Health Care and Student Loan Programs Collide

Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts

By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.

Proposed changes to the state’s social studies curriculum would portray conservatives in a more positive light.

Obama’s Student Loan Overhaul Endangered

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

House Democrats were desperately trying to prevent an ambitious overhaul of student loan programs from becoming a casualty of the health care battle.

Kansas City to Close Nearly Half Its Schools

By SUSAN SAULNY

The Board of Education in Kansas City, Mo., accepted a sweeping and contentious plan to shrink its school system in the face of dwindling enrollment, budget cuts and a $50 million deficit.

Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools

By SAM DILLON

The new standards, which experts said could well be adopted by a majority of states, would replace the nation’s checkerboard of locally written standards.

Pressed by Charters, Public Schools Try Marketing

By JENNIFER MEDINA

Principals in Harlem are using firms to help lure students with Web sites, brochures and open houses.

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Many Nations Passing U.S. in Education, Expert Says

By SAM DILLON

A Senate panel learned that more students in more countries graduate from high school and college and score higher on achievement tests than students in the United States.

Another Rise in City Pupils Graduating in Four Years

By JENNIFER MEDINA

For the fifth consecutive year, the rate of students finishing on time increased, hitting 59 percent.

After Victory Over Disney, Group Loses Its Lease

By TAMAR LEWIN

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood was evicted after pressuring the Walt Disney Company into offering refunds to buyers of its Baby Einstein videos.

Officials Step Up Enforcement of Rights Laws in Education

By SAM DILLON

Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to say an office “has not been as vigilant as it should have been” on discrimination.

College Acts to Disregard Fiscal Need in Admissions

By JACQUES STEINBERG

As some schools favor applicants who do not require financial aid, Hamilton College has decided to swim against that tide.