President Barack Obama is praising Texas A&M University’s NCAA champion women’s basketball team for being role models to young girls–including his two daughters, Sasha and Malia, the Associated Press reports. The president congratulated the team Thursday at the White House. Coach Gary Blair presented Obama with team jerseys for himself and the first lady…
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Report outlines changes to community colleges
A task force created to look at Nevada’s community colleges is recommending sweeping changes to the way the colleges are run, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The task force’s report, to be presented to the higher education system’s governing Board of Regents this week, recommends revamping or tweaking online education, K-12 partnerships, remedial education, tuition pricing, the funding formula and the colleges’ governing system, among other changes. In all, the report recommends 10 changes…
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