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Graison Hensley-Chapman / June 18, 2010
Can A Damning New Report Curb The Growth Of The College Sports Industry?
Previous reports by the Knight Foundation have forced the NCAA to adopt tougher standards
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Graison Hensley-Chapman / June 1, 2010
Want A Summer Job? Too Bad.
The job scene for teenagers is worse than even last year.
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Graison Hensley-Chapman / May 25, 2010
Is Social Networking Making Us Lonely?
A new study shows that young people are lonelier than the elderly. Social networking's replacement of in-person interaction may be at fault.
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Graison Hensley-Chapman / May 24, 2010
A Five Percent Decrease In Pain
This year's college grads face a better picture than last year's, but that's not saying much.
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Graison Hensley-Chapman / May 13, 2010
Inside The Grade Inflation Balloon
Have private school students earned their higher grades? Does class size make a difference? Do today's students work harder? A grade-inflation researcher has answers.
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Is The SAT Worded In A Way That Disadvantages Black Students?
According to HuffPost College, an academic who charged over two decades ago that the SAT favors white students by the way it words questions is finally getting the attention his claim merits.
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Discussion: ‘Should Parents Be Jailed When Kids Drink?’
The New York Times hosts a virtual debate on whether parents should be held criminally responsible for their childrens' drinking (and that of their friends); and whether current 'social host' laws should be reconsidered.
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Continuing The Legacy: ‘No Child’ Overwhelmingly Fails American Indian Students
According to the Associated Press 'Indian students face fewer chances for academic success under education standards that don't embrace their traditional cultures, lawmakers and witnesses said Thursday during a Senate hearing considering revisions to the No Child Left Behind Act.'
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Bridging The Gap They Didn’t Create – One D.C. High School Sends 100% Of Graduates To College
CBS News reports on the Washington, D.C. high school that, by demanding exceptionally high performance from its students, aims to bridge the gap in the United States' educational system between rich areas and poorer ones, like the neighborhood it serves.
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Shameful: 20 Percent Of College Students Have Driven Drunk
According to US News & World Report 'Drinking and driving among college students is still a major public health problem, new research reveals, with one in five admitting to driving while drunk and 40 percent acknowledging they have ridden with a drunk driver.'
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Today’s Youth Less Empathetic Than Any Generation In Over 30 Years
According to Newswise 'Today's college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and '90s, a University of Michigan study shows.'
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Facing Foreign Competition And Higher Costs For Domestic Students, American Colleges Are Losing Their Sheen
Is America's preeminence in higher education on the wane?
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Robert Reich: Obama Needs To ‘Put BP Under Temporary Receivership’
Currently the firm is bound legally only to its shareholders, he argues--the wrong party for them to be bound to if you want the Gulf oil spill to be taken care of without cost-cutting and other shady measures.
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If A Graduate Can’t Find Work To Pay Off Student Loans, Whose Fault Is It?
Many homeowners with mortgages more expensive than their houses are walking away from their investments. But what can a graduate do if they can't find work enough to pay off their student loans? And whose fault is it if they can't?
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Did Brown Ban An Alleged Rapist Without Investigation Because His Accuser Was A Legacy Student?
A student banned from the school nearly four years ago has filed a federal suit alleging the administration 'failed to adequately investigate the allegations' because his accuser, a third-generation legacy student, had connections with administrators because her parents were wealthy donors.
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