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USC will disband German department
Basic language courses will still be offered, but critics say the decision to dump majors and minors will hurt the university’s academic reputation.
Cortines to help lead L.A. Unified
By Howard Blume
Veteran educator Ramon Cortines has accepted a job as senior deputy [...]
USC to eliminate the study of German as a major and dismantle German department
Basic language courses will still be offered, but critics say the decision to dump majors and minors will hurt the university’s academic reputation.
USC is eliminating the study of German as a major over the next three years and dismantling the department except [...]
College students Trip to Nevada brothel - Tour Chicken Ranch, a legal bordello
Nicki Amouri hands her camera to a friend, throws her arm over another and smiles wide as she leans in for a shot with the monument her class came to visit.
It’s a typical field trip memento — except that Amouri is in a [...]
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Egypt: Drive to boost girls’ education
Thanks to a government and UN-sponsored drive to build over 1,000 ‘girl-friendly’ schools in seven Egyptian provinces, thousands of girls now have the opportunity for an education. About 1,063 schools have so far been built and 27,784 students enrolled. The ‘girl-friendly’ schools [...]
Community College Partnership to preserve places of black opportunity for African-American children
People gather decades ago at the former Rosenwald School in Acworth, Ga. The school for African-American children opened in 1924 and operated until the late 1940s before becoming a community center.
The little Acworth Rosenwald School, where Helen Hill sat long ago as a first-grader, [...]
Community college team members and all-stars: major high intelligence students
Your community college experience - Community colleges’ alumni include lawmakers, leading activists and award-winning artists. Yet not every community college student is successful. Many start slipping through the cracks almost as soon as they set foot on campus, says a report out last year. USA TODAY [...]
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Teachers need time to teach
07 April 2008 4:11pm | PPTA
Parents have an unrealistic idea of what schools and teachers are funded for and are able to do, PPTA president Robin Duff says. This comes after it was revealed police had been called in by parents to investigate whether [...]
US College Tuition Rising: Admissions season makes colleges sweat
Another year of record-breaking competition for slots at elite colleges is over. Now it’s time for the colleges to sweat.
Continuing a long-term trend, the acceptance rate at many of the country’s most selective colleges inched down this year to ever-more agonizing levels for parents and students. Harvard [...]
Tuitions Investigation: More colleges make consumer-oriented data available to public
More colleges make consumer information public - As tuitions climb and calls for accountability in higher education grow louder, more colleges are making more consumer-oriented data available to the public.
In the past few months, 75 more schools have agreed to share data with USA TODAY as [...]
School Students cautious upon serious of campus killings
Three murders in less than a week have sent three Southern college campuses into grief, and brought renewed attention to campus safety — a topic already on the minds of parents and students after recent mass killings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois.
While the latest available figures show [...]