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		<title>College Presidents&#8217; Pay Climbs as State Funding Shrinks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 22:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State and local funding for public universities fell by 7% last year, but that didn’t prevent some college presidents from getting raises. In 2011–12, the median total compensation for chief executives at public colleges was $441,392 — a 4.7% increase from the 2010–11 school year, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual report on executive pay. (MORE: Former Penn State President Says He Was Abuse Victim in Letter) At the top of the list is Graham Spanier, the former president of Pennsylvania State University, who was forced to resign in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal. In 2011–12, Spanier brought in a total of $2.9 million, which included $1.2 million in severance pay. He was followed by Jay Gogue of Auburn University, who received $2,542,865, and Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University, whose $1,899,420 compensation included a base salary of $830,439 — the most of any president. In 2007–08, Gee famously became the first college president who earned more than $1 million per year. Nothing to scoff at, though many of the presidents on the list don’t make as much as the football and men’s basketball coaches at their schools. The full report, available here, includes salary information on 212 presidents. Here are the top 10 earners, in terms of total compensation: 1. Graham B. Spanier*, Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania), $2,906,271 2. Jay Gogue, Auburn University (Alabama), $2,542,865 3. E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State University main campus (Ohio), $1,899,420 4. Alan G. Merten*, George Mason University (Virginia), $1,869,369 5. Jo Ann M. Gora, Ball State University (Indiana), $984,647 6. Mary Sue Coleman, University of Michigan system (Michigan), $918,783 7. Charles W. Steger, Virginia Tech (Virginia), $857,749 8. Mark G. Yudof, University of California system (California), $847,149 9. Bernard J. Machen, University of Florida (Florida), $834,562 10. Francisco G. Cigarroa, University of Texas system (Texas), $815,833 *No longer president MORE: We’re Doing a Lousy Job of Getting Poor Kids Into College<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=207759&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana High Schoolers Push to Ban Gay Classmates from &#8216;Traditional&#8217; Prom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Correction Appended Feb. 12, 2013. A group of students and parents at Sullivan High School in Sullivan, Ind., have banded together to push for a &#8220;traditional&#8221; prom that would prohibit their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered classmates from attending. (PHOTOS: Last Dance: American Proms by Gillian Laub) The group met on Sunday at the town&#8217;s First Christian Church to discuss the possibility of holding a separate, segregated dance after the principal of Sullivan High, David Springer, told a local NBC affiliate that &#8220;Anybody can go to the prom&#8221; when asked to clarify whether same-sex couples would be allowed to walk in the event&#8217;s grand march, set to be held April 27. &#8220;We believe what the Bible says, that it says it&#8217;s wrong,&#8221; Sullivan High School student Bonnie McCammon said to WTWO-TV. &#8221;We love the homosexuals, but we do not condone what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221; According to WTWO, one member of the group is a local special-education teacher, Diana Medley, who told the NBC affiliate, &#8220;I believe [homosexuality] is a choice. I don&#8217;t believe they were born that way. I think that life circumstances made them that way.&#8221; She says she works with students who come out to her and cares about them, even though she doesn&#8217;t &#8220;agree with them.&#8221; The students and parents formed a Facebook page, called 2013 Sullivan Traditional Prom, to support their cause. The page has since been taken down, but columnist-activist Dan Savage has screen grabs of a few of the comments. Some of the comments defended the group&#8217;s mission (&#8220;We would like to stress to everyone that this is not a hate group. We do not hate anyone, we are not judging anyone. We are choosing to stand on the word of God&#8221;), while others urged supporters to stand together (&#8220;With all the media and stuff going on now, let us keep in mind that we are to be loving to all and to be in prayer so satan doesn&#8217;t get in to divide&#8221;). (MORE: 10 Questions for Dan Savage) Another Facebook page, Support the Sullivan High School Prom for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=194680&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LSU Evacuates Due to Bomb Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge became the latest university forced to evacuate due to a bomb threat on Monday—three days after three other colleges temporarily shut down their campuses for the same reason. At about 11:30 a.m. local time LSU posted a message on their website saying, &#8220;A bomb threat has been reported on the LSU Campus. Please evacuate as calmy and quickly as possible.