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Student news Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0200 If I were a recent college graduate, I would be outraged to be paying 6.8 percent in interest on my Stafford loan when market interest rates are closer to 2.5 percent! Where’s all...
Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:00:00 +0200 Students are borrowing dramatically more to pay for college, accelerating a trend that has wide-ranging implications for a generation of young people.
New numbers from the U.S. Education...
Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:00:00 +0200 SEATTLE — At least 2,000 students at Washington State University have reported symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus, university and local health officials said, in what appeared to be one...
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:00:00 +0200 ARLINGTON - Registration for the
world's largest rocket competition, the Team America Rocketry Challenge, is open to 750 student teams in grades 7-12 from any U.S. school, home school...
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:00:00 +0200 RICHMOND, Va. - A former U.S. Department of Education researcher has filed a lawsuit against 10 student loan companies to recover roughly $1 billion the companies received improperly.
The...
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:00:00 +0200 CHICAGO - The Illinois Student Assistance Commission is starting a Web site to help high school students statewide better plan for college.
It offers planning for financial aid with...
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:00:00 +0200 ANDERSON, Ind. - Several Anderson High School students could face punishment including possible suspensions or expulsions for a racial incident on the school grounds.
Interim Superintendent...
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:00:00 +0200 SAN FRANCISCO - State education officials say just over 90 percent of California's Class of 2009 passed the exit high school exam by the end of their senior year.
Data released Wednesday...
Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:00:00 +0200 Tools for university students are much improved and competition is much tougher – of course they do better
According to former head teacher Phil Willis MP, we are dumbing down our...
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 Current and former students of Kearney High School are paying tribute to a longtime bus driver. He is a man they said touched their lives.
66 year old Larry Neidhardt died over the...
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 Hanson - At a special ceremony held recently at the Massachusetts State House, Comcast was joined by state legislators to honor Whitman-Hanson Regional High School graduating senior...
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 Edward Jones contributed $18,000 to the Missouri Colleges Fund.
The grant underwrites $1,125 scholarships at each of the fund’s 16 member schools.
The scholarships will be awarded...
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama, who has been reluctant to emphasize race, weighed into racial politics Wednesday, saying the Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" in arresting...
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 Long Beach - It just got about $1,000 more expensive to attend California State University for one year - and students are furious.
With a tentative state budget agreement that gouges...
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 California State University tuition may rise 20 percent this fall to help make up a $584 million reduction in state funding, Chancellor Charles Reed said Thursday.
If approved by...
Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 Maryland colleges are starting to send out fall tuition bills, and signs indicate that more families will struggle to pay.
Applications for federal student aid are up. More families...
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 ATLANTA - A new government study shows black students in many Southern states are improving test scores in math and reading, but not enough to narrow an achievement gap with their white...
Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 When students in Abilene, Texas, return to class in six weeks they better not be caught using their cell phones.
Schools across the country have been cracking down on cell phone use...
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 Luis Duran of Phoenix, a student at Arizona State University, was one of four high school seniors nationwide chosen to receive a college scholarship of $100,000 from Ronald McDonald...
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 Madison - Students attending four-year schools in the University of Wisconsin System will see a 5.5% base tuition increase along with jumps in student fees and room and board rates,...
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:00:00 +0200 America's college students are borrowing more and taking on riskier forms of debt than ever before, according to an analysis released Thursday.
“Drowning in Debt: The Emerging Student...
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:00:00 +0200 BIDDEFORD — This fall, Biddeford High School freshmen and sophomore students, as well as some upper class students, will have new Apple laptop computers at their disposal.
After...
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:00:00 +0200 A disproportionate number of African-American students in some Michigan school districts are being suspended and expelled, according to a report released Wednesday.
The American Civil...
Sun, 17 May 2009 02:00:00 +0200 Roughly 100 people crammed into a small Manhattan restaurant, hoping to be hired to one of the two available job positions
With roughly a hundred people crammed into Marcello Assante's...
