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Justice Indira Banerjee directed the SSC to make fresh arrangements for the interview of a candidate for the post of headmaster in a Murshidabad school, who was denied permission for having obtained his degree following a distance learning course.Read the Full Story
Select students at the schools will take 10th-grade reading or 11th-grade social studies tests on computers, while the rest of the students will continue to take pencil-and-paper tests. Read the Full Story
The dispute involves more than $100,000 in tuition that taxpayers in a suburban Pittsburgh school district paid for U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum’s children to be educated via computer at their Virginia home–revealing a basic flaw in Pennsylvania’s 2002 cyber-school law.Read the Full Story
Legislators need to clarify which students may enroll in Internet-based schools at taxpayer expense, said state Rep. James Roebuck, the ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee. Read the Full Story
But in the spirit of the New Year, financial-aid experts are urging people not to throw their hands up in despair.Read the Full Story
Frustrated by the failure of e-mail solicitations to generate much response – largely because of the colleges’ own unrestrained e-mail policies – admission directors are looking for new ways to incorporate the Internet into their marketing plans. For some, that means setting up more online chats. For others, it means streaming more video from their […]
Speaking about the state’s beleaguered school finance system, the Republican governor said: “We will stay until it gets fixed.”Read the Full Story
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Because of the changes, which take effect next fall and are expected to save the government $300 million in the 2005-6 academic year, at least 1.3 million students will receive smaller Pell Grants, the nation’s primary scholarship for those of low income, according to two analyses of the new rules.Read the Full Story
To answer some of the questions people have about furthering their education in virtual classrooms, and to hopefully quell some of the natural hesitation people have these types of program, the nation’s largest facilitator of Internet-based learning, for its take on the situation.Read the Full Story