&#8221; No further update has been posted since, but a local news site reported that traffic near campus immediately resembled the congestion that would be seen following a Saturday football game. The threat follows three others reported on Friday at the University of Texas at Austin, North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D. and Hiram College, a private liberal arts college located in Hiram, Ohio. All three schools evacuated their campuses after they received seemingly unrelated bomb threats from unknown callers. As I wrote in my story on bomb threats in college campuses over the weekend, even though the LSU threat is likely a hoax, as was the case in Texas, N.D. and Ohio, in a post-Virginia Tech world, the school had almost no choice but to respond as if the threat was credible. In 2008, after the shooting at Virginia Tech the year prior, Congress beefed up the Clery Act, which requires universities to disclose the amount of crime on campus. New stipulations call for colleges to have an official emergency plan, including a procedure to immediately notify the campus community in the event of an emergency. “Al-Qaeda does not typically call you in advance, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to take threats very seriously,” said S. Daniel Carter, a campus safety expert who runs the 32 National Campus Safety Index. Active shooter drills and test evacuations are now a typical part of college life. And while that is certainly not to be discouraged, in being prepared to respond quickly to any threat, colleges run the risk of their students observing warnings with less urgency. In part, that is because the vast majority of bomb threats turn out to be fake.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=170635&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Universities in Texas, North Dakota Reopen after Bomb Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The campuses University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D. were evacuated earlier this morning after the schools received apparently unrelated bomb threats from unnamed callers. UT&#8217;s campus re-opened today at noon central time, although classes are cancelled for the remainder of the day; NDSU reopened at 1 p.m. local time and classes will resume at 2 p.m. A message posted at 9:53 a.m. on UT&#8217;s website instructed students and anyone else on campus to leave immediately and &#8220;get as far away as possible.&#8221; Text message alerts were also sent to the 69,000 people the university says have signed up for them. (The university has about 51,000 students enrolled, and 24,000 staff and faculty, according to the New York Times.) The evacuation came after a man claiming to be from al-Qaeda called the main university phone number and said he had placed bombs all over campus that would go off in 90 minutes. At a press conference held this afternoon, after the campus had been secured by local, state and federal authorities, UT President Bill Powers said the evacuation was ordered because they could not be assured that the threat wasn&#8217;t credible. &#8220;We got to the point where we thought that the prudent thing to do was to clear our buildings,&#8221; he said. In Fargo, university officials urged all employees and students to leave campus by 10:15 a.m. after they received a bomb threat. Traffic jams were reported as the university evacuated some 20,000 people from the main and downtown campuses. According to a local news site, two other bomb threats were reported in the region, one of which closed access to the Hector International Airport in Fargo. Another was reported at the Grand Forks airport. Meanwhile Valparaiso University, a private Lutheran school in Valparaiso, Ind., increased security and warned students after a threat in the form of a graffiti message was found on campus. The schools says the message alluded to &#8220;dangerous and criminal activity,&#8221; but that classes are continuing as planned. The university tweeted that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=170356&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the Best College of 2013 Is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Correction Appended: Sept. 12, 2012 Well, if you were looking for a surprise in this year&#8217;s U.S. News &#38; World Report&#8216;s Best Colleges list, you&#8217;re not going to find it at the top: Harvard University has once again claimed the No. 1 spot — or at least half of it. Harvard tied for No. 1 with Princeton on the 2013 list, which closely resembles last year&#8217;s edition, and was followed by Yale, Columbia and the University of Chicago. The remaining Ivy League schools, as was the case last year, all rank in the top 20. The only slight shake up in the Top 10 was that the California Institute of Technology fell from being tied last year in the No. 5 spot with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to being tied with Dartmouth College for the No. 10 spot this year. Harvard&#8217;s top marks come despite a cheating scandal that broke on Aug. 30 when the University announced 125 of its undergraduate students had been accused of illicitly collaborating on a take-home final exam.  