Sun, 17 May 2009 02:00:00 +0200 UCLA said today that the university would pay $220,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a student who was repeatedly stunned with a Taser gun by campus police after he refused...
Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:00:00 +0100 A 17-year-old track star from Highland Park, who was reported missing Friday, was found alive late Saturday, police said.
About 2,000 volunteers combed north suburban Deerfield and...
Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:00:00 +0100 Stanford senior Stephen Sebro hasn't been getting much sleep. His coursework is intense, graduation is looming and then there's the matter of launching a startup from his dorm room.
The...
Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0100 CHICAGO - Authorities say shots have been fired at a school bus on Chicago's west side, but no students were hit.
Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford says the Wednesday...
Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0100 SEATTLE — Washington state law does not bar teachers from having sex with 18-year-old students.
That's the decision of a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals, which...
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0100 WILLOWS -- Monday was a perfect day for sketching the peaceful, scenic acreage known as the Sacramento Wildlife Refuge, south of Willows.
For 10 Northern California high school students,...
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0100 Need help figuring out the next step for your small business?
The Montreat College MBA program may have some answers. A team of the school’s graduate students is offering consulting...
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0100 Atlanta educator Ron Clark was delighted last week to receive a letter from Oprah Winfrey, on whose show he has appeared twice. It wasn't until he noticed an extra piece of paper flutter...
Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0100 TEHRAN - Hundreds of Islamist students marched in the streets of the Iranian capital on Thursday vowing their readiness to travel to Gaza to fight Israel over its onslaught against the...
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 ALBANY —— A recycling program implemented by 10 eighth-graders has not only cut school waste in half, it has won them a national award and has made the city take notice.
The...
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 The holiday season is a time of giving, and a group of Saint Scholastica nursing students are preparing to depart the Northland to share the gift of time and knowledge with the people...
Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Gay students who attend this cozy third-floor Greenwich Village high school did not live through the launch of the national gay rights movement, which unfolded a few blocks away, and...
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 EVANSTON, Ill. - Some students who thought they'd received the best present of all this holiday season from Northwestern University instead got the computer equivalent of coal in their...
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 LYON, France - French authorities say police arrested 38 people in Lyon when a student protest against education reform turned violent.
The local government says five officers were...
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 BEAUMONT — A Lamar University doctoral student is in custody after investigators said he made terroristic threats about disrupting upcoming graduation ceremonies.
Thirty-four-year-old...
Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Madison County - Icy roads caused a crash between a car and a school bus in Madison County Wednesday morning.
The damage to the school bus underscores the potential danger to the...
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Taking a page from UCLA, students at Chapman University decided to have their own "underwear dash" -- this time around the historic traffic circle in Orange. But city officials say the...
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 AUSTIN, Texas - Carnegie Mellon University will host the second annual Game Education Summit, a conference focused on improving academic training for tomorrow's video game professionals,...
Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Yale disclosed Tuesday that its endowment had fallen at least 13.4 percent in the four months since June as the decline in asset values during the financial crisis takes its toll on...
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 When Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that he wanted to extend $60 billion of the $700 billion rescue package to non-bank credit card and auto loan firms, we called it "an...
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Not long ago, Dan Brown and his roommate headed from San Francisco to Las Vegas. They were aiming to win big so they could pay off their student loans.
"If you don't try, you can't...
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Betty Peck plans to wear a red dress with silver beading in December. That is, every single day in December.
"You have to dress according to the season," Peck said on a recent afternoon,...
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Private student lender stocks jumped following the federal government's decision last week to bolster the market, but their longer-term prospects are clouded by fretting among legislators...
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0100 LAS VEGAS — Over sandwiches and pizza, a group of high school students here debated the pros and cons of combating poverty in five desperate nations. They scrolled through Web sites,...
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100 ARNHEM - De 32-jarige Nijmegenaar J.K. die in 2005 zijn studiebegeleider een dubbele kaakbreuk schopte na een negatief bindend studieadvies, krijgt in een nieuwe strafzaak wegens het...
