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  1. insidehighered.com/quicktakes/201… - More students with high SAT scores, more white and Asian students.
  2. insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/2… - Robot tutors and their potential impact on the economics/makeup of the classroom
  3. mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessi… -Front Page - Sunday NYTimes -May 13- A generation hobbled by college debt.
  4. insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/0… community-colleges-reinvent-developmental-math - New approach to remedial math
  5. insidehighered.com/news/2012/05/0… - Experiential Credits - New Expanded Role - Hamburger U. Credits?
  6. seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ opinion/2018143430_brooks06.html - Online Education Tsunami
  7. heraldnet.com/article/201204… -Education replacing housing bubble. Growng pileup of risky private student loans defaults could imperil investments
  8. chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/s… -Harvard's Library Faculty Council,facing subscription crisis, urges faculty/students to “move prestige to open access”
  9. insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/2… -Steady erosion of state/local support..forcing discussion of ideas associated w/privatization among community colleges
  10. californiawatch.org/dailyreport/co… -Community colleges..toward rationing courses,& focusing on students pursuing degrees,certfcts,transfer or career goals
  11. mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/phi… - Community Colleges Crunch time. Tough Choices ahead.
  12. businessinsider.com/education-star… - A Million Ed Startups & No One To Acquire Them: 2Tor, Knewton,Coursekit,Skillshare,General Assembly,Udemy, & more...
  13. chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcam… - Online-Education Start-Up Coursera Teams With Top-Ranked Universities to Offer Free Courses
  14. huffingtonpost.com - Government's New Way of measuring Student Success
  15. insidehighered.com/quicktakes/201… - New Gov Comparison tool for financial aid. Compares up to 3 schools.
  16. latimes.com/news/local/la-… chancellor-20120325,0,6831945.story - Many would-be students turned away
  17. mobile2.wsj.com/device/article…? - Student debt tops $1 trillion, higher than thought and possible obstacle to homebuying
  18. usatoday.com/news/education… - community colleges cut programs. Challenge this decade is deciding whom they will serve and in what ways.
  19. inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/15/opi… - the Civil Rights Data Collection survey of 72,000 schools servng 85% of nation’s students - revealed stark inequities
  20. news.yahoo.com/students-footi… -public colleges getting more than 43% of their revs from student tuition compard to less than 30% a decade ago