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Swarthmore and Occidental Colleges joined the list of elite institutions accused of mistreating victims of sexual assault and harassment, and more accusations may be forthcoming.    

Chancellor Kaya Henderson and members of the D.C. Council’s education committee agreed Thursday that no one knows for sure whether D.C. schools’ 2008 test scores were inflated because of cheating.

It’s a question that has never been fully investigated, they said at a hearing devoted to examining test security in the city’s schools. It is also a question that appears unlikely to be resolved now.

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As the University of Texas System faces accusations of micromanaging its flagship university, its chancellor said his strategic plan, widely praised after its 2011 introduction, remained on track.    

CHARLOTTESVILLE — The University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted Thursday to increase tuition for in-state undergraduates by 3.8 percent and for out-of-state students by 4.8 percent for the upcoming school year, meaning Virginians will pay about $450 more and out-of-state students will pay roughly $1,825 more at the state’s flagship public school.

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Add nonfiction to your summer reading list by inviting teenagers, ages 13 to 19, to participate in our contest each week this summer from June 14 to Aug. 16. We’ll choose a new winner each week.    

More than half of Maryland’s black students attend schools where the vast majority of students are nonwhite and poor, according to a report released Thursday that documents intensifying segregation patterns in the state’s public schools over two decades.

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I decided not to write about my unrivaled colleague Jay Mathews's just-published super-famous High School Challenge Index for 2013.

First, I suppose, I should tell you what it is I am not writing about.

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US - PA - Philadelphia, Temple University. The Department of Anthropology invites applications for one full-time, nine-month, Visiting Assistant Professorship (Teaching/Instructional) for the 2013-2014 academic year. This

In advance of Earth Day on Monday, this week’s Poetry Pairing matches “Nomad Exquisite” by Wallace Stevens with the City Room blog post, “A Career Bringing Natural History to Life” by James Barron.    

So much for making children and adults in schools safer.

As anybody following the news knows by now, the Senate on Wednesday rejected a watered-down compromise of a watered-down version of legislation that would have banned some military-style assault rifles, limited the size of ammunition magazines and expanded background checks on most gun sales-- measures that were aimed at keeping weapons out of the hands of criminals.

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