Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum expands reach with archive, library building

Music museum expands reach with archive, library

Republican challengers for Texas’ influential education board seek to oust far-right members

GOP challengers join Texas ed board battleground

Universities push to get all students counted in 2010 Census, with federal funding at stake

Universities push to get students in Census 2010

Students storm San Diego chancellor’s office after noose is found in campus library

San Diego students storm offices after noose found

Rankins scores 25 as Savannah State pulls away from Carver Bible College in 94-68 rout

Savannah State defeats Carver Bible College 94-68

Student hangs noose at San Diego campus library 2 weeks after racially tinged party

Student hangs noose at San Diego campus library

Obama strengthens White House initiative on historically black colleges

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White group’s step show win causes fiery debate over integration of traditional black activity

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Oilman T. Boone Pickens gives another $100M to alma mater Oklahoma State to fund endowments

Pickens gives another $100M to Oklahoma State

Police, Penn State crack down on ‘State Patty’s Day,’ criticized as an excuse for drinking

Police, Penn St. target St. Patty’s Day lookalike

Oklahoma City Community College evacuated after report of gun; police say no weapon found

Okla. campus shut, police say gun report was false

Pa. professor says she was suspended over ‘joke’ Facebook posting about seeking hit man

Pa. prof: Suspended over hit man Facebook posting

Obama to sign order supporting mission of historically black colleges

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Wal-Mart to push suppliers to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions

Wal-Mart to push suppliers to cut emissions

Teachers to appeal mass firings at chronically troubled Central Falls, RI, high school

Teachers to appeal mass firings at RI high school

Military spouses angered that career education grants abruptly suspended by Defense Dept.

Military spouses angry that DoD halts job grants

As EU seeks to appease bond market, painful cutbacks make some fear renewed recession

European Union pushes cuts for indebted countries

Pa. student who filed webcam spying suit says school administrator’s denial falls short

Student: School webcam spying denial falls short

Prosecutors open investigations in German Catholic school abuse scandal

Legal investigations begin in German abuse scandal

Trapani sets pace with 17 in first half to lead Boston College to 80-60 win over Virginia Tech

Boston College wins easy over Virginia Tech 80-60

Student party mocking Black History Month prompts anti-racism campaign at UC San Diego

Student party prompts anti-racism school campaign

Arkansas House, Senate back $4.5B spending plan, lottery scholarship amounts

Ark. Legislature OKs budget, lotto scholarships

Plan to fire all high school teachers roils poor RI city where student achievement lags

Plan to fire all its teachers roils poor RI city

Pa. educator named in school laptop spying case says she didn’t monitor student webcams

Pa. educator says she didn’t watch student webcams

6 Haitian orphans resume journey to US homes, board airplane bound for Miami

6 Haitian orphans resume trip to US homes

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The director of an orphanage in Haiti says six children are boarding a Miami-bound airplane four days after Haitian officials seized them at the airport.

RI district fires all educators at underperforming high school; US DOE applauds decision

All educators fired at underperforming RI school

UC San Diego freezes media funding after student TV show mocks blacks’ outrage to ghetto party

University TV show mocking blacks sparks freeze

Few people survive 5 heart attacks; Cheney illustrates peril and progress in heart disease

Cheney’s 5 heart attacks unusual, shows good care

Ark. lawmakers refuse to give up $2.9M in local project money for budget needs

Ark. lawmakers refuse to give up project money

Health Care REIT, Forest City form joint venture over Cambridge, Mass., project

Health Care REIT, Forest City form joint venture

Ralph Remington is named director of the NEA’s theater and musical-theater division

Ralph Remington is named NEA theater division head

Salman Rushdie visits Atlanta’s Emory University for opening of his literary archive

Salman Rushdie visits Emory for opening of archive

New teacher contracts in Minn., Conn., Philly support reforms in failing urban schools

Teacher contracts support reforms in worst schools

Univision and the Obama administration join forces to improve Hispanic academic achievement

Univision, feds team up to boost Hispanic ed

China tells schools to cut ties with relief agency Oxfam, says it has hidden political agenda

China tells schools to shun relief agency Oxfam

Liberia ex-fighters told government cannot pay college fees as promised, forcing drop-outs

Liberia ex-fighters drop studies as money runs out

China rejects report schools linked to hacking, criticizes suggestions government involved

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China orders schools to shun British relief agency Oxfam over alleged political agenda

China tells schools to shun British agency Oxfam

Reticent Toyota president typical for Japan Inc., where harmony reigns not wherewithal

Reticent Toyota president typical for Japan Inc.

Arkansas House panel endorses $5K scholarships for 4-year schools, $2,500 for 2-year

Ark. House panel endorses $5K lottery scholarships

Stanford receiver sues for return of $1.6 million in financier’s political contributions

Receiver wants Stanford political donations back

Pa. district accused of webcam spying could have tracked laptops less intrusively, experts say

Experts: School can track laptops less intrusively

American Public Education 2010 earnings outlook misses Street, but revenue to top forecast

American Public Education issues 2010 outlook

American Public Education 4th-quarter net income rises 66 percent as student enrollment climbs

American Public Education 4Q net income up 66 pct

Retiring University of Virginia president John Casteen named to Altria’s board of directors

UVa head joins Philip Morris parent Altria’s board

Pa. school district agrees to preserve webcam evidence on 2,300 laptops amid spying lawsuit

Pa. schools agree to preserve webcam evidence

Pa. district accused in suit of webcam spying is asked not to clear computers of evidence

Pa. school district is asked not to wipe computers

Menachem Porush, Israeli rabbi, politician and ultra-Orthodox Jewish activist, dies at 93

Powerful ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi dies at 93

Lawyers due in Pa. court in suit over webcam-spying allegations against school district

Lawyers due in Pa. court in school webcam spy case

Using federal money as leverage, Obama hopes to prod states to raise academic standards

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