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NACAC Issues First Report on Best Colleges Rankings (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on November 18, 2010 By rohit

The National Association for College Admission Counseling surveyed its members on attitudes toward U.S.

Student body president in CA is illegal immigrant (AP)

Published on November 18, 2010 By rohit

FRESNO, Calif. – The popular student body president at California State University, Fresno has publicly revealed a personal detail he long sought to keep secret: He is an illegal immigrant

Calif man accused of ramming bus pleads not guilty (AP)

Published on November 17, 2010 By

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A man accused of intentionally ramming his car head-on into a school bus in Southern California has pleaded not guilty.

Rejected High Schooler Speaks (The Advocate)

Published on November 17, 2010 By

Los Angeles – When Kelsey Hicks turned 18, she followed in the footsteps of her father before her and left the house to live on her own, despite still being a student at Del City High School, just outside of Oklahoma City. Hicks lives with her girlfriend and her girlfriend’s 2-year-old child, she told The Advocate Tuesday evening. She said that because she holds down two jobs and shares child rearing responsibilities, she decided to enroll in night school to complete her high school education, but immediately didn’t feel safe in her new surroundings.

Minn. Catholic school deletes student editorials (AP)

Published on November 17, 2010 By

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Study: 30 private college presidents made more than $1 million (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on November 16, 2010 By rohit

Parents struggling with high tuition bills might be fuming when they look at the list of the top-paid presidents of private colleges and universities. The annual analysis of tax records by the Chronicle of Higher Education found 30 top executives – out of the 448 institutions the Chronicle surveyed – received a total compensation of more than $1 million in 2008

Million-Dollar College Presidents (The Daily Beast)

Published on November 16, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK – Just as the cost of college has been rising, so have the paychecks for college presidents. A new study ranks the 30 academic heavyweights who pulled in more than $1 million a year. College is expensive, and the most expensive are private four-year institutions, with an average tuition of $35,000 per year .

Top-Selling Pulse App Goes Free as College Project Matures (Mashable)

Published on November 16, 2010 By

Alphonso Labs, makers of the popular Pulse mobile apps for social news consumption, is making available its iPhone, iPad and Android apps free of charge as of today. The decision marks a major pivot as the product transitions from a college dream to a formal business.

8 Big Changes to College Admissions in 2010 and 2011 (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on November 15, 2010 By rohit

Colleges, swamped by applications from increasingly anxious high schoolers, are changing their admissions rules to weed out applicants who try to game the system by getting easy A’s or plagiarizing their essays. Interviews with admissions officers at some of the nation’s most popular colleges reveal recent and important shifts in the weighting of traditional admission factors

Teachers take over schools in education reform (AP)

Published on November 13, 2010 By rohit

LOS ANGELES – Four years ago, Parkman Middle School in Los Angeles was spiraling downward with plummeting enrollment, abysmal test scores and notoriety for unruliness. Then teachers stepped out of the classroom and took charge of the school