Here is the Top 10 (or 11, including ties): 1. Harvard University 1. Princeton University 3. Yale University 4. Columbia University 4. University of Chicago 6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6. Stanford University 8. Duke University 8. University of Pennsylvania 10. California Institute of Technology 10. Dartmouth College A public school doesn&#8217;t appear on the list until No. 24—a position claimed by the University of California, Berkeley. UCLA follows close behind, as does the University of Virginia, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. U.S. News also releases a list of the schools it considers provide the best value, which the Ivy League schools also rank highly on as well as other prestigious universities like Stanford and Duke, thanks to their large endowments. The organization also ranks schools based on the amount of debt students have at graduation and include an alphabetized list of schools it considers to be &#8220;A+ schools for B students,&#8221; which includes many state-funded universities such as Auburn, Purdue, Indiana, Michigan State and the University of Missouri, as well as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=169413&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Students Who Skip School Don&#8217;t Get the Consequences, Study Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 18:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[School is boring. It starts too early. It&#8217;s more fun to hang with friends. Those are the top three reasons cited by students as reasons why they skip school, according to a new report based on interviews with 500 teenagers at local malls in 25 cities nationwide. The report, from Get Schooled, a non-profit devoted to improving graduation rates, is one of several recent efforts to turn focus on absenteeism, which has been found to be a contributing factor to why kids fail to finish high school. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University recently found that up to 15% of students are chronically absent—meaning they miss at least one school day for every 10 days they attend—which has a damaging effect on their long-term academic progress. According to Get Schooled, seven million kids—more than the entire student population of California—miss a month or more of school each year, in part because 46% of teens who skip school do so more than once a week. Missing school has serious consequences. The report found students who miss more than 10 days of school are 20% less likely to graduate high school and have a 25% less chance of ever enrolling in college. But students have little awareness of these potential effects. While 48% of students surveyed said it was very likely they would fall behind in class if they skipped school a few times a week, only 18% thought they would be at a deficit if they skipped once a week. Read the full report here. More education news from the week: School Year Off to a Somber Start at Baltimore High School A shooting took place in the cafeteria of Perry Hall High School in Baltimore on Monday, the first day of the 2012-2013 school year. According to the Baltimore Sun, several hundred students were in the cafeteria when the 15-year-old suspect shot a 17-year-old student. The injured student was taken to the hospital where, as of Thursday morning, he remained in critical condition. He is expected to survive. The Sun reports the school remains under heavy security<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=167475&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Accuses 125 Students of Cheating on Final Exam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The students are accused of colluding on a take-home test in what some say is the largest Ivy League cheating scandal in living memory.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=167551&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Columbia University Incoming Freshman Student Dead in Apparent Suicide</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/28/columbia-university-incoming-freshman-student-dead-in-apparent-suicide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The school year at Columbia University is off to a somber start: On Monday night an incoming freshman student was found dead after she either jumped or fell from the 14th floor window of her New York City dormitory. Eighteen-year-old Martha Corey-Ochoa, a first-year student from nearby Westchester County, was found unconscious by two of her fellow freshmen students at 11 p.m. on Monday just outside John Jay Hall, a residence hall where many freshmen students live. Many students began moving into the dorms on Monday to get ready for the school year, which officially begins Sept. 4. According to the Columbia Spectator, a campus newspaper, she was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Luke&#8217;s-Roosevelt Hospital sometime later that night. Brian Connolly, assistant vice president for public affairs, sent the following statement via email to TIME: &#8220;The Columbia community mourns the loss of Martha Corey-Ochoa, a first-year student at Columbia College, and extends our very deepest condolences to her family and friends. To support Columbia’s students and their families through this sad and difficult time, the dean of undergraduate student affairs has been informing our community of counseling services and other resources available through Counseling and Psychological Services, the Office of the University Chaplain, the Office of Parent and Family Programs, and Resident Assistants and Graduate Hall Directors.&#8221; According to the Spectator, around 2:15 a.m. Kevin Shollenberger, dean of student affairs, sent an email to students confirming the death. &#8220;It is with deep regret that I write to inform you of a death earlier this evening of one of our students,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Whenever there is a death such as this, we are all struck by a wide range of emotions and a deep sense of loss. Especially during this difficult time, please rely on one another, your family, and University offices for support.