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Anthonia Akitunde

Thinking About Going Back To School? Read This First

HuffingtonPost.com | Anthonia Akitunde | Posted 08.17.2012 | Fifty
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Geraldine Johnson, 64, is unemployed after paying $60,000 for a master's degree. She lives on $1,034 in Social Security and in December will begin paying $400 of that toward her student loans.

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Drop Outs

Nuvia Martinez | Posted 05.26.2012 | Good News
Read More: Story Project, High School Drop Outs, Drop Out Crisis, Drop Out, Good News News
Nuvia Martinez

Something that really made a difference in my life was having the support from my teacher and mentors at Central High School. Maybe if more young people had supportive adults around them then they wouldn't give up so easily.

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Teaching In The Young Lions' Lair

Turnstyle | Posted 01.09.2012 | Home
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Turnstyle

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U.S. No Longer Leader of the Free World

John H. Jackson | Posted 08.28.2011 | Home
Read More: Graduation, Education, Poverty, National Center on Education and the Economy, Opportunity, Shanghai, Graduation Rates, Incarceration Rates, Ontario, Finland, Drop Out, Education Week, Japan, International, Schott Foundation, Home News
John H. Jackson

America was once thought of as the leader of the free world. Over the next 30 years, U.S. cities and states probably will be defined by what happens with the bottom two-thirds of citizens rather than the top one-third.

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Game-Based Learning: Hype Vs. Reality

Alan Gershenfeld | Posted 06.03.2011 | Home
Read More: Games, Obama, 21st Century Skills, Learning, Drop-Out, Techboston, Education Technology, Home News
Alan Gershenfeld

I believe that computer and video games have the potential to make significant learning impact. But I also believe that this potential is currently not being realized -- at least not at a meaningful scale.

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Students Sound Off: High Schooler Says Graduation Day Starts With Great Teachers

The Huffington Post | Erin Rheinheimer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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"Students Sound Off," is an ongoing student blogger contest aimed at providing students a loud and clear voice in the education debate presented by Hu...

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Emotionally Disturbed Inner City Students

Dr. Ronald Ricker and Dr. Venus Nicolino | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Behavioral Problems, Welfare, Drug Addiction, Inner City, Mental Health, Police, Children, School Problems, Adolescents, Pregnancy, Funding, Gangs, Family Values, Disadvantaged, Drop-Out, Emotional Problems, Teachers, Donations, Schools, Arrest, Impact News
Dr. Ronald Ricker and Dr. Venus Nicolino

The problems facing today's inner city students, particularly those with behavioral and emotional problems, are innumerable and daunting. The Linden Center is an example of a program that attempts to deal with these problems.

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Former Clinton-Gore Campaign Chair: "This Race Is Over, Over."

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Quit, West Virginia, Electibility, Democratic Primary, Superdelegates, Jack Johnson, Oregon, Roy Romer, Electability, Colorado, Hillary Clinton, Drop Out, Barack Obama, Home News
M.S. Bellows, Jr.

In Roy Romer's endorsement of Obama, it came down to the map and the math. "It is different kind of winning possibility that Senator Obama was presenting to the party.... This nation is evolving."

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