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GOP redistricting, money give N.C. Rep. Ellmers edge in race

Democrat Steve Wilkins, running in a tough congressional race against Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers, says his 22 years of military service – which include a key role in planning the invasion of Iraq – show the spirit of public service Washington needs to break the partisan logjam. | 11/02/12 07:28:56 By - Renee Schoof

Lower costs lure U.S. college students to Canada, UK

More American teenagers are thinking about picking up a passport and heading abroad for their college years as a way of attending a top-rated school at a lower cost, Canadian and British college recruiters say. | 10/30/12 17:27:17 By - By Renee Schoof

Penn State climate scientist files defamation suit

Penn State University scientist Michael Mann, whose work showed that Earth’s temperatures have risen along with increased fossil fuel use, announced Tuesday he had filed a lawsuit against the conservative National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute for defamation, complaining that they falsely accused him of academic fraud and compared him to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky. | 10/23/12 19:23:54 By - By Renee Schoof

Student loan borrowers complain that private lenders offer little help

College students who took out private student loans before the recession hit are telling the government they’re getting a runaround from lenders as they struggle to pay them back. | 10/16/12 00:00:00 By - By Renee Schoof

Colleges need to better police their sports programs, reports say

On the same day that former Penn State football coach and convicted child abuser Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to 30 years in prison, a new report on Tuesday urged college governing officials to exercise stronger oversight over their institutions’ sports programs. | 10/09/12 18:53:54 By - By Renee Schoof

Supreme Court and colleges will clash over affirmative action

At South Carolina’s Clemson University, ensuring racial diversity in enrollment has a special resonance because of the region’s history of segregation and discrimination. | 10/09/12 15:04:57 By - By Renee Schoof

College ‘shopping sheet’ aims to make comparing costs easier

When excited students tear into college acceptance packets next spring, many will find something new inside: information that tries to make it easier to understand the costs. | 10/03/12 17:40:00 By - By Renee Schoof

After nearly a century, Weekly Reader is absent from classroom

The election of presidents, the invention of television, the exploration of space. For nearly a century, the Weekly Reader explained it all to generations of elementary school readers, from the one-room schoolhouse to the tech-savvy classroom. But last month, for the first time in 84 years, it disappeared. | 10/03/12 13:50:23 By - By Renee Schoof

Romney, Obama have competing ideas on how to bring school quality up, college tuition down

Should money for federal student grants for college be cut back? | 09/25/12 19:06:05 By - By Renee Schoof

Study: No Child law loophole can mean fewer dollars for poor schools

Across the country, African American and Latino students are being shortchanged in state and local spending on schools because of a loophole in federal law, according to a study that crunched new data from the Department of Education. | 08/23/12 19:09:18 By - By Renee Schoof

Sizzling summer has worsened drought conditions

What can make a bad drought even worse? A sizzling summer, the likes of which the lower 48 states haven’t seen since record-keeping started in 1895. | 08/14/12 18:59:20 By - By Renee Schoof

Federal spending on clean energy falls short on jobs, but wind and solar advance

What has America gotten so far from President Barack Obama’s spending on clean energy, and has it been worth the cost? | 08/13/12 00:00:00 By - By Renee Schoof

Scientists stake out bat colonies to track a killer: White nose syndrome

As green cricket frogs screeched and the sun set, researcher Kate Langwig and a small band of fellow scientists set a trap of black nets to nab bats and inspect them as part of a scientific quest to understand a spreading disease that’s killed these small mammals by the millions. | 07/11/12 13:07:12 By - By Renee Schoof

Federal court panel upholds EPA rules aimed at global warming

A federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency had acted properly when it set the nation’s first limits on greenhouse gases. | 06/26/12 18:30:30 By - By Renee Schoof

Oil exploration in Alaskan Arctic brings lots of noise to whales’ domain

As the Arctic Ocean’s ice cover declines in summer and oil companies move in with ships, drilling equipment and seismic surveys, what used to be a mostly very quiet home for whales and other marine animals is getting a lot louder. | 06/26/12 16:47:07 By - Renee Schoof

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