&#8221; Shollenberger sent another email at 5:20 a.m., which Connolly forwarded to TIME, releasing the name of the student. &#8220;I am following up to inform you that the student who passed away earlier this evening has been identified as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=167042&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ACT Scores Show High School Students Are Not Ready for College</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a reason why colleges have to remediate so many students. According to a report on college and career readiness from the ACT, the Class of 2012 has some catching up to do. According to the latest results of the organization&#8217;s standardized college entrance test, only 1 in 4 students qualify as prepared for college in all four subject areas: English, reading, math and science. While about 72% of all ACT test takers met at least one of the four benchmarks for college readiness, 28% of students did not meet any of them. Students were best in English, with 67% of test takers meeting that benchmark, and worst in science, with fewer than 1 in 3 students making the grade. Overall, the ACT scores were identical to last year&#8217;s—a 21.1 composite average. When broken down by race, the ACT results are consistent with the typical portrait of the achievement gap: Asian students were the most college ready, with 42% meeting all four benchmarks, and black students were the least college ready, with just 5% meeting the mark in all four subject areas. Read more and download the full report here. More education news from the week:  Schools As Segregated Today as They Were in the 1960s The same week as a report from the Pew Hispanic Center showed Hispanics comprise 25% of all public elementary school students, a report released yesterday by the Center for American Progress shows schools spend $344 more on every white student than they do on every student of color. The report also found that our schools are &#8220;as segregated today as they were in the 1960s.&#8221; Nearly 40% of black and Hispanic students attend schools where more than 90% of students are nonwhite, whereas the average white student attends a school where 77% of his or her peers are also white, the report found. Read the full report here. (At the higher ed level, the Pew report found Hispanics are now the largest minority group on two- and four-year campuses, comprising 16.5% of all college enrollments. See<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=166424&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using Twitter to Crack Down on Bullying</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/17/using-twitter-to-crack-down-on-bullying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to prevent bullying if you don&#8217;t know it&#8217;s happening. That&#8217;s why researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a program that they say is capable of detecting evidence of bullying from among the hundreds of millions of tweets sent each day. The program uses an algorithm to scour Twitter for words that &#8220;mark bullying events.&#8221; Out of the 250 million public tweets sent each day, the program usually identifies about 15,000 bullying-related messages. VIDEO: YouTube Bullying Confessions  The researchers found that while kids aren&#8217;t often open in real life about what they are going through, online, they are much more verbose. &#8220;What we found, very importantly, was that quite often the victim and the bully and even bystanders talk about a real-world bullying incident on social media,&#8221; Jerry Zhu, a professor of computer science at UW-Madison said in a release.  &#8221;The computers are seeing the aftermath.&#8221; (SPECIAL: What You Need to Know About Bullying) As GOOD notes, the program could be a way around one of the inherent problems with the reporting of bullying incidents, which is that the targets are often reluctant to report their tormentors, fearing an escalation in the aggression. Its developers hope that not only will their software help alert teachers and parents to bullying early on, but also show victims that they are not alone. &#8220;A way victims often make sense of their bullying is by internalizing it. They decide that there&#8217;s something bad about themselves — not that these other people are jerks,&#8221; Amy Bellmore, a professor of educational psychology at UW-Madison said in the release. &#8220;When they&#8217;re exposed to the idea that other people are bullied, actually it has some benefit. It doesn&#8217;t completely eliminate the depression or humiliation or embarrassment they might be feeling, but it can decrease it.&#8221; Next up, the researchers hope to expand the program to include other social networks, such as Facebook and China&#8217;s microblogging site, Sina Weibo. Kayla Webley is a staff writer at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @kaylawebley, on Facebook or on Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=164935&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One More Time: Yes, College Is Worth It</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/16/one-more-time-yes-college-is-worth-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sky-high student debt and countless stories about the plight of unemployed or underemployed college graduates has prompted a new wave of speculation as to whether college is really worth it. So perhaps some you might need this reminder: you know what&#8217;s even harder than not having a job? Not having a job or a college degree. A new study from Georgetown University&#8217;s Center on Education and the Workforce finds that a college degree is indeed the best defense against unemployment. &#8220;It&#8217;s a tough job market for college graduates,&#8221; the report says, &#8220;but far worse for those without a college education.