{"id":21542,"date":"2010-08-16T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=21542"},"modified":"2010-08-16T14:16:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:16:02","slug":"college-related-articles-for-august-16-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=21542","title":{"rendered":"College Related Articles For August 16, 2010&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Education\/2010\/0816\/Yale-gets-an-F-New-assessment-of-colleges-required-education\">The Christian Science Monitor<\/a> reports on the WhatWillTheyLearn.com website that has graded over 700 colleges and has wound up giving Yale an F on curriculum. Harvard got a D, while Lamar University and around 15 other places got an A rating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2010\/08\/15\/2151811\/harvard-gets-schooled-when-it.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> Writers Group also reports on this as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20100816\/BIZ01\/8160312\/1026\/schools\/Pay-less-for-college-textbooks\">The AP is out<\/a> with a new article on cutting college textbook prices.<\/p>\n<p>My Quick thought on the website is that do we have to require all of those classes to really have a high quality high school grad.  I say no.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/business\/bs-bz-park-ranger-shortage-20100810,0,1602817.story\">The Baltimore Sun reports<\/a> on the USA going to colleges to recruit the next park rangers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.timesdispatch.com\/news\/local-news\/2010\/aug\/16\/coll16-ar-427544\/\">The Times Dispatch<\/a> reports on out-of-state students boosting the revenue at two colleges in the state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/education\/higher\/articles\/2010\/08\/16\/college_students_offered_free_bus_rides_in_maine\/\">The AP reports<\/a> on college students in Maine that are getting free bus rides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/15\/realestate\/15wczo.html?_r=1&#038;ref=education\">The New York Times<\/a> looks at solutions to dorm overcrowding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Science Monitor reports on the WhatWillTheyLearn.com website that has graded over 700 colleges and has wound up giving Yale an F on curriculum. Harvard got a D, while Lamar University and around 15 other places got an A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=21542\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21560,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21542\/revisions\/21560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}