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President Obama just released his proposed 2014 budget, which includes a push for universal preschool for low- and middle-income four year olds, fulfilling a promise he made in his recent State of the Union message.

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In this lesson, students will consider whether the nation’s system for addressing crime is effective and consistent with its Constitutional ideals of equality under the law.    

President Obama today unveiled his 2014 budget proposal, and here is what his request for the Education Department looks like, according to my colleague Lyndsey Layton:

The president wants to boost discretionary spending for the Department of Education by 4.6 percent, to $71.2 billion. That's in addition to $14.5 billion the federal government gives to states to help educate poor children and another $11.6 billion sent to states to pay for the schooling for disabled students.

Obama is proposing several new initiatives aimed at expanding pre-school to all low and moderate income four-year-olds, improving high school and streamlining federal programs that support education in science, technology, engineering and math. He wants to expand on the competitive grants that have become a signature of his education policy, this time creating a college version of Race to the Top, which would award $ 1 billion in competitive grants to states that make college more affordable.

The budget calls for $300 million for a new program that would reward high schools that develop partnerships with employers and local colleges and redesign secondary education so that high school students are learning skills needed for careers and college.

In his State of the Union address, the president highlighted an example of this kind of re-engineered high school, P-TECH in New York City. A partnership between IBM, the City University of New York and the public school system, P-TECH is the nation's first 9-14 school, where students can earn both a high school diploma and an associate degree. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) plans to open 10 more high schools in his state modeled after P-TECH.

The president wants to consolidate 90 programs that exist among 11 different federal agencies that are aimed at improving STEM education into one initiative managed by the Department of Education with help from the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Insitution.

The new, streamlined $180 million program would focus on four areas: K-12 instruction, undergraduate education, graduate fellowships and less formal educational activities that take place outside classrooms.

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The Johns Hopkins University Student Government Association’s judiciary arm has overturned a March decision by the student-run senate to deny “official group status” to Voice for Life, an antiabortion advocacy and awareness group.

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I recently wrote a post about a Tennessee state senator who has advanced legislation that would cut welfare payments to families whose kids get really bad report cards and test scores.

The senator is Stacey Campfield, a Republican, who was quoted in the Knoxville News Sentinel as saying this was a great way to "break the cycle of poverty."

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Bryan Stromer, a student at the New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies, is excited to attend Vanderbilt University after experiencing Southern hospitality for the first time during a campus visit.    

AppleTree strives to meld curriculum, professional development, and student monitoring at seven District of Columbia charter schools, fueled by $5 million in federal Investing in Innovation aid.

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How I found Thoreau — and avoided a life of debt-ridden desperation — by living in my van as a graduate student at Duke University.    

Marie Bigham, a veteran college counselor, and Mark Kantrowitz, an expert on paying for college, answer select reader questions about where to enroll. Part 3.    

Why do you think it is important for Syria to protect its ancient sites and ruins?    

Can you calculate the approximate ratio of a recent cyberattack’s data stream speed to the typical home cable Internet connection’s upload speed?    

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