&#8221; While the unemployment rate for recent four year college graduates is 6.8%, according to researchers the unemployment rate for recent high school graduates is nearly 24%. Additionally, nearly 200,000 jobs for workers with at least a Bachelor&#8217;s degree were added during the recession; 2 million jobs for college-educated workers have been added during the recovery. At the same time, nearly four out of every five jobs destroyed by the recession were held by workers with a high school diploma or less. Read the executive summary and download the full report here. More education news from the week: Free Online Education Surges, Plagued by Plagiarism  Coursera, a company that provides free online courses in conjunction with several prestigious universities, announced last week it had registered one million students.  One of Coursera&#8217;s competitors, Udacity, has nearly 740,000 students. But with the popularity of free online courses surging, professors and students are growing increasingly concerned over plagiarism. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, one Coursera professor issued an online plea to his 39,000 students to stop cheating; in recent weeks, dozens of students in at least three Coursera courses have complained that their work has been copied by other students. Coursera told the Chronicle it will review the issue and may consider adding plagiarism-detection software. Read the full story here. Fake Money Aims to Highlight the Dropout Crisis The latest prop in the College Board&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget Ed&#8221; campaign, which aims to make education a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=164907&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yale Settles Charges of Sexual Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/15/yale-settles-charges-of-sexual-discrimination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 18:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Education announced on Friday that it had resolved a complaint that Yale University had failed to eliminate sexual discrimination on campus. The complaint, filed by a group of 16 current and former students in March 2011, stemmed from an incident on campus on the evening of Oct. 13, 2010, in which members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity marched across the Yale campus to a dorm where many female students lived and chanted &#8220;No means yes! Yes means anal!&#8221; A video of the chanting men was posted online and quickly went viral, spurring an uproar at the university and nationwide. The complainants alleged that Yale did not adequately punish those involved in the incident &#8212; and in a long list of previous incidents &#8212; and in failing to do so, created a sexually hostile environment on campus. The complainants said the university&#8217;s failings precluded women from having the same access to education as their male counterparts—which would put the school in violation of the federal Title IX law, which stipulates that any educational institution that takes federal funding cannot discriminate against women. (Sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape are all considered discrimination on the basis of sex.) (READ: It&#8217;s Not Just Yale: Are Colleges Doing Enough to Combat Sexual Violence?) Under the agreement with the Department of Education&#8217;s Office of Civil Rights (OCR), Yale has agreed to improve and publicize university resources and programming aimed at responding to and preventing sexual harassment and violence, provide periodic assessments of the campus climate, implement a new grievance process designed to promptly and equitably address complaints of sexual misconduct and, when appropriate, notify the campus community of the outcome of complaints. OCR will continue to monitor the university through May 31, 2014. &#8220;Sexual violence and harassment have no place in our nation&#8217;s schools,&#8221; Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights said in a statement. &#8221;Every student must have a fair chance to a high quality education, but sexual harassment and violence far too often deny students their right to an equal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=152389&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fulfilling a &#8216;DREAM&#8217;: U.S. to Let Young Undocumented Immigrants Stay</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/15/letting-the-undocumented-stay-legally-a-dramatic-shift-in-u-s-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration announced a policy change on Friday to allow some undocumented young people to avoid deportation. Under a directive from the Department of Homeland Security, as many as 800,000 illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children will be permitted to stay in the country and legally obtain work permits. The announcement will provide relief for &#8220;dreamers,&#8221; the group of undocumented students who have long fought for the right to stay in the U.S., which is in many cases the only country they have ever known. While the policy will not lead to citizenship for the dreamers, it removes the constant threat of deportation many of them have lived with for their entire lives. The news comes just a day after TIME’s cover story this week, “We Are