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Don’t get me wrong. A four-year college degree is still valuable. Over your lifetimes, you’ll earn about 70 percent more than people who don’t have the pieces of parchment you’re picking up today.

But this parchment isn’t as valuable as it once was. ...

The extraordinary rise in student debt is due to two related facts: the cost of a college education continues to increase faster than inflation, and state and local spending per college student continues to drop – this year reaching a 25-year low. ...

At some point in the not-too-distant future these lines cross. College is no longer a good investment.

That’s a problem for you and for those who will follow you into these hallowed halls, but it’s also a problem for America as a whole.

You see, a college education isn’t just a private investment. It’s also a public good. This nation can’t be competitive globally, nor can we have a vibrant and responsible democracy, without a large number of well-educated people.

So it’s not just you who are burdened by these trends. If they continue, we’re all f*cked.

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HHS' Office of Adolescent Health last month added an abstinence-only education curriculum to its list of 31 evidence-based pregnancy prevention programs that are eligible for federal funding...

Heritage Keepers does not include instruction on contraception, condoms, sexually transmitted infections or safe sexual behavior, according to Salon, which notes that the program's student manual states that "girls have a responsibility to wear modest clothing that doesn't invite lustful thoughts" ...

HHS spokesperson Mark Weber said Heritage Keeper has fulfilled the evidence-based criteria, "gone through a transparent, rigorous review process," and shown "demonstrated outcomes" of delaying sexual activity ...

[YES. GURLZ ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PUTTING THE WICKED THOUGHTS IN BOYS' HEADS. IT ARE SKIENCE FACT. 

ALSO KEEPING KIDS IGNORANT IS TOTALLY A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT GOING TO NEED THIS INFORMATION WHEN THEY GROW UP AND ANYWAY SCHOOL IS NOT SUPPOSED TO PREPARE THEM FOR ACTUAL ADULT LIFE LOLZORS.

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In a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on April 30, more than a dozen major groups -- including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Human Rights Campaign -- asked the department to explain the decision. The program "ostracizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth; promotes heterosexual marriage as the only acceptable family structure; withholds life-saving information from sexually active youth; and uses fear-based messages to shame youth who have been sexually active and youth living in 'nontraditional' households," the letter said.

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California has more diploma mills than any other state in the nation, but it is not doing enough to protect students from the unaccredited colleges and vocational schools that issue worthless degrees, state lawmakers said at hearing Wednesday. ...

Metune's appointment followed a series of Bay Citizen investigations that revealed the bureau had failed to properly oversee the state's 1,300 technical, vocational and other private postsecondary schools. The series found that the bureau failed to vigorously investigate complaints, monitor the quality of educational programs, and track or penalize unaccredited schools. The Bay Citizen later found more than 130 postsecondary schools operating with expired state approvals.

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Make no mistake, Minnesota has some awesome high schools producing state, national, and even world leaders. The yearly U.S. News rankings of America's top High schools are out. The usual suspects top the list, along with a few surprises.

Minneapolis Southwest is the top High School in Minnesota and in the top 200 nationwide, out of tens of thousands of high schools. Pretty impressive. A funny thing happens though, when you use subsets of test scores for judging schools, and in essence their teachers. You see, the number 1 high school in the state has been labeled a failure for at least six straight years. ...

Luckily for them, Southwest does not receive Federal Title 1 Funds. If they did, they would have been closed down four years ago! I will say that again for emphasis. If the #1 High School in Minnesota just had a few more poor kids, they would have shut it down years ago.

...All in all, more than half of the top ten [in Minn.] are made up of NCLB failures.

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EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free.

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Initially airing February 2010, For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots is a PBS documentary that details the military contributions of African Americans. Realizing the educational significance of the film, the U.S. Army created an edited 25-minute version of the film and corresponding high school and college facilitator guides. The materials, structured to fit a classroom timeframe, are versatile and can compliment studies in American history, civics, social studies and ROTC programs.

ipl2 was asked by a representative of United Solutions and Services, LLC., to continue offering these materials after funding from the U.S. Army for hosting these materials at their original site (http://www.forloveofliberty.net/) ran out on September 30, 2010.

Two professors, Marcelite D. Johnson, Ph.D. and Jewell G. Winn, Ed.D., of M and J Consultants, holding PhD's in curriculum development created the facilitator guides. These guides define course outcomes, general information, important facts and post viewing questions for each chapter.

The chapters of the film are divided according to wars, which allow educators the option to adapt the materials to fit specific topical discussions. The 25-minute version can be shown in its entirety or according to appropriate content. Either way, educators can customize the video footage to support several presentation formats.

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California State University will accept no new admissions for the spring semester of 2013 - with a few exceptions - as part of a drastic cost-cutting strategy to reduce enrollment by about 16,000 students next spring, officials said Monday.

