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Looking to Entrepreneurship Education During the Economic Crisis

Steve Mariotti | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Education, US Education, No Child Left Behind, High School, Entrepreneurship, Public Education, Entrepreneur, NFTE, Business News
Steve Mariotti

Many high schools have job placement programs to help their students, but rarely do we see the possibility of entrepreneurship presented as an option.

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On Education, the Obama Administration Veers Off Course

Gerald Bracey | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Education, Obama, Statistics, Duncan, Assumptions, Data, Misinterpretation, US Education, Obama Education, Naep, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

How can the Obama administration get it right in education when its data are all wrong and its assumptions about its faulty data are flawed?

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Don't Foreclose On Our Future: Invest In Public Higher Education

Shirley Strum Kenny | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Education, U.S. Education, College Education, Barack Obama Congress, Obama, Higher Education, Stimulus Higher Education, Stimulus-Higher-Education, Barack Obama, Obama Address to Congress, US Higher Education, Politics News
Shirley Strum Kenny

Higher education is itself jeopardized by the recession, and its ability even to cope with the next few years is threatened.

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Wanted: More Science And Math Teachers In The US

Yahoo! News | Stacy Teicher Khadaroo | Posted 01.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Math Teachers, US Education, Education, Teachers, Teaching, The Giving Life, Living News

Jeremy Kennefick and Geoffrey Gailey are both new science teachers, one a career-changer, the other fresh out of graduate school. Both are teaching in...

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Like If I Hear "Like" One More Time I'm Gonna SCREAM!

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Language, Secretary of Education, U.S. Education, Jobs, Colleges, Bill Gates, Schools, Educational Decline, Persuasion, Communication, Living News
Kathleen Reardon

If how our children speak is an indication of how they think, our young people and the country are in deep trouble.

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Obama's Other Great Legacy: Death of the Beer Vote

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ignorance, Science, Education, Obama, Knowledge, US Education, Creatisonism, Evolution, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

About 20% of adults in the United States believe the sun orbits the earth. We come to these sad statistics because we lost our quest for intellectual excellence.

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High Schools Failing: Colleges Now Spend Billions On Remedial Classes For Freshmen

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Education, High School Education, College, College Students, US Education, Home News

It's a tough lesson for millions of students just now arriving on campus: even if you have a high school diploma, you may not be ready for college. I...

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States' Data Obscure How Few Finish High School

New York Times | SAM DILLON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: High School Graduation Rate, High School, US Education, High School Graduation, Politics News

When it comes to high school graduation rates, Mississippi keeps two sets of books. One team of statisticians working at the state education headquar...

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