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Thursday the University of Texas at Austin's plan to increase student diversity, defeating a conservative challenge that sought to imperil affirmative-action programs in higher education.

3 teachers resign over insulting chat messages about kids Posted: 23 Jun 2016 06:49 AM PDT CUMBERLAND, R.I. (AP) — Three teachers at a Rhode Island charter school have resigned for exchanging disparaging and profanity-laden chat messages about students.

What Employers Think About Your Online IT Degree Posted: 23 Jun 2016 06:30 AM PDT When Reza B'Far completed his online master's degree in computer science through University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, he watched the same lectures as the on-campus students. "The degree that you got was the equivalent of a normal college degree," says the 44-year-old, who now works as vice president of development for the computer technology corporation Oracle. In recent years, employers have become more accepting of online bachelor's and master's degrees in information technology and related fields, like computer science, recruiters say -- though not all are totally comfortable with them.

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