Americans,” which reported about how undocumented youths have been a focus of reform efforts — and a potential flash point for the politics of the presidential election as both parties court Latino voters. TIME’s article, written by Jose Antonio Vargas — who himself is openly undocumented — explored a surge of young people coming out about their status and how those increasingly visible faces reshape the immigration debate. (COVER STORY: We Are Americans, Just Not Legally) To avoid deportation under the new directive, illegal immigrants must have been brought to the U.S. before they were 16 years old and be younger than 30. They must have stayed in the country for at least five continuous years, have no criminal history, and be enrolled in or have graduated from a U.S. high school or have earned a GED or have served in the military. The move allows the Obama Administration to bypass Congress to achieve some of the goals included in the Dream Act, which would have allowed illegal immigrants to stay in the country if they had joined the military or attended college in the U.S. The decade-old bill was passed by the House two years ago but blocked by Republicans in the Senate. Just last week, two illegal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=152275&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Good-Grade Pills&#8217;: How High School Students Are Using Prescription Drugs to Get Ahead</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/11/good-grade-pills-how-high-school-students-are-using-prescription-drugs-to-get-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students abusing drugs like Adderall and Ritalin isn&#8217;t a new problem: they&#8217;ve long been weapons of choice for college kids looking to pull all-nighters. But according to the New York Times, that trend is now trickling down to the high school level. In a lengthy story on the front page Sunday, the Times reported that behind many high achieving students lies a secret addiction to prescription stimulants. (MORE: ADHD Drugs and Grades: How Big a Problem Is It?) While drugs like Adderall, Vyvanse, Concerta, Focalin and Ritalin &#8212; the &#8220;good grade pills,&#8221; as the story dubbed them &#8212; calm people with A.D.H.D., those without the disorder receive an energy jolt from the pills. Students use that jolt to help keep them awake to study or to stay focused during tests like the S.A.T. In fact, since 2007, the number of prescriptions for A.D.H.D. medications dispensed to people ages 10 to 19 has risen by 26%, to almost 21 million yearly, or about two million individuals, the Times reports. The story details the ease with which students are able to get prescriptions for the pills (&#8220;many youngsters with prescriptions said their doctors merely listened to their stories and took out their prescription pads,&#8221; it says). One unnamed teen told the Times, &#8220;I lie to my psychiatrist — I expressed feelings I didn&#8217;t really have, knowing the consequences of it. I tell the doctor, &#8216;I find myself very distracted, and I feel this really deep pain inside, like I&#8217;m anxious all the time.&#8217;&#8221; (MORE: Ritalin for Toddlers?) Beyond the kids-on-stimulants trend, the Times speculates about what effect the drugs may have on these students further down the road. Not only could these pills, which the students often snort lines of, serve as a gateway to narcotics like heroin and cocaine, but abuse of the stimulants can lead to depression, mood swings, heart irregularities, acute exhaustion or psychosis. &#8220;Children have prefrontal cortexes that are not fully developed, and we&#8217;re changing the chemistry of the brain. That&#8217;s what these drugs do. It&#8217;s one thing if you<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=151178&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Woman With Asperger&#8217;s Dodges Bullet on Nearly $340,000 in Student Loans</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/30/woman-with-aspergers-dodges-bullet-on-nearly-340000-in-student-loans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 12:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bankruptcy judge has ruled in favor of a Maryland resident who claimed she could not repay her student loans because her Asperger&#8217;s syndrome prevents her from holding a job. Carol Todd, who attended the University of Baltimore School of Law in the 1990s before dropping out, successfully made the case that her disability prevented her from repaying the nearly $340,000 she owed in student loans. In order to relinquish the debt, Todd had to prove she would suffer &#8220;undue hardship&#8221; if forced to repay her student loans—a condition that is extremely difficult to demonstrate. In deciding in Todd&#8217;s favor, Judge Robert Gordon, a bankruptcy judge for the District of Maryland, acknowledged Asperger&#8217;s—an autistic spectrum disorder that is typified by problems with social interaction—as a disability that could prevent Todd from repaying her loans. &#8220;To expect Ms. Todd to ever break the grip of autism and meaningfully channel her energies toward tasks that are not in some way either dictated, or circumscribed, by the demands of her disorder would be to dream the impossible dream,&#8221; Gordon wrote in his judgment. Todd&#8217;s educational history is a mixed bag. According to the Baltimore Sun, she received her high school equivalency degree, or GED, at age 39. She then earned her associates degree and multiple bachelors degrees, eventually enrolling in the University of Baltimore