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14 hours ago ago from fought the law.
Employers and career experts see a growing problem in American society — an abundance of college graduates, many burdened with tuition-loan debt, heading into the work world with a degree that doesn’t mean much anymore. The problem isn’t just a soft job market — it’s an oversupply of graduates. In 1973, a bachelor’s degree was more of a rarity, since just 47% of high school graduates went on to college. By October 2008, that number had ...
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13 hours ago ago from Schools Building Communities
Public Agenda recently released a study, underwritten by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, that took a deep look into the realities of college students these days. The basic question to be explored was, at a time when universities are receiving record numbers of applicants, why has the United States fallen to 10th place in college completion rates internationally? The study, With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them, examined the issue ...
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13 hours ago ago from ED.gov Blog
This past Tuesday, young people from across the nation had an opportunity to speak their minds about the state of American education in a lively hour-long “National Town Hall Meeting with Students” hosted by Secretary Arne Duncan. The live television broadcast and webcast allowed students to talk about their views on how we are preparing them for college and careers; about how they can get more involved in community service and civic ...
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15 hours ago ago from Best Practices Articles
These are tough times. Unemployment remains high, consumer confidence low and banks and global corporations are going bankrupt. And the job market might be in the worst condition in America since the Great Depression. Regardless of if you have a job, are out of work, or looking for a step up in your career, you should consider adult continuing education. What is adult continuing education? Strictly speaking, it simply means that as an , ...
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9 hours ago ago from UND Graduate School Blog
Success by Many Measures You Decide On a day that The Graduate School awards the University of North Dakota’s highest degrees to a most deserving group of students, we have much to be proud of. It is important that we celebrate their accomplishment of becoming a relatively small group of individuals to earn an advanced degree. Frequently, we lose sight of the significance of advanced degrees and focus only on statistical measures ...
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Career Education drops as accreditor questioned
6 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Career Education drops as accreditor questioned NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of for-profit education company Career Education Corp. fell for a second day Friday after new government scrutiny raised concern that the accreditation of one of its schools may be in jeopardy, potentially making it ineligible for federal student loans. The Department of Education Office of the Inspector General on Thursday recommended the government investigate whether ...
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7 hours ago ago from Media General - WNCT.com
Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This NC colleges hear about illegal immigrants policy NC colleges hear about illegal immigrants policy... RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The panel that oversees operations of North Carolina's community colleges hears from the public about plans to admit ...
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1 day ago ago from The New York Times
James S. Miller, the dean of admissions at Brown University , figured this could be the year that the frantic demand for admission under binding early-decision programs might begin to subside. After all, under such programs, admitted students cannot seek competing financial aid offers. Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times The chapel at Duke University. Duke is among the colleges that had an increase in applications for ...
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11 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
A college education must include learning how to read literature: professors of language and literature teach students how to garner the pleasures, the comforts, and the knowledge contained in books of all languages and times. The news reported in the New York Times today, December 18th, that college teaching positions in literature and language are down by thirty-seven percent is really bad news for everybody. It is bad news for recent PhDs ...
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9 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Some schools are dropping driver's ed to cut costs MIAMI (AP) -- Beginning driver Ashley Crawford grips the worn gray steering wheel and warily begins maneuvering the 1999 Ford Escort through a set of bright orange traffic cones outside Killian Senior High School. She considers herself lucky: Because of budget cuts, many schools around the country are leaving driver's ed by the side of the road. They are cutting back on behind-the-wheel ...
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