Links for 4/30/10

Doug Lederman

Colleges, universities and other academic organizations received just shy of $2 billion in grants directed to them by individual members of Congress in the 2010 fiscal year…

The leading recipients of earmarks in academe resided, not surprisingly, in states represented by some of the most powerful people in Congress…

CATHERINE RAMPELL

More than 70 percent of the members of the high school graduating class of 2009 were enrolled in college last October. That is the highest portion on record, which goes back to 1959…

Lexington

some school districts have bureaucrats but no schools.

Andrea Fuller

Indiana's community-college system appears to be the first in the nation to try an expedited path to an associate degree, one that would move students through in about one-third of the time it now takes an average community-college student to earn a two-year degree…

will enroll only students who have a good chance of succeeding…