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Digital Age Lets Schools Track Students' Whereabouts

From K through college, there's no hiding

(Newser) - From kindergarten to college, students these days are usually not far from the eyes—prying or protective, depending on your view—of administrators. Two cases in point:
  • The Chicago Tribune reports on districts keeping track of young students on school buses through a combination of GPS technology and ID cards.
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Finally, Another College-Only Social Network

No more friend requests from Grandpa

(Newser) - If you’re one of those people who was mortified to receive your mom’s Facebook friend request, this should make you happy: CollegeOnly is here, and—like Facebook’s original incarnation—you actually need to be a college student to join the social networking site. Its creator realized that...

Fake 'Obama Mom' Ads Dupe Students
Fake 'Obama Mom' Ads
Dupe Students
investigation

Fake 'Obama Mom' Ads Dupe Students

They're similar to ploys used to hawk subprime loans

(Newser) - Pro Publica sheds light on a particularly scummy practice all the rage on the Internet designed to sucker low-income single mothers: So-called "Obama mom" ads are springing up all over promising mothers that the president wants them to return to school so badly he's created special federal loans...

Let's Rethink How We Teach English
 Let's Rethink How 
 We Teach English 
opinion

Let's Rethink How We Teach English

Kids can't write, and it's getting worse

(Newser) - Take it from a first-year college instructor: The writing skills of young adults are a joke. "They have either forgotten the rules of writing, or they never learned them in the first place," writes Kara Miller of Babson College. And while the media focuses on the need for...

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