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Obama's fight against the 'dropout crisis'

Saying that nearly a third of high school students don't graduate and that 12 percent of schools produce about half the country's dropouts, the president said on Monday he was adding $900 million to his fiscal 2011 budget request to target those schools.

More on hard times at colleges

Donations to the country's colleges and universities dropped 12 percent last year, according to a survey by the Council for Aid to Education.

The decline was the biggest in the history of the survey, CAE said.

Sex education

Abstinence-only programs for pre-teens are more successful in delaying sexual activity than alternative strategies, according to a study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Paying for college

Many top U.S. public universities are giving millions of dollars in financial aid to students from relatively wealthy families instead of to young peole who need it more — resulting in schools less diverse than elite private schools, according to a report from the Education Trust.

Safe schools czar

Fifty-three House Republicans want President Obama to fire Kevin Jennings, saying he wants to promote a "homosexual agenda" and accusing him of "ignoring the sexual abuse of a child" in 1988, when Jennings was a teacher. Fox News