Arizona board approves steep tuition hikes
Getting a higher education here in Arizona just got a lot more expensive, reports KPHO CBS 5 News.
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College ROI: What we found
The PayScale methodology reveals which schools prepare students for well-paying careers and which schools make for poor investments, reports Bloomberg Businessweek.
Fueled by protests, angry Wisconsin voters show up to fight
Union supporters and Democrats unleashed their fury over Scott Walker, the Republican governor, and his efforts to diminish collective bargaining rights at the ballot box on Tuesday, reports…
Weathering education cuts
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett proposed cuts last month that would slash the state's higher-education budget to $567 million from $1.2 billion, affecting more than a dozen state-run and…
Can Facebook posts lead to college rejections?
'Tis the season. Colleges have sent out their admissions decisions, with prospective students eagerly sorting through acceptances and rejections, says U.S. News & World Report.
Google ‘to reorganize YouTube channels’
U.S. internet giant Google is preparing a major overhaul of video sharing website YouTube by creating "channels" to compete with broadcast and cable TV, the Wall Street Journal…
More pupils are learning online, fueling debate on quality
Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London with…
8 illegal immigrants detained at Georgia protest
Eight young illegal immigrants were arrested Tuesday for sitting in the middle of a busy street in front of the Georgia Capitol, protesting their lack of access to…
F-Bombs and ‘Jorts’: Craziest college rejection reasons
In the toughest college admission season on record, acceptance rates plummeted at many schools, including the Ivy League. Kristina Dell explores some of the arbitrary and whimsical reasons…
Planned wireless internet network threatens GPS
A new, ultra-fast wireless internet network is threatening to overpower GPS signals across the U.S. and interfere with everything from airplanes to police cars to consumer navigation devices,…