School of Law as well as taking online classes at an unaccredited university. Todd dropped out of law school, but received a Ph.D. from the online school as well as a master&#8217;s degree from Towson University. Despite those degrees, Judge Gordon said that Todd&#8217;s Asperger&#8217;s prevented her from getting a job and maintaining a minimal standard of living. As a result, she was forced to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2009. According to The National Law Journal, at the time of her trial in November 2009, she was 63 years old and owed $339,361 to three student loan creditors. Aside from the large sums and implications in the mental health community, what makes Todd&#8217;s case newsworthy is that unlike<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=148605&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Are the Best High Schools in the U.S.?</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/09/where-are-the-best-high-schools-in-the-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['U.S. News and World Report' has released its annual ranking of the best public high schools in the country. Hint: yours probably isn't on it. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=144719&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Glamour&#8216;s &#8217;30 Things You Should Have by the Time You&#8217;re 30&#8242; List Makes Us Feel Horribly Inadequate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women&#8217;s magazines love to give advice. They&#8217;ll tell you how to please a man, what new trends to wear this summer and which mascara is worth your money. Perhaps one of the most famous of all these advice stories is an article written by Pamela Redmond Satran for Glamour in 1997: &#8220;30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She&#8217;s 30.&#8221; In the 15 years since the list was published, it has circulated in email and been incorrectly attributed to the likes of Maya Angelou and Hillary Clinton. Cashing in on that popularity, Glamour has released a book of the same name with essays written by famous women about each of the items. The list itself is pretty daunting. By 30, we&#8217;re supposed to have it all, and I mean all: the makings of a satisfying career, a satisfying relationship, a retirement fund, a cordless drill and an umbrella you&#8217;re not ashamed of. Dream on. With huge numbers of 20-somethings having to move back home because the unemployment rate is so high and others having to work unpaid internships, we&#8217;re lucky if we have a few pieces of Ikea furniture to put together. (Though a nice umbrella might be possible.) (MORE: The State of the American Woman) But beyond making women without a set of screw drivers feel inadequate, it&#8217;s surprising that Glamour didn&#8217;t choose to update the list, given how much has changed in the past 15 years. Not only are some of the items woefully behind the times — Who doesn&#8217;t have an e-mail address these days? — many of the goals seem retro in their portrayal of female success. Are a boyfriend, a skin-care regimen and a black lace bra really still the measure of making it? Is 30 still the magical age when you&#8217;re supposed to have it all figured out? We don&#8217;t think so, and offer this list as a much-needed reality check. By 30, it&#8217;s perfectly O.K. if all you have is &#8230; 1. One old boyfriend you may always<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=142792&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think Computers Can Replace Humans as Test Graders? Think Again.</title>
		<link>http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/24/think-computers-can-replace-humans-as-test-graders-think-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a robot was grading this article as if it were an essay on the SAT, the perfect opening line would go a little something like this: Computerized robotic technology has been shown to be a highly efficient device to grade standardized examinations, however, when put to the test the mechanized system is easy to thwart. That&#8217;s according to The New York Times, who challenged recent findings that claimed there was little difference between human and robot graders. The Times had Les Perelman, a director of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and opponent of electronic grading, kick the tires on Education Testing Service&#8217;s e-Rater, which the service says it uses in conjunction with human essay readers. (E.T.S., which develops the standard GRE graduate school entrance exam, was the only provider that allowed Perelman to test-drive their electronic grader.) Among other faults, Perelman found the e-Rater is not capable of telling truth from fiction, so there is little incentive for test takers to get their facts straight. (In one test, he responded to a question about high college tuition rates by blaming greedy teaching assistants, who &#8220;receive a plethora of extra benefits such as private jets, vacations in the south seas, starring roles in motion pictures.&#8221; He got the highest possible score.) The robotic system also prefers long essays, long paragraphs, long sentences and long, complex words. It doesn&#8217;t like sentences that start with &#8220;and&#8221; or &#8220;or,&#8221; but it does favor words such as &#8220;however&#8221; and &#8220;moreover.