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Education: Government Schools

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by Barbara Ehrenreich (HuffPo)

Welcome to Fleece U., where our mission is to take feckless teenagers such as yourselves and turn them into full-fledged citizens of our economy, meaning, of course, debtors. Your real purpose here is to ... assume the burden of debt.

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Reuters

A proposal to test a radical change in the U.S. student loan industry by putting it on the [free market?] auction block is set to pit Democratic lawmakers against the Bush administration and the banking industry. The troubled $85-billion business wou

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AP

The Food and Drug Administration approved a widely used adult psychiatric drug for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. Risperdal is the No. 3 anti-psychotic drug with $2.3 billion in sales in 2005

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Le Quebecois Libre

The Conference Board of Canada recently released a report on innovation (or lack thereof) which claims that "Canadians are complacent and generally unwilling to take risks." It criticizes scientists for not publishing enough papers and inv

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qctimes.com

But Muscatine Police Chief Gary Coderoni said the child’s age is irrelevant. “If a person is committing a crime, it doesn’t matter,” he said. “The officer is going to use that amount of force that’s necessary. Police Chief Coderoni is obviousl

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BBC

Google is expanding its empire into universities with entire campus e-mail networks switching over to using Google's e-mail service. This will give the internet company a "relationship for life" with students - who can carry on using t

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Slate(Emily Bazelon)

When Maria Montessori docked in New York on her first trip to America in 1913, crowds greeted her ship and her arrival made the front pages. Montessori, Italy's first woman doctor, was toasted as a revolutionary educator.

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Portland Press Herald(ME)

Mary Clemons had no intention of going to college after completing high school last year, and she was not pleased when her high school told her she had to complete a college application and submit it. (Maybe if all buy lottery tickets, we'd be r

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Chicago Tribune

Told to express emotion for a creative-writing class, high school senior Allen Lee penned an essay so disturbing to his 'teacher', school administrators and police that he was charged with disorderly conduct, officials said Wednesday.

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Boston (AP)

During the demonstration, Winset pretended to shoot some students. Then one student pretended to shoot Winset to illustrate his point that the gunman might have been stopped had another student or faculty member been armed.

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Washington Post

(When does this all end) The Justice Dept is conducting a probe of a $6 billion reading initiative at the center of President Bush's No Child Left Behind Law, another blow to the a program besieged by allegations of financial conflicts of intere

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AP

A University of Colorado student was arrested after making comments classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech. Another student was detained when he was spotted wearing an ammunition be

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USA Today

The Virginia Tech student who went on a shooting rampage has prompted some calls for background checks on college applicants. "It's an idea whose time has come," says Catherine Bath, executive director of Security On Campus, a national

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Viking Spirit's blog

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has a simple solution to future shooting massacres such as the one that ripped apart Virginia Tech university Monday: more guns.

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AP

Cozy arrangements between colleges and the companies that lend their students billions of dollars are far more widespread than anticipated, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said, just as 2 more college financial aid officers were suspended amid

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