Opinion: Washington might require students to apply for college

Some lawmakers in Washington are considering legislation which would require District of Columbia resident high school students to register for college, according to Fox News. Some lawmakers believe this would show if students would be able to navigate through the application process. This idea is ridiculous and would cost money and time which could be invested elsewhere. First, if a student is unable to navigate the application process, he or she should know enough to ask for help. Contacting the college in question or getting help from a teacher or councilor in school should be the first step. It is the responsibility of the school district and each Washington school to inform students that they have resources available if they have an issue.

If a student is unable to navigate through the application process for a college or university, are they really going to have a chance of making it in college?

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SUNY to have campus in South Korea

State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher and Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, today announced that the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in South Korea has approved the establishment of SUNY Korea, a partnership in Songdo, South Korea, that will be operated by SUNY Korea, LLC, Fox News reports…

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Data from NASA’s sky-mapping telescope released

NASA has released a trove of data from its sky-mapping mission, allowing scientists and anyone with access to the internet to peruse millions of galaxies, stars, asteroids and other hard-to-see objects, Fox News reports. Many of the targets in the celestial catalog released online this week have been previously observed, but there are significant new discoveries. The mission’s finds include more than 33,000 new asteroids floating between Mars and Jupiter and 20 comets…

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Amazon’s digital storage service slammed by critics

According to Fox News, Amazon’s plan to launch a cloud storage service for digital music and video collections might be pie in the sky, the New York Post reported Wednesday, citing critics. The plan, which was unveiled Tuesday and already drawing fire from some of its content partners, gave Amazon a head start on rivals Google and Apple. The two Silicon Valley, Calif., digital giants were not expected to detail their own digital media storage services until their separate developer conferences. Both Apple and Google were also still seeking music licenses… 

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