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School safety: How secure are our schools?
Source: katu.com Posted By: Len WIS...4008 days ago
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It was early April when Marti Long says she stopped by Lake Oswego Junior High School unannounced to check out the facility she had booked for a community function. "I went down there looking....
America’s staggering education gap
Source: google.com Posted By: Len WIS...4008 days ago
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You want my advice, you should pour a tall cup-a-Joe and settle in to read this essay by Sean Reardon in this AMs NYT on education and wealth. He covers a lot of ground, but the theme that resonated....
Letters: Bring back bilingual education
Source: L. A. Times Posted By: Len WIS...4008 days ago
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The article does not mention two approaches to help those acquiring English, both with substantial research support. One is bilingual education, dismantled by Proposition 227 more than a decade....
Does the College Major Matter? Not Really
Source: thechoice.blogs Posted By: Bailey COS...4009 days ago
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This week, the last of the high school seniors who have yet to make up their minds about where they’re going to college in the fall, will finally put their deposit check in the mail and end the....
Obama’s big second-term education problem
Source: Washington Post Posted By: Jason BRI...4009 days ago
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President Obama has a big problem in his second term in terms of education policy: his first term. Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, pushed hard in their first term to have a....
Source: Chicago Tribune Posted By: Jason BRI...4012 days ago
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Can you do it? Should you do it? As that college acceptance letter compels you to say "yes" or "no" around May 1, run through a few last considerations as you weigh one of the largest financial....
The purpose of higher education
Source: minnesota.publi Posted By: Ronny FLI...4012 days ago
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This week on the Friday Roundtable, our panelists will discuss the purpose of higher education. Given the costs of college tuition, the skills mismatch that many employers are reporting and the....
How Online Education Saves Everyone Money
Source: Yahoo News Posted By: Len WIS...4012 days ago
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Three times a week, 15 weeks a semester, you can expect to see Sandra DeSousa teaching a room of 150 to 250 students the math they should have learned in high school. The adjunct professor at....
The Trans-Atlantic College Search
Source: rendezvous.blog Posted By: Cat BEC...4013 days ago
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At least I didn’t have to whack anybody. When I told a cousin that I was taking my daughter to look at U.S. colleges this spring she sent me a DVD of “The Sopranos” episode in which Tony,....
Education Does Not Equal Intelligence
Source: rushlimbaugh.co Posted By: Cat BEC...4013 days ago
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RUSH: Now, listen to the latest explanation. This was on Fox a little while ago. Jenna Lee, the cohost on Fox, was speaking with an author by the name of Anne Speckhard, who has written something....
'Nation at Risk' warnings about shortcomings in US education 30 years ago still resonate today
Source: Yahoo News Posted By: Cat BEC...4014 days ago
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U.S. students are falling behind their international rivals. Young people aren't adept at new technology. America's economy will suffer if schools don't step up their game. "A Nation at Risk,"....
When College Admissions Essays Go Viral
Source: theatlanticwire Posted By: Maxcy JON...4014 days ago
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Today the Ivy League gossip blog IvyGate unveiled a public Google Drive folder in which members of Columbia University's Class of 2017 had saved the personal essay each had included with their....
Choosing a Scholarship Over a College Name Brand
Source: parenting.blogs Posted By: Maxcy JON...4014 days ago
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A recent Wealth Matters column (“Measuring College Prestige vs. Cost of Enrollment”) described an unemployed father whose daughter was offered a full scholarship to college. Yet he planned to....
'Nation at Risk' warnings about shortcomings in US education 30 years ago still resonate today
Source: startribune.com Posted By: Maxcy JON...4014 days ago
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U.S. students are falling behind their international rivals. Young people aren't adept at new technology. America's economy will suffer if schools don't step up their game. "A Nation at Risk,"....
How private money is driving public education policy
Source: Washington Post Posted By: Erin HER...4014 days ago
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In this era of school reform, private foundations and wealthy philanthropists have used their money to play a big role in helping to shape public education state and federal policy. Here’s an....
Leaders must get straight on education goals
Source: dispatch.com Posted By: Erin HER...4015 days ago
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As I follow the ongoing coverage of standardized-test scandals in our nation’s schools, I am struck by those covering and opining about these situations demonstrating not the least bit of understanding....
Advice for Smart Students on Succeeding in College
Source: thechoice.blogs Posted By: Erin HER...4016 days ago
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In my work, I’ve found there to be an enormous, though perfectly absurd, pressure for smart teenagers to appear smart, autonomous and academically self-sufficient at all times. So often, the....
Help on the road to higher education
Source: articles.latime Posted By: Erin HER...4016 days ago
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Maria Martinez's kitten heels clicked as she trailed behind a recent campus tour at UC Irvine. Except for those short stiletto heels, Martinez might not have stood out from thousands of other....
Source: insidehighered. Posted By: Billy TAM...4016 days ago
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Earlier this year Capella University and the new College for America began enrolling hundreds of students in academic programs without courses, teaching professors, grades, deadlines or credit....
College acceptances: Yes, you're admitted but not until January
Source: ajc.com Posted By: Billy TAM...4020 days ago
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The first time I encountered delayed admission to college was a few years ago when a friend's daughter was admitted to a prestigious college with a proviso: She could not start until the second....
