Last fall, high-school senior Duane Wilson started getting D’s on assignments in his Advanced Placement history, psychology and literature classes. Like a smoke detector sensing fire, a school computer sounded an alarm.

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Effective health-care reform must meet two objectives: 1) It must secure coverage for all Americans, and 2) it must dramatically lower the cost of health care. Health-care spending has outpaced the rise in all other consumer spending by nearly a factor of three since 1980, increasing to 18% of GDP in 2009 from 9% of GDP. This disturbing trend will not change regardless of who pays these costs — government or the private sector — unless we can find a way to improve the health of our citizens.

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Felecia Fields climbed the steps to the Patrick O’Hearn Elementary School reluctantly, a million questions swirling in her mind. If she chose the O’Hearn for her son, would the children tease him because he has cerebral palsy? Would the teachers ignore him?

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The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a victory to parents of children with disabilities who seek reimbursement for private-school tuition at public expense. School systems warned the decision could drain millions of dollars from tight education budgets.

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They feel like the forgotten ones: Football teams training on hazardous turf, soccer teams practicing on fields without goals, track teams running in school hallways for lack of access to training facilities.

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Some struggled to learn English; others fight alcoholism. Some went to school once every two weeks; others decided even that was too often. They have battled behavioral problems, academic failures, personal tragedies, or substance abuse.

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Harvard University put the brakes on a major campus expansion. Wellesley College froze salaries and laid off employees. Middlebury College cut financial aid for international students. But one private college is quietly skirting the crunch in higher education: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in Manhattan’s East Village.

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India’s new minister in charge of higher education said he will push legislation to let foreign universities establish independent institutions in the country, potentially opening a huge market that schools from the U.S. and elsewhere have been clamoring to enter for years.

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Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright is offering to donate her papers to Wellesley College, inspiring the institution to create an international studies school in her honor to train a new generation of women for the world stage.

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CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster book publishing arm has struck a deal to sell nearly 5,000 digital e-books titles on Scribd Inc., a Web site that allows people to post and read documents online.

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