ETS Reveals Reasons Behind Voiding AP exams for High School in California

A south Orange County (California) high school is making plans to retest students for their AP exams held last May. after a litany of testing irregularities was revealed by the Education Testing Service, which led to the voiding of almost 400 students' results. Apparently, many of the students were allowed to text friends, leave the testing area, and consult study aids in what has shaped up to be one of the biggest shake-ups in the history of the AP test.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-me-trabuco24-2008jul24,0,6014463.story?track=rss

New York State Looking to Lend

Before Governor Eliot Spitzer left office, his commission to assess the state's public colleges and universities, appointed back in May of 2007, agreed that New York should join 40 other states who offer a low-cost student loan program. Now Spitzer's successor, Gov. David A. Paterson, is taking up the charge and asked the Legislature on Monday to create such a program.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/nyregion/22loan.html?ref=education

Online Textbook Gain Support

Food prices aren't the only things spiking upwards - textbooks are becoming more and more expensive, pushing colleges to turn to more affordable options: "open textbooks." These are free textbooks that are licensed to allow users to download, customize, and print any part of the text.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-07-09-open-textbooks_N.htm

Anxiety with Graduation

A 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision entitled illegal immigrants to education from kindergarten to 12th grade, but access to higher education has not been guaranteed. Though many state universities have encouraged undocumented college students to pursue a higher education, their numbers still remain low. Even if many were to attend, a degree does nothing to alter their illegal status - graduating may not lead to the same opportunities as their classmates.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-me-ucla8-2008jul08,0,6025873.story

Six States Create Own Plan for School Fixes

The No Child Left Behind law, a signature education law of the Bush administration, softened just a bit for six states: Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, and Ohio. These states are getting the OK to write their own remedies for failing schools; they won this freedom out of 17 that applied for it.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080701/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/education_law_changes