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State cuts about $59 million from budget for IU - Indiana Daily Student

22 hours ago ago from Online College and Universities

State cuts about $59 million from budget for IU Indiana Daily Student It's part of $150 million in cuts through Indiana's seven publicly funded colleges and universities after tax revenues for the state were below projections and more Originally posted here: State cuts about $59 million from budget for IU - Indiana Daily Student

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Tutoring software that cares

21 hours ago ago from Joanne Jacobs

Tutoring software that senses the student's emotions is being tested by researchers, reports Education Week. It's not clear yet that sensitive software will produce better results, but one experiment by University of Massachusetts and Arizona State researchers boosted the pass rate on state geometry tests by 10 percent. The system picks up on students’ emotional states through hundreds of sensors embedded in the computer, students’ ...

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Broward Schools superintendent says fund schools not rail

20 hours ago ago from South Florida Education Blog

Broward Schools are bracing for another round of budget cuts because state education officials underestimated student enrollment throughout Florida, according to Superintendent James Notter. Because there are fewer students, “the state plans to reduce each district’s per student funding by $43 to $45. In Broward, this translates to another $8 million mid-year reduction,” Notter wrote to Florida’s Senate President Jeffrey Atwater, R-North Palm ...

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Article: “Governor Schwarzenegger Should Wash his Mouth Out with Soap”

16 hours ago ago from whose.university.OURuniversity.

The following article was written Bob Ostertag (UCD Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music) and was published on The Huffington Post : Governor Schwarzenegger should wash his mouth out with soap. Seriously. When I was a kid I was over at a friend's house when he said a bad word and his mother washed his mouth out with soap. It was impressive. I don't think my friend said that word again for a long time. Now California's ...

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Setting the Record Straight on Our Student Default Rate Story

19 hours ago ago from ProPublica: Articles and Investigations

by Sharona Coutts , ProPublica - In the Dec. 16, 2009, post Real Student Default Rates Much Higher Than Previously Known, we reported that the Department of Education was projecting that 47 percent of the federal money lent to students at for-profit education institutions in 2007 would never be repaid. We also said that the department had estimated that 40 percent of the money lent to students at for-profit institutions between 2003 and ...

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The year on campus: Change and hard times

19 hours ago ago from U.S. News

The year on campus: Change and hard times For higher education, 2009 was a time of lofty goals and harsh realities, of major policy shifts in Washington and financial struggle on campuses nationwide. In Washington, President Barack Obama called for the United States again to lead the world in college attainment by 2020. Congress poured billions of stimulus dollars into research and student financial aid and reshaped the federal student loan ...

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