&#8221; All told, it&#8217;s a pretty easy system to game. &#8220;Once you understand e-Rater&#8217;s biases it&#8217;s not hard to raise your test score,&#8221; Perelman told the Times. Perelman&#8217;s findings are in response to a large-scale April 13 study from researchers at the University of Akron that found human readers and software programs gave roughly the same rating to some 22,000 essays written by high school students. While computerized systems are undoubtedly the most efficient means of evaluating essays—a human grader is only capable of grading a maximum of some 30 essays an hour,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=141918&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catastrophic Brain Injuries at All-Time High in High School Football</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, 13 high school football players—the most ever recorded in one year—were left permanently disabled as a result of a football-related brain injury. According to a new report from the University of North Carolina&#8217;s National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, double digit totals for catastrophic brain injuries among high school football players is new. Between 1984 and 2007, the number of injuries was consistently below 10 each year, until 2008 and 2009 when, each year, 10 players were left permanently disabled. In 2010, the total was down to five, before spiking to 13 last year, despite the recent renewed attention on the dangers of head injuries in football. To reverse the increase, the study recommends increasing awareness, eliminating helmet-to-helmet contact and teaching safer tackling techniques. Read more from Education Week here. More education news from the week: UC Nearly Doubles Non-Resident Admissions in Two Years Admissions data from the University of California system shows the number of non-Californians accepted comprise 23% of the class. This year, the university admitted 18,846 non-resident students, up from 9,552 in 2010. While its quite the increase, it shouldn&#8217;t be too surprising as the university is dealing with steep budget cuts and non-residents pay nearly three times as much tuition as in-state students. Read more here. Kindergartner Handcuffed A six-year-old in Georgia was handcuffed by police after she threw a tantrum in the principal&#8217;s office. Read more here. Quote of the week: Showing little empathy for college graduates with record-high debt, Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolinian Republican, said: &#8220;I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there&#8217;s no reason for that.&#8221; (To be fair, the average student loan debt total at graduation is $27,500.) Number: 40% The number of school districts that have eliminated or are working on eliminating recess, despite a growing body of evidence that links physical activity to academic performance. Read more here. UC Davis Police Chief to Retire Annette Spicuzza, the police chief<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=141098&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Colleges Really Make Admissions Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kayla Webley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shrouded in mystery, the college admissions process often leaves students and parents puzzled as to why some gain admittance while others receive the dreaded rejection letter. Most colleges say they review applications holistically, taking into account a student&#8217;s grades, test scores, essays, recommendations and activities. But do they really? A new study from Rachel Rubin, a doctoral student in education at Harvard University, sheds light on the admissions process at the U.S.&#8217;s elite colleges, which admitted record-low numbers of students this year. Rubin found that when it comes to selecting an incoming freshman class, some schools are much more holistic than others. Rather than whittling down the pile of applicants by GPA or SAT scores, Rubin found that admissions officials at some of the 75 elite colleges and universities she surveyed (which were granted anonymity) use a much vaguer measure called institutional fit to decide who gets in and who doesn&#8217;t. This approach, used most commonly by liberal-arts colleges and competitive private universities, focuses on nonacademic qualities and favors underrepresented minorities and students who demonstrate exceptional talent, according to Inside Higher Ed. To a much lesser degree, colleges also consider recruited athletes, the likelihood a student will enroll and a student&#8217;s fundraising potential. &#8220;Contrary to public opinion, selective institutions are highly systematic with regard to their admissions processes and practices within individual institutions,&#8221; Rubin wrote in the report. &#8220;However, there is a great deal of inconsistency across institutions, potentially creating the illusion that student selection is arbitrary.&#8221; While the majority of schools Rubin surveyed did in fact make the initial admissions cut based on grades and test scores, 21% made the first cuts based on student essays, recommendations and specific questions on whether applicants were expected to thrive at the college. In an interview with Inside Higher Ed, Rubin said she thought the colleges made cuts based on nonacademic merit because the vast majority of applicants already had sufficiently high academic credentials. Other education news for the week: Tennessee Law Allows Teachers to Question Science By not vetoing or signing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=newsfeed.time.com&#038;blog=12783068&#038;post=139601&#038;subd=timenewsfeed&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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