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Union tries personal tactics on some UC regents 14.3.2010 SFGate: Top Stories
Union tries personal tactics on some UC regents
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Taking a new look at domestic violence 14.3.2010 Salt Lake Tribune
She would yell, swear and call him names every time they fought. He would respond calmly, sometimes with sarcasm, which only made her more angry. Periodically during their 20 years together, she reacted by hitting him.
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Lure of for-profit schools can lead to unwieldy debt 14.3.2010 Boston Globe: Nation
Lure of for-profit schools can lead to unwieldy debt
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Claim that Australia top choice of Indian students given thumbs down (Cached) 14.3.2010 New Kerala: World News
Morris School News 14.3.2010 The Daily Record: Local
• Kevin Keown, son of Steve and Mary Keowin of Morris Plains, was placed on the dean's list for the fall 2009 semester at State University of New York College at Cortland, where he is majoring in physical education.
On the market: College scholarships available to students 14.3.2010 Steamboat Pilot
The Steamboat Springs Board of Realtors again is awarding scholarships to Routt County high school students wishing to continue their education.
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DPS Higher Education Expo helps high-schoolers plan ahead 14.3.2010 Denver Post: Local
DPS Higher Education Expo helps high-schoolers plan ahead
Before filing for bankruptcy, try living within your means 14.3.2010 LA Times: Business
Before filing for bankruptcy, try living within your means
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Montgomery College cricket team to defend national title 14.3.2010 Washington Post: Front Page
Last March, the Montgomery College men's team handily beat four other schools to win the first American College Cricket championship.
All this for some soap! 14.3.2010 Twincities.com: Local
Andrew Behnke drops a glass marble onto an incline plane, setting off a chain reaction. Marbles start rolling, falling and shooting in the air, obelisks rise, the eyes of ancient Egyptian "gods" glow, a boat begins to sail, and King Tut is buried.
In hard times, lured into trade school and debt 14.3.2010 San Jose Mercury News: News
One fast-growing American industry has become a conspicuous beneficiary of the recession: for-profit colleges and trade schools.
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Toughest college test: No cell phone, no Facebook 14.3.2010 Star Tribune: Local
Professors are asking students to turn off laptops, iPods and the like for 24 hours or more. For some, it's impossible; for others, a revelation.
Editorial: National School Standards, at Last 14.3.2010 International Herald Tribune: Editorials
States must adopt rigorous standards that lay out clear, ambitious goals for what children across the country should learn year to year.
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NW farmers, researchers battle Asian fruit fly 14.3.2010 AP Washington
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Farmers and researchers in the Northwest are racing to control an Asian fruit fly that first appeared last summer and ruined some late-season peach and berry crops....
Century-old Scout troop celebrates longevity 14.3.2010 Salt Lake Tribune
Logan » If there is an older Scout troop west of the Mississippi River, Troop 1 in Logan hasn't heard of it. In fact, Troop 1 was organized 100 years ago this month, just weeks after Scouting arrived on American shores.
Girls have appetites for math and science 14.3.2010 Salt Lake Tribune
The slimy tofu-like organ in the hands of a University of Utah researcher wasn't the first human brain 15-year-old Chelsea O'Crowley had ever seen. It was just the first brain she had ever actually touched.
Obama's overhaul of education law to focus on getting students ready for college 14.3.2010 Star Tribune: Nation
For-Profit Schools Cashing In on Recession and Federal Aid 14.3.2010 NYT: Home Page
Long accused of overpromising and underdelivering, commercial trade schools are under fire because they are attracting more students and more Pell grants.

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Legislative thumbs 13.3.2010 Salt Lake Tribune
This year's general session of the Utah Legislature could have been depressing. Shrunken state income due to the economic recession made difficult budget cuts a necessity.
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PETER BERKOWITZ: Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen. What does this scandal … 13.3.2010 Instapundit
PETER BERKOWITZ: Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen. What does this scandal say generally about the intellectual habits and norms at our universities? This is a legitimate question, because our universities, which above all should be cultivating intellectual virtue, are in their day-to-day operations fostering the opposite. Fashionable ideas, the convenience of professors, and [...]
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