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LearnZillion does a number on classrooms
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Dec 20, 2011
The online video service offers teachers hundreds of instructional math videos, for free. But what about the human touch?
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California schools get hit again
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Dec 14, 2011
The state will take another $200 million from public universities in the state. What's left to cut?
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Billionaires go back to school
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Dec 8, 2011
Philanthropists are funneling big money into public education. Are they too powerful?
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Running education more like a business
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Dec 8, 2011
Philanthropist Eli Broad discusses the problems with education and his ideas on how to fix it.
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Foreign students in U.S. at record high
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Nov 14, 2011
700,000 students enrolled at U.S. university and college campuses last year from abroad, contributing $21 billion to the U.S. economy, according to a new report.
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The lure of Chinese students
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Nov 10, 2011
They are plentiful, they pay full tuition and American colleges and universities are eager to enroll them -- despite questions about their credentials.
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The Chinese Student Syndrome
Nov 9, 2011
In this special report, Marketplace explores how U.S. colleges are grappling with the questionable credentials coming from China -- even as they profit from the system.
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Chinese students, too qualified to be true?
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Nov 9, 2011
China has hundreds of agencies that specialize in getting Chinese students into American colleges and universities. But their application materials may be as much fiction as fact. A two-part series.
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Piggy Bank Award: Teaching the true cost of college
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Nov 5, 2011
We are rewarding a math teacher today for helping her students understand the costs of college attendance.









