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University head pleads guilty to drunken driving (AP)
AP - The president of Davenport University has pleaded guilty to a first-time drunken-driving charge and refusing to take a breath test during his arrest.
read moreRI schools required to teach about dating violence (AP)
AP - Ann Burke saw signs of trouble with her daughter's boyfriend.
read moreDriver dead after car crashes into RI high school (AP)
AP - A car crashed through an entrance at a Rhode Island high school and burst into flames, killing the driver, police and witnesses said. No students were hurt.
read moreThe challenge of raising teens in AIDS-ravaged South Africa (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - On the way home from school, Thabang Thimbela stops off to visit his girlfriend, a few blocks from the tin shack where he and his foster parents and seven foster brothers and sisters live.
read moreAmish school shooting's anniversary to be 'normal' (AP)
AP - Empty pasture is all that's left on the site of the one-room Amish schoolhouse where a gunman left five girls dead and five others wounded two years ago and the anniversary of the massacre was expected to pass quietly Thursday.
read moreTexas schools get waiver for some days lost to Ike (AP)
AP - The Texas Education Agency is not requiring schools that closed after Hurricane Ike to make up all the time that students missed.
read moreLooking for a loan? Try P2P (AFP)
AFP - Saddled by student loans and credit card debt, Ryan Little was looking for relief. Like many, the 30-year-old insurance agent turned towards banks for a loan but he ended up finding a much better deal elsewhere, on the Internet, through a website called Lending Club (lendingclub.com).
read moreDetroit schools could lose millions in aid (AP)
AP - Detroit's troubled school system, already running a $400 million deficit, is facing a loss of at least $40 million in state aid and the possible appointment of an outsider to manage its finances.
read moreHouse OKs tax relief; sets up battle with Senate (AP)
AP - The year's most important tax package was in trouble Friday as the House passed a key part of it that the White House threatened to veto and the Senate said was a dead end.
read moreUniversity of Ill. virtual campus flounders (AP)
AP - An $8.9 million online campus launched by the University of Illinois nine months ago has had disappointing enrollment and fewer course offerings than expected, but the man who created it isn't giving up.
read moreMexico quietly helps emigrants to US learn Spanish (AP)
AP - For more than a decade, as the immigration debate has swelled on both sides of the border, the Mexican government has been quietly providing money, materials and even teachers to American schools, colleges and nonprofit organizations.
read moreBystanders pull students from burning bus in Fla. (AP)
AP - Passers-by are being credited with pulling students from a school bus that caught fire after it was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer in north Florida, killing one teenager, a school official said.
read moreFrench classroom film fuels education controversy (Reuters)
Reuters - An award-winning film shot in near-documentary style brings life in a difficult Paris high school to the screen and throws the spotlight on a French education system facing mounting pressure to reform.
read moreReport Challenges Use of Test Scores in College Admissions (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report - A report by a group of influential experts recommends that colleges re-examine their admissions and merit aid policies and consider admitting students without the use of scores from standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT.
read moreUMass officials quash credit-for-campaigning offer (AP)
AP - University of Massachusetts officials on Monday quashed efforts by an Amherst campus chaplain to offer two college credits to any student willing to campaign in New Hampshire this fall for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
read moreEx-Dallas school official sentenced to probation (AP)
AP - A former Dallas schools deputy superintendent accused in a corruption case involving technology contracts has been sentenced to one year of probation.
read moreSenior citizens pursuing education from home (AP)
AP - Kathy Leeds grows animated as she describes the courses she is taking this fall, including classes in current events, art and literature.
read moreCleveland police say teens plotted school attack (AP)
AP - Police in Cleveland have arrested two teenagers accused of plotting an attack at a high school on the first anniversary of a shooting last year.
read more2 shot after school football game in LA County (AP)
AP - Officials say two people have been shot and wounded on a high school campus in south Los Angeles County.
read moreWill Ivy League embrace R.O.T.C again? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Even if presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama succeed in influencing Ivy League schools to accept military recruiting programs, few believe it would yield more than a handful of new officers.
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Our National Guard: Paying The Price In IraqPresident George Bush has just over six months left in office, but his Iraq deployment policies continue to put an incredible strain on not only our active-duty Armed Forces, but, with our military stretched so thin, the administration has continued to deploy tens of thousands of our troops from the National Guard -- at levels our country has not experienced since World War II.
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The emerging college affordability crisis threatens to derail the American Dream for millions of young people who either cannot afford to attend college or who are saddled with crippling debt that prevents them from furthering their education, starting a family or buying a home. This emerging crisis has not been a prominent part of the national debate, despite its long-term threat to the future of our country.
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America’s Long-Term Military Capability May Be Threatened by Iraq StrategyAmerica's ability to defend itself and, if necessary, fight a conventional war may be eroding because of military strategies in Iraq, according to a West Point historian who served two combat tours in Iraq. According to Lt. Colonel Gian Gentile, a West Point history professor who served in Iraq as an executive officer of a combat brigade in Tikrit and as commander of a battalion northwest of Baghdad, the over-emphasis on counterinsurgency as a "solution to every problem" is contributing to America "losing the ability to wage any other kind of war." After eight years of decline in military readiness, the United States can no longer afford to ignore the informed patriotism of Col. Gentile and others who speak out on America's national security needs in the 21st Century.