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100 AMSTERDAM - Studenten zijn over hun stageplekken tevredener dan een halfjaar geleden. Universitair-en hbo-studenten geven nu gemiddeld een 7,3. Een half jaar geleden kwamen ze niet...
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Higher college costs and steep losses in college savings plans are forcing students and their parents to borrow more to earn bachelor’s degrees.
Last year’s seniors, facing increasing...
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100 What do college students want from Santa this year? Pirated software, according to the Business Software Alliance.
Of the 400 students interviewed by BSA earlier this month, 60 percent...
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Four professors being recognized today in the 2008 U.S. Professors of the Year awards share a desire to enable young minds to "grow by doing," instead of just listening to lectures in...
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100 BALTIMORE - A sensor network has been installed at Johns Hopkins University that will allow police to pinpoint the source of gunfire.
In a memo to students, the university says 93...
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100 A guide to help colleges and universities prevent the tragedy of campus violence has been released by a team of leading experts.
"The Handbook for Campus Threat Assessment and Management...
Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100 STOCKTON SPRINGS, Maine - Police say a gunman held 11 fifth-graders hostage at an elementary school in Maine but was tackled by a state trooper and taken into custody without any harm...
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Salt Lake City police are looking for a man who stole a wheelchair from Westminster College belonging to an 18-year-old student.
2News reports the motorized chair belongs to Jessica...
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100 KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian student in Australia, Norzarifah Kamarauzaman, 21, is believed missing after family members failed to contact her for three weeks now.
The final year geology...
Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100 NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Student housing, previously a bright spot in the battered real estate investment trust sector, may be falling off the dean's list as the economy weakens.
The...
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Chase, a commercial banking brand of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) awarded $40,000 to Western Kentucky University’s Green Toppers student group on Tuesday for winning Chase’s...
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Thought Leaders from the IEEE Discuss Current Issues in Education, from Engaging Our Nation's Youth to Encouraging, Attracting and Retaining Engineering Talent
-- The trend is alarming,...
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100 Conway, Arkansas - Police officers patrolled the University of Central Arkansas campus on Monday and classes were cancelled after a shooting in an alleyway left two students dead and...
Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Michigan State University students will see slight bumps in their summer tuition to help make up for less-than-expected funding from Lansing this year.
The 1.2% increase will mean...
Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 We heard a common theme. Dropouts are a national crisis, the problem is not something schools are responsible for entirely, nor is it something they can fix entirely.
And, as I learned...
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Evelyn_EspinozaA landscaping and lawn-care business; a candy factory; a yoga class; a smoothie store in the school cafeteria; and an online costume retailer for kids and adults.
Those...
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 TAIPEI - A man died just as he was about to win a university binge eating contest in Taiwan, scoffing down two buns filled with rice and cheese as well as some of his teammate's food,...
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 I got an interesting email from a mom seeking some help. She mentions a program many of you have asked before: What do our schools do to help average students?
Here is her note:
“My...
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 LUBBOCK, Texas - Here's the kicker for No. 8 Texas Tech. A student who made a 30-yard field goal to win a contest during a game last month could handle extra points Saturday against...
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Students aren’t usually allowed to use their cellphones at school. But under the “Text a Cop” plan, Marietta High School students won’t face disciplinary action for their efforts...
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Two high school students bitten by a venomous snake in science class are recovering at an East Texas hospital.
School officials in Big Sandy said Tuesday the students were bitten...
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 A small fire occurred Monday night in Mary Markley Hall on the University of Michigan’s campus.
The fire, which occurred at 10:40 p.m., was contained in one room and was quickly...
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 NEW YORK - A new report says that more than 90,000 elementary students in New York City missed at least one month of classes during the last school year.
The report released Tuesday...
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 School officials have begun handing out suspensions to Pinckney students directly involved with receiving or transmitting a revealing photo a 14-year-old girl took of herself with a...
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Dairy products that were recalled in southern China to be tested for the deadly chemical melamine were instead dumped at universities and sold to students at a discount, state media...
