Education

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Committee approves 32% increase to UC student fees

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Nov. 18, 2009 | Adolfo Guzman-Lopez | KPCC | 1 comment

Police arrested 14 protesters at a University of California Regents finance committee meeting at UCLA today.

Gates Foundation gives $335M for teacher quality

Nov. 19, 2009 | Donna Gordon Blankinship | AP | 0 comments

Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality - from paying new teachers to spend another year practicing before getting their own class to letting student test scores affect teacher pay. In exchange, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is handing them the biggest pile of cash it has spent on education reform in about a decade. The Gates Foundation was created in 2000 by the Microsoft chairman and his wife.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's isolated U.S. college days

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Nov. 18, 2009 | Dina Temple-Raston | NPR | 0 comments

A professor and a classmate recall the professed Sept. 11 mastermind's years in North Carolina.