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Education and Scholarships |
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| Higher Education Costs Up More Than Inflation Yet Again |
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Tuition and fees at private U.S. colleges and universities for the 2009-2010 school year will rise an average 4.3 percent, the lowest percentage increase in at least 37 years, according to a survey.
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| Real education reform: Start with a teardown |
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JOHN Chubb's recent op-ed "21st-century School Reform" failed to mention that while city schools have improved overall in standardized test scores, 51 percent of 11th-graders still tested below basic proficiency in math and 41 percent were below in reading .
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| Nixon endorses common core of state educational standards |
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Gov. Jay Nixon has signed the first part of a memorandum developing a common core of educational standards in English and math at the K-12 level, uniting Missouri with the 46 other states already on board with such standards.
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| Pueblo Charter Schools Agree To Audit Among Allegations |
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Colorado education officials have agreed to audit a Pueblo-based network of charter schools amid allegations of cheating on standardized tests and questions about salaries paid to top administrators.
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| What's Wrong With the American Public Educational System? -- New Book ... |
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America's expenditure in providing free quality education is steadily rising - while the quality of public-school education appears to deteriorate at an alarming pace.
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| More evidence points to Arguello death a suicide |
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Investigators have released new evidence that points to suicide in the death of former boxing champion and Managua mayor Alexis Arguello.
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| VOICES: Free Minds Free People promotes youth education for liberation |
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By Melissa M. Forbis, Guest Contributor "There is no more apt theme for this conference at this fear-driven moment in political history." With those words, journalist and scholar Charles E. Cobb Jr.
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| Man charged in North Myrtle Beach is registered sex offender |
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A 35-year-old man charged after a 14-year-old girl reported an abduction and sexual assault in North Myrtle Beach is registered as a sex offender in North Carolina and spent 11 years in jail after pleading guilty to robbing and raping a woman in 1996.
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