new software in the elementary and middle school grade levels that is going to help teachers figure out which students are falling behind based on state standardized exams.

who said they robbed some banks earlier this year in Ohio due to the high cost of tuition has been sentenced to 20-year prison terms.

The San Diego Union-Tribune looks at this magnet school and the process they are going to through to create a new curriculum from scratch. They are thinking of going with a block schedule for classes.

cutting costs as the state deals with some budget problems that it has.

are both increasing efforts to offset tuition by creating endowments just for scholarships. The Article says that the University of Michigan has a 7.1 billion endowment while Michigan state University has a 1.6 billion endowment.

Nice idea, but all they really need to do is spend money from the one big endowment they already have on tuition.

Take the University of Michigan for instance. If they only got a 5% return on the endowment they would get around 350 million bucks on it. Spending just 1/3 of it on lowering tuition could easily wipe out all of the extra tuition cost needed by all out of state students going to that college.

that the new rule limiting the amount of classes a college student can drop may hurt some students.