For-profit colleges accused of pumping up job stats, replacing dropouts with new recruits

For-profit colleges hit again in Senate hearings

A career adviser at a large for-profit college, testifying Thursday before a Senate committee, said her employer used “tricks and sleight of hand” to exaggerate job placement statistics given to prospective students.
The latest in a series of hearings scrutinizing for-profit higher education also produced the most intense partisan finger-pointing … Read more >>>.

Facebook’s founder remains all but unknown, despite creating world where personal is public

Facebook founder’s story no longer his alone

The Harvard dormitory where Facebook was born is a red brick and ivy-draped campus castle that, beyond just being a place to sleep and study, has long prided itself as a community of the best and the brightest.
But Kirkland House – where a curly-haired 19-year-old prodigy named Mark Zuckerberg … Read more >>.

2 Metro buses collide in rainy weather in Maryland outside DC; 26 people suffer minor injuries

26 hurt as 2 Metro buses collide in DC suburb

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Authorities say 26 people including high school students were hurt after a Metro bus rear-ended another bus from the Washington-area transit system in pouring rain in a Maryland suburb.
The Thursday morning accident comes a day after a tour bus carrying DC sightseers … Original source on Gaea Times at : 2 Metro buses collide in rainy weather in Maryland outside DC; 26 people suffer minor injuries.

2 Metro buses collide in rainy weather in Maryland outside DC; 17 people suffer minor injuries

17 hurt as 2 Metro buses collide in DC suburb

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Authorities say 17 people are hurt after a Metro bus rear-ended another bus from the Washington-area transit system in a Maryland suburb.
The Thursday morning accident comes a day after a tour bus carrying DC sightseers plunged off a highway in another Maryland …. Original source  : 2 Metro buses collide in rainy weather in Maryland outside DC; 17 people suffer minor injuries.

Break for Games will not affect syllabus, say schools

NEW DELHI – The close of schools in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) during the Commonwealth Games (CWG) will not affect the completion of the syllabus as alternative plans have been made to deal with the break, school authorities said Thursday.

Delhi government officials had asked schools to extend their autumn … Read more : Break for Games will not affect syllabus, say schools.