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Weber State architecture students design real homes

(Jessica Miller, Ogden Standard-Examiner) -- Five Weber State University freshman are getting an opportunity many architectural graduates would envy: the chance to have a floor plan they created developed into real homes. Nilson Homes paired up with professor Jeremy Farner's basic residential architecture class to give 27 students a challenge: create a home plan intended for...

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From Weber State to the NFL to rising opera star

(Michael C. Lewis, Salt Lake Tribune) - A native of the island of Tonga whose family moved to Salt Lake City when he was a toddler, Pupu’a was an athletic standout at Highland High School and Weber State University. He played so well for the Wildcats during a losing season as a senior — and showed...

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As Colleges Make Courses Available Free Online, Others Cash In (New York Times)

PARIS — A computer in Logan, Utah, holds syllabus details, lecture notes, problem sets and exams from more than 80 Utah State University courses: but this is no secret cheat-sheet site put together by rogue hackers and pirates. Anyone, anywhere, with an Internet connection — from Bill Gates down — can log on and download these materials...

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Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Standards for Education (New York Times)

Culminating a year’s work, a panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents released a set of proposed common academic standards on Wednesday. The standards, posted on the panel’s web site, lay out the panel’s vision of what American public school students should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation

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