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Los Angeles, CA - Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. ...




And not just any books - not romance novels or the latest best-sellers - but scholarly books: textbooks, secondary treatises, obscure monographs, biographical analyses, technical manuals, collections of cutting-edge research in engineering, mathematics, biology, social science and humanities.




The texts ranged from so-called "orphan works" (out-of-print, but still copyrighted) to recent issues; from poorly scanned to expertly ripped; from English to German to French to Spanish to Russian, with the occasional Japanese or Chinese text. It was a remarkable effort of collective connoisseurship. Even the pornography was scholarly: guidebooks and scholarly books about the pornography industry. For a criminal underground site to be mercifully free of pornography must alone count as a triumph of civilisation.




...Library.nu was making...learning possible where publishers have not. It made a good show of being a "book review" site - it was called library.nu after all, and not "bookstore.nu". It was not cluttered with advertisements, nor did it "suggest" other books constantly. It gave straight answers to straightforward searches, and provided user reviews of the 400,000 or more books in the database.




It was only the fact that library.nu included a link to another site ("sharehosting" sites like ifile.it, megaupload.com, or mediafire.com) containing the complete version of a digital text that brought library.nu into the realm of what passes for crime these days.




...library.nu was facilitating discovery: the ability to search deeper and deeper into the musical or scholarly tastes fellow humans and to discover their connections that no recommendation algorithm will ever be able to make. In their effort to control this market, publishers alongside the movie and music industry have been effectively criminalising sharing, learning and creating - not stealing.

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The University of Pennsylvania Health System provides nearly 200 video animations and explanations of injuries, diseases, and body systems. The animations, like this one of a balloon angioplasty, are concise which makes them good for general reference purposes.

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The Big Apple Circus' jugglers, clowns and high-flying acrobats provide an entertaining and engaging way to introduce basic physics concepts to high school students. Eight videos feature footage from the series and interviews with the performers to illustrate the laws of physics at work.

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We are happy to announce the launch of the free Beta version of the Wolfram Education Portal. The portal comes equipped with a dynamic and interactive textbook, lesson plans aligned to the common core standards, and many other supplemental materials for your courses, including Wolfram Demonstrations, widgets, and videos. The Education Portal currently contains full materials for Algebra and partial materials for Calculus, but will continue to grow and improve with your comments and feedback.

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Teaching boxes are classroom-ready instructional units created by collaboration between teachers, scientists, and designers. Each box helps to bridge the gap between educational resources and how to implement them in the classroom. The Teaching Boxes contain materials that model scientific inquiry, allowing teachers to build classroom experiences around data collection and analysis from multiple lines of evidence, and engaging students in the process of science. - focusing on gathering and analyzing scientific evidence. All educators may use DLESE Teaching Boxes free of charge.

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NSDL is the nation's online portal for education and research on learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

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The Biology Corner is a resource site for biology and science teachers. It contains a variety of lessons, quizzes, labs, web quests, and information on science topics. You can find lessons related to biology topics in the links listed under “topics” on the sidebar. Topics include: Ecology, Genetics, Anatomy, Cells, Scientific Method, and Evolution. I do not at this time have answer keys for the worksheets posted, as students use this site to access their own homework and assignments.

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Online courses from the world's top scholars.

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Corvid is just one example of several new experiments in egalitarian alternatives to formal education. Last February, poet Alan Kaufman launched The Free Univeristy in the basement of antique shop, Viracocha, offering free five-week courses taught by volunteer teachers. Anyone with access to the internet can take advantage of websites like Skillshare and Khan Academy that offer online courses in everything from ice cream making to algebra.

The impetus for the first iteration of Corvid College, named for a family of birds Greer describes as non-hierarchical, was a 2008 email from Eric Buck, of the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement (BAM), who wrote that he was looking for radical educators to try an experiment with education.

Over long chats and glasses of wine (glasses of wine feature prominently in the Corvid model), Greer and his collaborators brought down the walls of the Hassle Castle: anyone who submitted a plan for a class, and attended a new teacher orientation, followed by a hoedown, could teach. ...

Greer caps his classes at 15 students, and is also serious about attendance; practicing something he calls Reverse Bribery. He charges $200 up front and refunds $20 every time a student attends class. If a student doesn’t attend, he spends the $20 on wine and snacks for the rest.

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Can college students develop solutions to end the high school dropout crisis and close the achievement gap? That's the hope of rEDesign Education, a new grassroots initiative created by University of Michigan undergraduates. ...

The initiative isn't limiting itself to students at Michigan, either. The group posted the project at DoSomething.org and are actively recruiting other college-based groups to start rEDesign efforts on their campuses and help design "systemic transformations in K-12 education." They're also asking students to tweet their ideas using the hashtag #rEDesignMyEdu...

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