Education News | News Date April 21, 2012

Obama hits student loan costs, courts young voters; Republicans strike at his energy policies

WASHINGTON - Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on university campuses next week in states crucial to his re-election.

Obama wooing young voters with student loan focus

Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education as he previews an argument he will make on university campuses next week in states crucial to his re-election.

Obama casts GOP as barrier to low-cost education

Eager to energize young voters, President Barack Obama is depicting Republicans as obstacles to an affordable college education, using his Internet and radio address Saturday to preview an argument he will take on the road next week to university campuses in states crucial to his re-election.

New Orleans was pianist Jon Cleary's education

The pianist arrived in the Big Easy decades ago intending to stay for a short visit. But it lengthened to most of his life up to now, and he has become a well-respected interpreter of the New Orleans sound. He brings that sound to UCLA Live on Saturday.NEW ORLEANS — Pianist Jon Cleary has lived in this city all of his life: Even when he didn't. Long before he saw it. And even when he was in forced exile from it.

"Chimpanzee" presents sanitized jungle

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Chimpanzees eat monkeys. That's one of the big takeaways from "Chimpanzee," the latest in the DisneyNature series of documentaries. We don't get to see this happen in a way that would jeopardize the movie's G rating, of course, but between description (by narrator Tim Allen) and implication, we get the general idea. And while that's certainly educational â€" it's the first thing that's going to come to my mind next time I need to distinguish between the two animals â€" the movie's coyness about portraying that fact of life pinpoints the general problem with "Chimpanzee. ...

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