Will the student aid bill help with your college costs?
One provision in the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act would eliminate subsidies to private lenders for offering federally guaranteed student loans. This would save the government $61 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Those savings would fund the other provisions of the bill. Here’s a rundown of key components in the legislation: • Bigger grants. Maximum federal Pell Grants for low- and middle-income students would increase to $5,550 in 2010 and $5,975 in 2017. Also, the grants would be tied to the cost of living from 2013 to 2017 – rising at the same rate as tRead ahead
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Being a Leftie: Help or Hindrance?
Antony Clark, the Headmaster of Malvern College, is right-handed. But for some years now he has been reflecting on the link between left-handedness and creativity since watching a friend, Dale Elliott — a South African oil and watercolour artist — at work at his easel. Creativity such as Elliott’s and that of other lefties, Clark believes, may be spurred as left-handers are forced to find their own, innovative ways to succeed in a right-handed world. He points to a string of prominent left-handers from history, the arts and sport: Alexander the Great (although evidence here is limited), Julius Caesar, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton, Beethoven, Mahatma Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin, Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey, Martina Navratilova, Brian Lara and Pelé. “When I see students writing, sometimes with difficulty — and many left-handers have difficulty with script — one imagines that they write less and therefore perhaps achieve lower grades than those who write more, because thRead ahead
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A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devised a clever way to detect student cheating on homework in his introductory physics course—and found about 50 percent more cheating than students reported in anonymous surveys. And he discovered that frequent cheaters ended up bombing their exams. The professor, David E. Pritchard, led a research team that analyzed student performance in an online homework system called MasteringPhysics.com during four different semesters. The researchers were able to measure the time spent on each question and look for suspicious work patterns. If a student took less than a minute each answering several complex questions and got them all right, for instance, the system flagged that as likely cheating. "Since one minute is insufficient time to read the problem and enter the several answers typically required, we infer that the quick-solver group is copying the answer from somewhere," said the researchers in a paper due out today in the free online journal Read ahead
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When skateboarders attempt tricks, they make a split-second decision about whether to abort the trick or try to land it, based on a mid-air evaluation of the likelihood of success and on the physical costs that failure might bring — such as falling flat on their face. Read ahead
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