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 State officials say more than 400 students attending Iowa colleges received disaster relief grants to help pay college expenses.
Keith Greiner of the Iowa College Student Aid Commission...
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Deciding on grad school? In addition to taking on six-figure loans, late nights and ramen dinners, would-be students now must add in another challenge: family health insurance.
Increasingly,...
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 CHETEK, Wis. - Nine students have been taken to area hospitals following a school bus accident in western Wisconsin.
About 17 students, from elementary to high school, were on a bus...
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Garfield Elementary pupils note broken sidewalks, speeding motorists and other hazards in hopes that Santa Ana will correct them.
On the first day of class, Chris Marx asks his fifth-grade...
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 CEGEPS and tech colleges have employers calling to court graduates but job offers go unfilled because there are not enough students
Every week, John Popovitch receives between 25...
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 But students can be distracted from classwork, too, as more than half in a survey said they checked Facebook or MySpace and sent or received e-mail while in class.
Use Wi-Fi, get...
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 A team of British and Australian researchers have found that medical students have little in the way of street smarts when it comes to recreational drugs.
In a paper published in...
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 INTERNATIONAL students do just as well as Australian students at Australia's elite universities, countering claims that international students are "soft-marked" and are dragging down...
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 LOS ANGELES - A highly contagious gastrointestinal virus has sickened another 70 students at the University of Southern California (USC), bringing the total number of sick students to...
Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Sen. Charles Schumer says particular attention needs to be paid during the current financial upheaval to make sure the student loan market is protected from the credit crunch.
The...
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Charity Triplett of Yerington joined the largest graduating class in Whitworth history as the university celebrated its 118th Commencement in mid-May in Spokane, WA., and when she was...
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 WASHINGTON - A new NASA contest challenges college-level students to design tools or instrument packages that could be used on the next generation of human-driven moon rovers. Student...
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 A Carleton University student has quit school after being hit with a fine and other sanctions for hacking into a university computer to steal identification and financial data from 32...
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Although it won’t affect UF students, some college students in Florida who worry about securing federal student loans may be able to rest easy for at least another year.
A bill...
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Two more Long Island students have viral meningitis, including a second case at a Greenlawn high school, the school districts said.
A Division Avenue High School student has viral...
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 SANTA CLARA, Calif., - Tegrity, provider of the leading class capture web service for higher education, announced that it will unveil the results of an important study highlighting the...
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Students from this spring's Chicago Public Schools graduating class collected nearly $157 million in college scholarships, nearly twice the $82 million earned the year before and a district...
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 A group of high school students today proposed dramatic changes to the state’s tough new graduation requirements that would create separate routes to a high school diploma based on...
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 An Indian American student has been identified as one of 25 people who died when a Metrolink commuter train had a head-on collision with a freight train near Los Angeles on Friday.
Atul...
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 It's a tough lesson for millions of students just now arriving on campus: even if you have a high school diploma, you may not be ready for college.
In fact, a new study calculates,...
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 In order for the Dallas Harvest Festival to be a success, organizers rely on community volunteers to assist at the event.
Students from Misericordia University make up the largest...
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0200 BUFFALO, N.Y. - A fight a few blocks south of the University at Buffalo South Campus early Saturday sent a student to Erie County Medical Center in serious condition after he was knocked...
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0200 A 19-year-old Santa Clara University student died Thursday night after falling from a third-floor railing at the school library, according to Santa Clara police.
Police spokesman...
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0200 Five high school students were taken to a hospital Friday morning after being attacked by a dog at their southeast Atlanta bus stop, police and school officials said.
None of the...
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0200 C-Berkeley welcomed students this week with a three-day party in the gymnasium and reassured their anxious parents with a new high-tech warning system.
For several days, new and returning...
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0200 DES MOINES, Iowa - Two Drake athletes have been honored as co-recipients of the school's outstanding student-athlete award.
Adam Emmenecker and Jill Martin on Monday were given the...
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