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Temecula-based Context Schools Offers New Answers to the Education Dilemma

June 21, 2011by Staff 2 Comments

By Kerri S. Mabee School is out for thousands of Southwest Riverside students, but that doesn’t mean that parents aren’t already thinking ahead to the fall. That’s when roughly 245 […]

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Perry’s Education Agenda: Too Small for Texas?

June 21, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By Joy Pullman Chester Finn is right to bring up doubts about nationalizing Texas’s education policies, but unfortunately for the wrong reasons. Finn’s worry about national standards should apply more […]

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Texas Voters Want More Efficiency and Less Spending in Higher Ed

June 21, 2011by Staff 7 Comments

Voters want cost control for higher education By William Lutz The public wants more efficiency and less spending in higher education. “Texas voters want more value and higher quality teaching for […]

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AgCenter Preparing Rural Residents for Broadband Internet

June 21, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

BATON ROUGE, La., June 20 — The Louisiana State University Ag Center issued the following news release: High-speed Internet connections are on the way to rural areas of Louisiana, and […]

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Higher Education and Gold

June 21, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

MANY thanks to the commenters on yesterday’s post who suggested that the cost of higher education might be a good store of value against which to measure the progress of […]

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Are Big Donors Inspired by Politics or Ideology

June 21, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

Where Does the $ Go? By Charlotte Allen From reading news stories about multimillion-dollar gifts to universities, it’s easy to get the impression that the donors are mostly rich people with […]

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10 Things Fund-Raisers Won’t Say

June 21, 2011by Staff 6 Comments

By JAMI MAKAN 1. “We’re getting desperate.” Times are tough for fund-raisers and the nonprofits they serve. For decades American individuals and institutions have increased their annual donating by an […]

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ACT’s Validity Questioned

June 21, 2011by Staff 3 Comments

A new study has found that two of the four main parts of the ACT — science and reading — have “little or no” ability to help colleges predict whether […]

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Pencils Down. Time to See if You’re Right For the Job

June 21, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By AUGUSTA DWYER Every year, air transport services operator NAV Canada receives a daunting number of online applications for one the world’s most demanding jobs: air traffic controller. The only […]

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Are Standardized Tests Helping our Kids Learn?

June 21, 2011by Staff Leave a comment

By Teresa Snow With competition from around the world, there’s more pressure on students in the US to achieve in the classroom. But can that success be measured by standardized […]

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Academics Targeted for Men of Color

June 21, 2011by Staff 1 Comment

By James Vaznis The College Board unveiled an initiative at a forum at Harvard University yesterday to improve the academic achievement of young men of color, saying that bolstering their […]

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Making Headlines Since The ’70s: Is College Worth It?

June 21, 2011by Staff 6 Comments

Americans are counting their pennies these days, taking a close look at everything from the cost of milk to the cost of their mortgages. A college education is one investment […]

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Surging College Costs Price Out Middle Class

June 21, 2011by Staff 10 Comments

What do you get when college costs skyrocket but incomes barely budge? Yet another blow to the middle class. “As the out-of-pocket costs of a college education go up faster […]

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UT – Buying Champagne on a Beer Budget

June 21, 2011by Staff 8 Comments

After receiving several extremely defensive emails from UT President William Powers Jr., I wanted to learn more about the higher education debate that has obviously struck a nerve and was […]

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Seminar Addresses College Costs

June 21, 2011by Staff 5 Comments

A seminar entitled “How to Pay for College” was hosted recently by The Bank of New Canaan, featuring a presentation by financial adviser Charles Wareham of LPL Financial of Hartford. […]

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