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Congress gives college aid a boostWASHINGTON — More needy college students will have access to bigger Pell Grants, and future borrowers of government loans will have an easier time repaying them, under a vast overhaul of higher education aid on its way to President Barack Obama's desk.
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- Supreme Court rejects student’s appeal over ban on playing of ‘Ave Maria’ at graduation
- House passes increased college aid for students in need; ends reliance on private lenders
- Student loan rewrite, tacked on to health care, could give Obama another domestic win
- NCAA: Maryland beats Houston 89-77; 8 teams with double-digit seeds advance to second round
- NCAA: Gary Williams has Maryland close to advancing to second round for second straight year
- NCAA: California beats Pitino’s Louisville 77-62, advances to play No. 1 seed Duke
- NCAA: Houston looking tired; Cougars played 4 games in 4 days in conference tourney
- NCAA: Ohio State defeats UC-Santa Barbara, plays Georgia Tech next; Syracuse routs Vermont
- Grant’s charge, Johnson’s play inside send No. 4 seed Purdue past giant-killer Siena 72-64
- India gets $1 bn World Bank loan to improve education
- Lawmakers trim student aid package now linked to health care bill
- Teams with low graduation rates should be barred from NCAA tourney, Education Secretary says
- Duncan: Education proposal broadens focus beyond math, reading, to ‘well-rounded education’
- Obama promises better prepared teachers, improved schools so kids can achieve full potential
- Obama to outline overhaul of federal education law, prepares to link tax dollars with progress
- Health care plan could also help resurrect college aid plan
- Pelosi says it won’t be long before health care bill passes; Dems add student loans to package
- Rakesh Mohan joins Yale faculty
- Police helicopter makes emergency landing in DC; school evacuated
- Obama gives away $1.4 million in Nobel prize money to charities
- Indian-American professor turns chicken feathers into fuel
- Are you smarter than a 5th-grader? New math, English standards could make it easier to tell
- Are you as smart as a kindergartner? Read the proposed new national math, English standards
- AP-GfK Poll: Americans detest Congress, sticking by Obama in tough times ahead of elections
- Report: Governors, state school leaders team up on new academic standards
- First lady to deliver commencement addresses at 2 colleges, 1 high school this spring
- Administration official: Obama wants a former Army senior intelligence officer to lead TSA
- Administration official: Obama to nominate former Army intelligence officer to lead TSA
- Senior Democrat says Pentagon should consider barring Blackwater from $1B deal
- Survey: American teachers more interested in school reform and student achievement than raises
- Obama takes on high school dropout crisis, proposing $900 M in return for drastic changes
- Obama to announce steps Monday to reduce school dropout rate
- Obama strengthens White House initiative on historically black colleges
- Obama to sign order supporting mission of historically black colleges
- Few people survive 5 heart attacks; Cheney illustrates peril and progress in heart disease
- Sssh, sleeping is helping the baby learn
- Music helps kids process speech more accurately
- Using federal money as leverage, Obama hopes to prod states to raise academic standards
- Obama says US still lags others in math and science skills, urges states to do better
- Obama offers plan to limit health insurance rate hikes, speaks to governors about education
- Parents influence child’s pursuit of math, medicine
- Obama calls on govs to raise school standards to keep US students competitive
- Obama offers proposals to help states prepare students for college, careers
- US can’t wait because India is not waiting: Obama
- Obama kicks off education competition, will speak at winning school’s graduation
- First lady Michelle Obama gives pep talk to essay contest winners visiting US from England
- Obama on education: Regardless of personal wealth, everyone can turn off TV set on weeknights
- Tough math: Public schools face severe cash crunch as federal stimulus money runs out
- Obama to deliver commencement addresses at University of Michigan, Hampton University in Va.
- Obama to deliver commencement addresses at University of Michigan, Hampton University
- Official: Problems at Air Force nuclear weapons site in New Mexico were administrative
- After rocky start, VA more smoothly processing new GI Bill claims for Iraq, Afghanistan vets
- Arizona coach Sean Miller confirms Wildcats will sanction themselves
- Wash. judge rules state failing constitutional duty to fully fund basic education
- DC judge dismisses lawsuit by members of oldest black sorority who sought leader’s removal
- Report: University fundraising down nearly 12 percent in 2009, the biggest drop in 30 years
- HEALTHBEAT: Drugs tested to improve learning in Fragile X syndrome, may give autism hints
- Lawmakers, universities balance budgets with significant tuition hikes
- Obama seeks more funds for science, maths education
- Obama sends multi-trillion-dollar spending plan to Congress with record $1.56T deficit in 2010
- An agency-by-agency look at Obama’s budget request for fiscal 2011
- Hoops fan Obama puts on headset, does college basketball commentary; future career option?
- President Obama attends big college basketball matchup _ top 10 teams Georgetown and Duke
- President heading out to see big college basketball matchup _ top teams Georgetown and Duke
- Indian linguist to develop South Asian language course in US
- Obama calls for more school reform, tax breaks for college
- US varsity to exhibit M.F. Husain’s early masterpieces
- Obama to seek up to $4 billion in new education spending
- Study: Female teachers with math anxiety may spread it to the little girls in their classrooms
- Obama announces economic aid for struggling middle class families
- Online quizzes not really helping students
- Dan Fitzgerald, architect of Gonzaga’s college basketball rise, dies at age 67
- Dan Fitzgerald, architect of Gonzaga’s college basketball rise, dies suddently at 67
- Study: Arts industry faces big slump, more competition for money and audiences in last decade
- Study: Arts industry’s boom decade now faces big slump, more competition for audiences, money
- Tax credits, deductions help parents, students pay the growing cost of higher education
- Obama to highlight Race to the Top program during visit to Northern Virginia elementary school
- Obama to ask Congress for additional $1.35 billion next year for education reform program
- US Navy en route to Haiti seaport to assess damage, help build temporary pier facilities
- Consumers squeezed as even modest inflation exceeds stagnant pay, raising concern for rebound
- Wash. gov’s staff shares her plan for school reform to help state compete for federal dollars
- Study finds 1 in 4 female teens engaged in some sort of violent act at school or work
- Jawaharlal Nehru University head to attend meet at Yale
- Supreme Court declines new student speech case in challenge to Texas school dress code
- Economy 101: Work force dropouts keep a lid on the unemployment rate, for now
- Indian-American teacher gets mentoring award from Obama
- Obama announces training initiative for math, science teachers to help boost nation’s standing
- Obama to announce training initiative for math, science teachers
- Girls are just as good as boys in mathematics
- Obama to honor teachers for excellence in math and science at White House event Wednesday
- Across the nation, state budget picture looks bleaker than ever as lawmakers return to work
